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.
- 2012
3rd International Sustainability Conference 2012
Hörisch, J. (Speaker)
29.08.2012 → 31.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
A utilitarian notion of responsibility for sustainability
Fünfgelt, J. (Speaker) & Baumgärtner, S. (Coauthor)
29.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ignorant or gatekeeper? What role do accountants play in the sustainability accounting practice?
Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)
29.08.2012 → 31.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Role-determined information needs of sustainability management control
Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)
29.08.2012 → 31.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
3rd European Congress of Conservation Biology - ECCB 2012
Brittain, C. (Speaker)
28.08.2012 → 01.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
32nd International Geographical Congress 2012
Vilsmaier, U. (Chair)
26.08.2012 → 30.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Transdisciplinary Evaluation of Alternative Adaptation Strategies Value-Tree Method as a Tool to Integrate Multiple Values of Science, Practice and the General Public into Decision-Making
Schmidt, A. (Speaker)
26.08.2012 → 30.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Konfliktreiche Begegnungen?!: Sozialwissenschaftliche Einwürfe zur Gewaltdiskussion im Fußball
Winands, M. (Lecturer)
16.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Ant Course 2012
Staab, M. (Participant)
06.08.2012 → 16.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Publications of environmental education programs reveal interdisciplinary boundaries
Pufal, G. (presenter)
05.08.2012 → 10.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Seed fate of common grassland species along an experimental plant diversity gradient
Pufal, G. (Speaker)
05.08.2012 → 10.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
13th International Rural Sociology Association (IRSA) XIII World Congress on Rural Sociology 2012
Challies, E. (Chair)
04.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
72nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Managment - AOM 2012
Zeyen, A. (Organiser), Beckmann, M. (Organiser), König, M. (Participant) & Frese, M. (Organiser)
04.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Interlinking Feed/Food Commodity Chains: Social and Environmental Impacts, and Challenges for Governance
Challies, E. (Speaker)
04.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
A Contingency Analysis of SUccess Definitions - Is Social Entrepreneurship REally Different?
Zeyen, A. (Speaker) & Beckmann, M. (Speaker)
03.08.2012 → 07.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
A Hayekian Perspective on Social Franchising: Scaling Social Entrepreneurship by Combining Small-Group and Big-Group Logics
Zeyen, A. (Speaker) & Beckmann, M. (Speaker)
03.08.2012 → 07.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Agrobiodiversity between conservation and use - examples from Germany
Mölders, T. (Speaker)
02.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Nature-Gender-Relations within the Agrarian Change - the Example of Agrobiodiversity
Burandt, A. (Speaker) & Mölders, T. (Speaker)
02.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Successes and failures of farm diversification processes – some evidence from two Polish regions
Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker)
02.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sustainable Land Use: Gender Perspectives - Session 61 A: Introduction “Gender – Culture – Nature
Katz, C. (Speaker)
02.08.2012 → 03.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research