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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  2. Vom Streit in den Dörfern: Regionale Konflikte um die Nutzung von Agro-Gentechnik

    Friedrich, B. (Speaker)

    13.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  3. Embedding sustainability in the curriculum: practicing what we teach 2013

    Mader, C. (Keynote speaker)

    12.03.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. 6. Wissenschaftliches Symposium „Supply Management“ des BME - 2013

    Harms, D. (Speaker)

    05.03.201306.03.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. Reflexive Multikriterielle Evaluation – Ein Instrument zur antizipativen Konfliktminderung bei Strategieentscheidungen im Küstenschutz

    Schmidt, A. (presenter)

    04.03.201306.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  6. Kinetics of biotic iron oxidation by Gallionella ferruginea spp. and catalytic activity of biogenic iron deposits

    Opel, O. (Speaker), Eggerichs, T. (Speaker), Otte, T. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)

    03.03.201308.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Leptothrix discophora: How bacterial MnO2 oxidises iron

    Eggerichs, T. (Speaker), Opel, O. (Speaker), Otte, T. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)

    03.03.201308.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Gender und Ressourcengerechtigkeit - Podiumsdiskussion

    Heilmann, S. (Panel participant)

    27.02.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  9. Einführung in SPSS: Computergestützte Auswertung statistischer Daten

    Hörisch, J. (Lecturer)

    25.02.201327.02.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  10. Tagung der Evangelischen Akademie Tutzing "Strategische Metalle für die Energiewende" - 2013

    Kümmerer, K. (presenter)

    25.02.201326.02.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. 16th Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network Conference - EMAN EU Conference 2013

    Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)

    20.02.201322.02.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  12. „Biologische Vielfalt“ als komplexes Thema der Kommunikation

    Adomßent, M. (Speaker)

    18.02.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  13. Offene Beteiligungsprozesse: Stadt- und Freiraumentwicklung mit Kindern und Jugendlichen

    Edelhoff, S. H. (Speaker)

    18.02.2013

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

  14. An Axiomatic Approach to Decision under Knightian Uncertainty

    Engler, J.-O. (Speaker) & Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker)

    15.02.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. Prima Klima+20 - 2013

    Burandt, S. (Keynote speaker)

    07.02.201308.02.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  16. Konstitution transdisziplinärer Forschungsfelder

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    02.02.201303.02.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  17. Transdisziplinäre Konstitution von Forschungsfeldern

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    02.02.201303.02.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  18. Rechtsextremismusprävention: Bildungsarbeit gegen rechts in der Mitte der Gesellschaft - 2013

    Offen, S. (Speaker)

    02.201312.2013

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