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
XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology of the International Rural Sociology Association - IRSA 2012
Gottschlich, D. (Organiser), Mölders, T. (Organiser), Gottschlich, D. (Participant), Mölders, T. (Participant), Szumelda, A. U. (Participant) & Burandt, A. (Participant)
02.08.2012 → 03.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Does resin represent a neglected component of bee ecology? A comparison between Old and New World bees.
Leonhardt, S. (Speaker)
08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Towards and interdisciplinary understanding of ecological novelty 2012
Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)
08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Inquiry-based Learning Environment to Welcome Diversity in Chemistry Classes: Vortrag mit Sandra Puddu & Anja Lembens
Abels, S. (Lecturer)
20.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Boon or Bane? Typing Speed in Online Negotiations
Höhne, B. (Speaker)
11.07.2012 → 14.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Never gonna give you up! Better gonna take you back? Negotiating Benefits and Burdens in Common Resource Negotiations
Höhne, B. (Speaker)
11.07.2012 → 14.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Wissenschaftliche Tagung „Das neue Recht der Kreislaufwirtschaft“ 2012
Schomerus, T. (Speaker)
09.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Global Sustainability Summer School 2012
Engler, J.-O. (Participant)
08.07.2012 → 21.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
28th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2012
Zeyen, A. (Speaker) & Beckmann, M. (Speaker)
04.07.2012 → 07.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
11th EABIS Annual Colloquium 2012
Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)
03.07.2012 → 04.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Innovation Potential for Sustainability Management Methods
Schaltegger, S. (Speaker), Hörisch, J. (Speaker), Herzig, C. (Speaker) & Klewitz, J. (Speaker)
02.07.2012 → 04.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
RGS – IBG DARG Conference 2012
Richter, S. (Speaker)
02.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Sustainable Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of Industries: The Case of the Apparel Industry
Hansen, E. G. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)
02.07.2012 → 04.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Science Slam im Wissenschaftsjahr - Zukunftsprojekt Erde 2012
Bolek, R. (Speaker)
30.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Abschlusskonferenz des Mercator Forschungsverbundes Innovatives Soziales Handeln – Social Entrepreneurship 2012
Beckmann, M. (Organiser)
28.06.2012 → 29.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Competencies for Sustainability – Does Gender play any Role?
Katz, C. (Speaker)
28.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
In the forest: doing gender by doing nature
Katz, C. (Speaker)
28.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Social Entrepreneurs as Evolutionary Agents in the German Institutional Landscape.
Beckmann, M. (Speaker)
28.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
19th Annual Conference EAERE 2012
Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker)
27.06.2012 → 30.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
proDUO: Job-Sharing for Postdoc and Higher Academic Employees: An Organizing Principle of the Human Resource Management of Science Institutions?
Birkner, S. (Speaker), Halberstadt, J. (Speaker) & Rehm, A. (Speaker)
27.06.2012 → 29.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research