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. 2013
  2. Farm Size, Environmental Risk and Risk Preferences: The Case of Namibian Commercial Cattle Farms

    Engler, J.-O. (Speaker)

    13.11.201316.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. "Sustainability Politics in Germany"

    Laws, N. (Oral presentation)

    13.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  4. Care, Commons und die Frage nach dem Guten Leben: Zur Kritik am Arbeitsbegriff aus feministischer Perspektive

    Gottschlich, D. (Speaker)

    08.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Tagung WOZU ARBEIT? Solidarische Ökonomien und Commons – neue Formen des Tuns für ein Gutes Leben - 2013

    Gottschlich, D. (Participant)

    08.11.201309.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. 5. Mitgliederversammlung des Forums für Genderkompetenz in Architektur Landschaft Planung - gender_archland 2013

    Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    07.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Artombo – Vermarktung von südafrikanischer Township-Kunst

    Halberstadt, J. (Speaker), Schuricht, M. (Speaker) & Greyling, J. (Speaker)

    07.11.201308.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Geld oder Nächstenliebe – Eine empirische Analyse zu sozialen Ursprüngen kommerzieller Geschäftsideen

    Halberstadt, J. (Speaker) & Schuster, C. L. (Speaker)

    07.11.201308.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Geschlechterverhältnisse und Nachhaltigkeit – Perspektiven für die Raumwissenschaften und -planung

    Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    07.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. Leibniz University Hanover (External organisation)

    Mölders, T. (Member)

    07.11.2013

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  11. Networking workshop Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht -HHG 2013

    Lüdecke, G. (Speaker)

    07.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  12. Sind Gründer-CEOs weniger anfällig für myopisches Verhalten?

    Schuster, C. L. (Speaker) & Halberstadt, J. (Speaker)

    07.11.201308.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  13. 1st International Conference on Beneficial Uses of Algal Biomass - ICBUAB 2013

    Pleißner, D. (presenter)

    05.11.201308.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  14. A mobile phone supported internet-based intervention for depressive symptoms in diabetes mellitus type 1 and type 2: design and preliminary results of a randomised controlled trial.

    Ebert, D. D. (Speaker), Berking, M. (Speaker), Lehr, D. (Speaker), Cuijpers, P. (Speaker), Riper, H. (Speaker), Nobis, S. (Speaker), Baumeister, H. (Speaker), Becker, A. (Speaker), Snoek, F. (Speaker) & Heber, E. (Speaker)

    04.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. Comorbid depression in diabetes mellitus (cost-)effectiveness of this web-based intervention & mobile phone support

    Ebert, D. D. (Speaker), Berking, M. (Speaker), Lehr, D. (Speaker), Cuijpers, P. (Speaker), Riper, H. (Speaker), Nobis, S. (Speaker), Baumeister, H. (Speaker), Becker, A. (Speaker) & Snoek, F. (Speaker)

    04.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  16. Efficacy of web-based treatment of major depressive disorder: results from a rater blind randomized controlled trial

    Ebert, D. D. (Speaker), Sieland, B. (Speaker), Berking, M. (Speaker), Lehr, D. (Speaker), Boß, L. (Speaker), Reins, J. A. (Speaker), Cuijpers, P. (Speaker), Buntrock, C. (Speaker) & Riper, H. (Speaker)

    04.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  17. Preliminary results of a web-based and mobile stress-management intervention for employees

    Heber, E. (Speaker), Ebert, D. D. (Speaker), Berking, M. (Speaker), Lehr, D. (Speaker), Riper, H. (Speaker) & Nobis, S. (Speaker)

    04.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  18. Wissenschaftskongress der Pluralen Ökonomik - 2013

    Baumgärtner, S. (presenter)

    01.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  19. Trends in sustainability management: Progress and standstill

    Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    30.10.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch