School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Research School
- Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)
- Institute of Ecology
- Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- Institute of Sustainability Governance
- Institute of Sustainability Material Flows and Circularity
- Institute of Sustainability Psychology
- Institute of Sustainable Chemistry
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)
- Sustainability Education and Transdisciplinary Research Institute
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.
- 2014
From equal opportunity officers to female social entrepreneurs - An analysis of gender equality work at universities in Lower Saxony, Germany
Schuster, C. L. (Speaker), Halberstadt, J. (Speaker), Schank, C. (Speaker) & Petersen, M. (Speaker)
19.08.2014 → 21.08.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Trans Atlantic Sustainability Seminar - TASS 2014
Schomerus, T. (Speaker)
14.08.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
99th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America - ESA 2014
Bolek, R. (Coauthor)
13.08.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Biannual Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics - ISEE 2014
Hussain, A. M. T. (presenter)
13.08.2014 → 15.08.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Summer School in Sustainability Economics: Intergenerational Equity and Efficiency under Uncertainty
Hussain, A. M. T. (Participant)
04.08.2014 → 07.08.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Journal of Technology Innovations in Renewable Energy (Journal)
Pleißner, D. (Reviewer)
01.08.2014 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Räume transdisziplinären Lehrens und Forschens schaffen
Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)
31.07.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Nachhaltigkeit in der Hochschule - Sustainability at the University
Fischer, D. (Lecturer)
26.07.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Methods workshop: A social science perspective on coastal issues
Lüdecke, G. (Speaker)
24.07.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
„Empirische Forschung zur Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung – Themen, Methoden und Trends”
Sundermann, A. (Participant)
21.07.2014 → 29.07.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
17th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology in Amsterdam, the Netherlands - EASP 2014
Majer, J. M. (presenter)
09.07.2014 → 12.07.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Wissensintegration und Wissenstransfer in der transdisziplinären Nachhaltigkeitsforschung: Das Beispiel Global TraPs
Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)
08.07.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Gruenes Wissen.NET: Ein Angebot der Wissenschaftskommunikation im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit und Globaler Wandel
Fischer, D. (Speaker)
05.07.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
5. Allgemeinen Erfahrungsaustausch „Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit“ des Deutschen Sparkassen- und Giroverbands 2014
Schomerus, T. (Speaker)
04.07.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
7th European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology and the Biobased Economy - EFIB 2014
Pleißner, D. (Participant)
01.07.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Schul- und Qualitätsentwicklung im Kontext von Mobilität und Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE)
Fischer, D. (Lecturer)
01.07.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
The Best of the Rest
Pleißner, D. (presenter)
01.07.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Mental Contrasting and Transfer of Energuzation
Sevincer, T. (Speaker) & Oettingen, G. (Coauthor)
07.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Psychophysiology of Self-Regulation
Sevincer, T. (Speaker) & Oettingen, G. (Coauthor)
07.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The botherder's lure and the figure of the pirate: trespassing enclosures and tweaking affordances
Leistert, O. (Speaker)
25.06.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research