Organisation profile

Sustainability has many facets. Inter- and transdisciplinary research and teaching characterize the School of Sustainability. Scientists in our research projects work together in the laboratory, on the heath, in the grassland, in the classroom, with the city administration, with farmers, with non-governmental organizations, with companies, with students in the lecture hall and of course at their desks.

Furthermore, we work with regional and national political actors, e.g. ministries, as well as international organizations, e.g. UNEP, UNESCO, EU. We are part of national and international bodies, e.g. sustainability advisory boards of companies, member of the German Sustainability Award, World Biodiversity Council (IPBES), in order to contribute to social change with scientific findings.

Main research areas

Vision
Sustainability science investigates on a theoretical, conceptual and empirical level how to promote sustainable development and how to find and implement effective solutions for current social and ecological challenges. The aim is to create a more sustainable future.

Sustainability researchers are called upon to take responsibility for their research, which is anchored in existing scientific knowledge and methods and serves to make the world a better place for everyone.

Mission
We promote change towards a sustainable future by developing theories, concepts and practices of inclusive education for sustainability, research, governance and management.

We acknowledge the diversity and dynamics of values, norms and behaviour and contribute with transdisciplinary methods to ensuring that tensions and differences between different disciplines, methods, topics and standards are fruitfully taken up and used with productive compromises and further developments towards sustainable development.

Principles
The School of Sustainability is guided by the normative concepts of ecological system integrity and social and economic justice.

Ecological system integrity refers to the safeguarding of life-support systems, as well as the maintenance of the well-being of life on Earth.

With social and economic justice we strive for a world in which all people can fulfil their potential without endangering system integrity and the well-being of others.

Information about the School
The School of Sustainability includes...
... ca. 25 professors
... ca. 100 research assistants
... ca. 1000 students in Bachelor and Master courses

In various inter- and transdisciplinary projects we are constantly researching and working together on changes and solutions for current challenges.

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  1. 2012
  2. Seed fate of common grassland species along an experimental plant diversity gradient

    Pufal, G. (Speaker)

    05.08.201210.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. 13th International Rural Sociology Association (IRSA) XIII World Congress on Rural Sociology 2012

    Challies, E. (Chair)

    04.08.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. 72nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Managment - AOM 2012

    Zeyen, A. (Organiser), Beckmann, M. (Organiser), König, M. (Participant) & Frese, M. (Organiser)

    04.08.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  5. Interlinking Feed/Food Commodity Chains: Social and Environmental Impacts, and Challenges for Governance

    Challies, E. (Speaker)

    04.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. A Contingency Analysis of SUccess Definitions - Is Social Entrepreneurship REally Different?

    Zeyen, A. (Speaker) & Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    03.08.201207.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. A Hayekian Perspective on Social Franchising: Scaling Social Entrepreneurship by Combining Small-Group and Big-Group Logics

    Zeyen, A. (Speaker) & Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    03.08.201207.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Agrobiodiversity between conservation and use - examples from Germany

    Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    02.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Nature-Gender-Relations within the Agrarian Change - the Example of Agrobiodiversity

    Burandt, A. (Speaker) & Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    02.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Successes and failures of farm diversification processes – some evidence from two Polish regions

    Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker)

    02.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Sustainable Land Use: Gender Perspectives - Session 61 A: Introduction “Gender – Culture – Nature

    Katz, C. (Speaker)

    02.08.201203.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology of the International Rural Sociology Association - IRSA 2012

    Gottschlich, D. (Organiser), Mölders, T. (Organiser), Gottschlich, D. (Participant), Mölders, T. (Participant), Szumelda, A. U. (Participant) & Burandt, A. (Participant)

    02.08.201203.08.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  13. Does resin represent a neglected component of bee ecology? A comparison between Old and New World bees.

    Leonhardt, S. (Speaker)

    08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. Towards and interdisciplinary understanding of ecological novelty 2012

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)

    08.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  15. Boon or Bane? Typing Speed in Online Negotiations

    Höhne, B. (Speaker)

    11.07.201214.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  16. Never gonna give you up! Better gonna take you back? Negotiating Benefits and Burdens in Common Resource Negotiations

    Höhne, B. (Speaker)

    11.07.201214.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  17. Wissenschaftliche Tagung „Das neue Recht der Kreislaufwirtschaft“ 2012

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    09.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. The Global Sustainability Summer School 2012

    Engler, J.-O. (Participant)

    08.07.201221.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  19. 28th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2012

    Zeyen, A. (Speaker) & Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    04.07.201207.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  20. 11th EABIS Annual Colloquium 2012

    Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    03.07.201204.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  21. Innovation Potential for Sustainability Management Methods

    Schaltegger, S. (Speaker), Hörisch, J. (Speaker), Herzig, C. (Speaker) & Klewitz, J. (Speaker)

    02.07.201204.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  22. RGS – IBG DARG Conference 2012

    Richter, S. (Speaker)

    02.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  23. Sustainable Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of Industries: The Case of the Apparel Industry

    Hansen, E. G. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    02.07.201204.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  24. Science Slam im Wissenschaftsjahr - Zukunftsprojekt Erde 2012

    Bolek, R. (Speaker)

    30.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  25. Abschlusskonferenz des Mercator Forschungsverbundes Innovatives Soziales Handeln – Social Entrepreneurship 2012

    Beckmann, M. (Organiser)

    28.06.201229.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  26. Competencies for Sustainability – Does Gender play any Role?

    Katz, C. (Speaker)

    28.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  27. In the forest: doing gender by doing nature

    Katz, C. (Speaker)

    28.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  28. Social Entrepreneurs as Evolutionary Agents in the German Institutional Landscape.

    Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    28.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  29. 19th Annual Conference EAERE 2012

    Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker)

    27.06.201230.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  30. proDUO: Job-Sharing for Postdoc and Higher Academic Employees: An Organizing Principle of the Human Resource Management of Science Institutions?

    Birkner, S. (Speaker), Halberstadt, J. (Speaker) & Rehm, A. (Speaker)

    27.06.201229.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  31. Referent: Herausforderungen an das Projektmanagement – Vom 7. Forschungsrahmen-programm zu Horizon 2020

    Olsson, O. (Panel participant)

    27.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  32. 6th European Conference on Positive Psychology - ECPP 2012

    Peifer, C. (Speaker)

    26.06.201229.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  33. Oikos - Theis Workshop

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    26.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  34. Thor Heyerdahl Summer School: Global Environmental Governance 2012

    Stumpf, K. H. (Participant)

    25.06.201206.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  35. Iron Oxidizing Bacteria: Influence of Calcium and Magnesium on Growth Rates

    Eggerichs, T. (Speaker), Jerofke, S. (Speaker), Otte, T. (Speaker), Opel, O. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)

    24.06.201229.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  36. ARL-Kongress 2012

    Hofmeister, S. (Moderator)

    21.06.201222.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  37. Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Stoltenberg, U. (Lecturer)

    19.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsEducation

  38. Was ist nachhaltige Entwicklung?

    Adomßent, M. (Speaker)

    17.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  39. 3rd International Conference on Implications of GM Crop Cultivation at Large Spatial Scales - GMLS-III 2012

    Friedrich, B. (Participant) & Sulmowski, J. A. (Participant)

    15.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  40. Jahrestagung des Zentrums für Lehrerbildung der Universität Kassel 2012

    Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)

    15.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  41. 13. Österreichischer Klimatag 2012

    Vilsmaier, U. (presenter)

    14.06.201215.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  42. 13th Annual Conference of the Association for Public Economic Theory - PET12

    Hoberg, N. (presenter)

    12.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  43. Qualitative Forschung – ein Überblick.

    Abels, S. (Lecturer)

    12.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  44. Risk Management: An Econometric Analysis of Risk in Energy Market

    Fianu, E. S. (Speaker)

    12.06.201215.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  45. 2nd International Workshop on Renewable Energy 2012

    Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)

    11.06.201215.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  46. The 18th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping - OHBM 2012

    Zhang, K. (Speaker), Aust, S. (Speaker), Grimm, S. (Speaker) & Bajbouj, M. (Speaker)

    10.06.201214.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  47. 2. Hofgeismarer Forum für Umweltrecht und Umweltpolitik 2012

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    09.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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