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
Implementing Sustainability Strategies Through Accounting Controls: An Exploration of Practices in Seven Multinational Corporations
Crutzen, N. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)
06.05.2013 → 08.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
"Global Environmental Justice”: A Constructive Exchange between Political Philosophy and Social Science - 2013
Stumpf, K. H. (Speaker)
26.04.2013 → 27.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Leuphana auf dem Weg – Nachhaltigkeit als Schlüsselprinzip eines umfassend konzipierten Studien- und Universitätsmodells
Adomßent, M. (Speaker)
23.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Klimapolitik: nachhaltig und geschlechtergerecht?
Heilmann, S. (presenter)
20.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Zur Gestaltungskraft von Asymmetrie und Abhängigkeit - der analytische Beitrag einer Theorie des Sorgens zur Vorsorge
Mölders, T. (Speaker)
20.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
„Zwischen den Zeiten“ – ein feministischer Kommentar
Mölders, T. (Speaker)
20.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Das Geschlecht der Zeit - 2013
Hofmeister, S. (Organiser)
19.04.2013 → 21.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Das Geschlecht der Zeit. Nachhaltigkeit – Geschlechterverhältnisse – Zeitvielfalt? - 2013
Mölders, T. (Participant)
19.04.2013 → 21.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung der Evangelischen Akademie Tutzing "Das Geschlecht der Zeit" - 2013
Hofmeister, S. (Participant)
19.04.2013 → 21.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung der Evangelischen AkadeNachhaltigkeit & Gender - neue Fragen und Herausforderungenmie Tutzing "Das Geschlecht der Zeit" - 2013
Katz, C. (Speaker)
19.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Wirtschaftsverfassungs- und Wirtschaftsverwaltungsrecht
Schomerus, T. (Lecturer)
19.04.2013 → 20.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
10th ITdNet Meeting - 2013
Vilsmaier, U. (Participant)
11.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Conference on Transdisciplinary Research and Modeling - 2013
Lutz, L. M. (Participant)
10.04.2013 → 11.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference on Transdisciplinary Research and Modelling - 2013
Vilsmaier, U. (Chair)
10.04.2013 → 11.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Including Justice in Institutional Analysis - How Do Frameworks for Institutional Analysis Consider Ideas of Justice?
Stumpf, K. (Speaker), Hanger, S. (Coauthor) & da Fonseca, I. F. (Coauthor)
10.04.2013 → 13.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Linke Perspektiven. Bewertung der Enquete-Kommission "Wachstum, Wohlstand, Lebensqualität" - 2013
Gottschlich, D. (Participant)
10.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
„Wohlstand aus feministischer Perspektive: Anforderungen an linke Politik“
Gottschlich, D. (Speaker)
10.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Western Closure of the Corinth Rift : Stratigraphy and structure of the Lakka fault block
Palyvos, N. (Speaker), Ford, M. (Coauthor), Mancini, M. (Coauthor), Esu, D. (Coauthor), Girotti, O. (Coauthor) & Urban, B. (Coauthor)
07.04.2013 → 12.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Graduate School (Organisational unit)
Velten, S. (Member)
01.04.2013 → 15.12.2014Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Methoden der Zusammenarbeit in Nachhaltigkeitsprojekten
Mader, C. (Speaker)
23.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer