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. Implementing Sustainability Strategies Through Accounting Controls: An Exploration of Practices in Seven Multinational Corporations

    Crutzen, N. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    06.05.201308.05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. "Global Environmental Justice”: A Constructive Exchange between Political Philosophy and Social Science - 2013

    Stumpf, K. H. (Speaker)

    26.04.201327.04.2013

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

  4. Klimapolitik: nachhaltig und geschlechtergerecht?

    Heilmann, S. (presenter)

    20.04.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  5. Zur Gestaltungskraft von Asymmetrie und Abhängigkeit - der analytische Beitrag einer Theorie des Sorgens zur Vorsorge

    Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    20.04.2013

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

  6. „Zwischen den Zeiten“ – ein feministischer Kommentar

    Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    20.04.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Das Geschlecht der Zeit - 2013

    Hofmeister, S. (Organiser)

    19.04.201321.04.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Das Geschlecht der Zeit. Nachhaltigkeit – Geschlechterverhältnisse – Zeitvielfalt? - 2013

    Mölders, T. (Participant)

    19.04.201321.04.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Tagung der Evangelischen Akademie Tutzing "Das Geschlecht der Zeit" - 2013

    Hofmeister, S. (Participant)

    19.04.201321.04.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Wirtschaftsverfassungs- und Wirtschaftsverwaltungsrecht

    Schomerus, T. (Lecturer)

    19.04.201320.04.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  11. 10th ITdNet Meeting - 2013

    Vilsmaier, U. (Participant)

    11.04.2013

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

  12. Conference on Transdisciplinary Research and Modeling - 2013

    Lutz, L. M. (Participant)

    10.04.201311.04.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  13. Conference on Transdisciplinary Research and Modelling - 2013

    Vilsmaier, U. (Chair)

    10.04.201311.04.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  14. 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)

    10.04.201313.04.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. Linke Perspektiven. Bewertung der Enquete-Kommission "Wachstum, Wohlstand, Lebensqualität" - 2013

    Gottschlich, D. (Participant)

    10.04.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  16. „Wohlstand aus feministischer Perspektive: Anforderungen an linke Politik“

    Gottschlich, D. (Speaker)

    10.04.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  17. 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)

    07.04.201312.04.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  18. Graduate School (Organisational unit)

    Velten, S. (Member)

    01.04.201315.12.2014

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  19. Methoden der Zusammenarbeit in Nachhaltigkeitsprojekten

    Mader, C. (Speaker)

    23.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer