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. 2011
  2. Sustainability and internal supply chain management – A conceptual approach to intra-organisational knowledge transfer

    Harms, D. (Speaker)

    12.09.201114.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Sustainability and Internal Supply Chain Management: A Conceptual Approach to Intra-Organisational Knowledge Transfer

    Harms, D. (Speaker)

    12.09.201114.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Transdisciplinary Evaluation of Different Coastal Adaptation Strategies: Integrating Regional Perceptions of Scientists, Practitioners and the Public

    Schmidt, A. (Speaker)

    12.09.201115.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Transdisciplinary Evaluation of Different Coastal Adaptation Strategies: Integrating Regional Perceptions of Scientists, Practitioners and the Public

    Schmidt, A. (presenter)

    12.09.201115.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  6. Personal norms of sustainability and their consequences in ecological-economic systems under uncertainty – The case of rangeland management in semi-arid regions

    Olbrich, R. (Speaker), Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker) & Quaas, M. F. (Speaker)

    11.09.201113.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Resilience of natural-resource-dependent economies

    Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker), Quaas, M. F. (Speaker) & van Soest, D. P. (Speaker)

    11.09.201113.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Risk preferences under heterogeneous environmental risk

    Olbrich, R. (Speaker), Quaas, M. F. (Speaker), Hänsler, A. (Speaker) & Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker)

    11.09.201113.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Agrobiodiversity between Protection and Use – the Example of Rural Development in Germany

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

    10.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. 43rd European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting - 2011

    Peifer, C. (presenter)

    09.09.201112.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. Responses of herbivory and pollinators to grassland management and plant diversity

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker) & Hudewenz, A. (Speaker)

    09.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. Seed dispersal and predation: Interactions, ecosystem functions and services

    Pufal, G. (Speaker)

    08.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  13. Why is the rare dispersal mechanism hygrochasy so common around the world?

    Pufal, G. (Speaker)

    08.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  14. Young LOICZ Forum 2011

    Schmidt, A. (presenter)

    08.09.201115.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. 10th Conference of the European Sociological Association - ESA 2011

    Burandt, A. (Participant)

    07.09.201110.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. 10th Conference of the European Sociological Association - ESA 2011

    Gottschlich, D. (Participant)

    07.09.201110.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  17. 23rd International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research - CSEAR 2011

    Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)

    07.09.201109.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. 41st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland - 2011

    Brandt, P. (Coauthor)

    07.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  19. Landscape factors affecting Parakeet damage to sunflower fields in Israel.

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)

    07.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  20. The climate niche of a mountain carabid: consequences under climate change

    Brandt, P. (Speaker) & von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)

    07.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  21. The role of networked publics for participatory sustainability communication

    Schulz, D. (Speaker)

    07.09.201110.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  22. Trap-nesting insects' interactions in an urban-rural gradient

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)

    07.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  23. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie - GFÖ-Tagung 2011

    Klein, A.-M. (presenter)

    07.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  24. Zwischen Groß- und Kleingruppenlogik: Social Franchising aus einer Hayekianischen Perspektive

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

    07.09.201109.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  25. Comunicación de Sostenibilidad

    Rieckmann, M. (Panel participant)

    06.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  26. Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall Landesverbandstagung Nord DWA 2011

    Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)

    06.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  27. Séminaire franco-allemand de jeunes chercheurs du Moulin d’Andé 2011

    Friedrich, B. (Participant)

    06.09.201110.09.2011

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

  28. 41st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland - 2011

    Hudewenz, A. (Participant)

    05.09.201109.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  29. Genetic diversity and extent of hybridization of invasive Ulmus pumila.

    von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)

    05.09.201108.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  30. Konzepte der Gesellschaftstheorie - Edmund Phelps 2011

    Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    05.09.201107.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  31. The ecological consequences of Chernobyl

    Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)

    05.09.201107.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  32. Trap-nesting insects´ interactions in an urban-rural gradient

    Pereira Peixoto, M. H. (Speaker)

    05.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  33. Correlation Patterns of PAHs and Heterocyclic PAHs in Sediment Samples from Influence of Two Tar-Contaminated Sites on Adjacent Rivers: Quantitation of PAHs, Heterocyclic PAHs and Phenols in the Aqueous Phase

    Mänz, J. S. (Speaker), Gellersen, J. (Speaker), Siemers, A.-K. (Speaker), Steffen, D. (Speaker), Palm, W.-U. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)

    04.09.201108.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  34. Correlation Patterns of PAHs and Heterocyclic PAHs in Sediment Samples from Northern Germany - Point Sources and Diffuse Immissions

    Palm, W.-U. (Speaker), Siemers, A.-K. (Speaker), Mänz, J. S. (Speaker), Steffen, D. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)

    04.09.201108.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  35. Polare PAK-Derivate – Analytik und Vorkommen von Azaarenen in Fließgewässern

    Tangermann, L. (Speaker), Mänz, J. S. (Speaker), Palm, W.-U. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)

    04.09.201107.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  36. Ubiquitous Distribution of Heterocyclic PAHs in the Large River Systems of Northern Germany

    Siemers, A.-K. (Speaker), Mänz, J. S. (Speaker), Steffen, D. (Speaker), Palm, W.-U. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)

    04.09.201108.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  37. A quantiative review of the ecological impacts of the chernobyl disaster

    von Wehrden, H. (presenter)

    09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  38. Global warming triggers loss of genetic diversity of Z. exulans populations in Euro-pean high mountain systems

    von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)

    09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  39. Growth and competition of tree saplings of subtropical China

    von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)

    09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  40. The growing importance of sustainability in European markets and the role of universities in sustainability-oriented management education

    Hansen, E. G. (Speaker)

    31.08.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  41. Workshop Innovationsverbund Nachhaltiger Mittelstand - 2011

    Klewitz, J. (Moderator)

    31.08.2011

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

  42. 3rd EU-China River Basin Governance Research Network Workshop - RiBaGo 2011

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    30.08.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  43. Konstellationsanalyse - Ein interdisziplinäres Brückenkonzept 2011

    Burandt, S. (Participant)

    29.08.2011

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

  44. 1. Summer School Wissenschaft kommunizieren im Haus der Wissenschaft Braunschweig - 2011

    Schmidt, A. (Participant)

    24.08.201126.08.2011

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

  45. Multifunctionality in EU´s Common Agricultural Policy between Competitiveness and Sustainability

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

    23.08.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  46. Working in regional agro-food networks – strengthening local food systems through cooperation

    Burandt, A. (Speaker)

    23.08.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  47. Rural Gender Relations and Sustainable Development – Theoretical Remarks and Empirical Findings on Feminization Trends

    Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    22.08.201125.08.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  48. The debate on the future of small individual farms in Poland

    Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker), Lang, F. J. (Speaker) & Thiem, A. (Speaker)

    22.08.201125.08.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  49. XXIV Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology - 2011

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

    22.08.201125.08.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  50. 6th International Conference of Critical Geography - ICCG 2011

    Friedrich, B. (Participant) & Gottschlich, D. (Participant)

    16.08.201120.08.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer