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.
- 2013
BIT's 2nd Annual International Congress of Algae - AICA 2013
Pleißner, D. (Chair)
01.08.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
BIT's 2nd Annual International Congress of Algae - AICA 2013
Pleißner, D. (Speaker)
01.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Erdgasgewinnung durch "Fracking": Erschließung unkonventioneller Lagerstätten durch„Hydraulic Fracturing“
Olsson, O. (Oral presentation)
31.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Rethinking economy, nature use and development: Caring as a socio-ecological concept for sustainability and gender justice
Katz, C. (Speaker) & Gottschlich, D. (Speaker)
31.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Workshop zur Konstituierung des Instituts für transdisziplinäre Sozialwissenschaft der Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe -2013
Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)
31.07.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Is small beautiful? The case of small-scale farming in Poland, the CAP and rural resilience
Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker)
30.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
25th Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology - ESRS 2013
Szumelda, A. U. (Participant)
29.07.2013 → 01.08.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
25th Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology - ESRS 2013
Gottschlich, D. (Organiser)
29.07.2013 → 01.08.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Competencies for sustainable development of rural areas need the integration of Gender
Thiem, A. (Speaker) & Katz, C. (Speaker)
29.07.2013 → 01.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Representing Future Generations Today
Rose, M. (Speaker)
29.07.2013 → 10.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
17th Annual Conference of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association - APRIA 2013
Engler, J.-O. (Speaker) & Engler, J.-O. (presenter)
28.07.2013 → 31.07.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Perform to Disclose or Disclose to Perform: Which Drives Which?
Qian, W. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)
26.07.2013 → 28.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Vom schwierigen Vergnügen Nachhaltigkeit zu kommunizieren
Adomßent, M. (Speaker)
17.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Zwischenbilanztagung der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz-Projekt "nexus" - HRK nexus 2013
Fischer, D. (Speaker)
15.07.2013 → 16.07.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference of the Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network - EMAN Asia-Pacific 2013
Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)
14.07.2013 → 15.07.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
2013 Retreat of the Sustainability Economics Group
Engler, J.-O. (Speaker)
08.07.2013 → 09.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
The Role and Use of Environmental Management Accounting for Supply Chains: An explorative Study
Herzig, C. (Speaker), Viere, T. (Speaker), Schaltegger, S. (Speaker) & Burritt, R. L. (Speaker)
08.07.2013 → 09.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Post Conference Worskhop Pharmaceutical residues - 2013
Weiss, J. (Speaker), Kümmerer, K. (Speaker), Bolek, R. (Speaker), Boireau, V. (Speaker), Roig, B. (Speaker) & Lamoree, M. (Speaker)
05.07.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Value Trade-offs and Efficiency
Hoberg, N. (Speaker)
05.07.2013 → 07.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Politics of Sustainability Indicators in Rhineland-Palatinate: A Case Study
Rose, M. (Speaker)
03.07.2013 → 05.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research