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
Fachtagung „Information, Partizipation, Rechtsschutz: Neue Probleme und Konzepte für die Bürgerbeteiligung“ 2012
Schomerus, T. (Speaker)
09.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference Transdisciplinary Intercultural Ecological Research for Sustainability - TIERS 2012
Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)
08.06.2012 → 10.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Nachhaltigkeit in Hochschulbildung und Forschung
Adomßent, M. (Lecturer)
08.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
12th Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management - EURAM 2012
Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)
06.06.2012 → 08.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Innovation in sustainable supply chains – A reflection on resources and SME collaboration with supply chain stakeholders
Harms, D. (Speaker)
06.06.2012 → 08.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Prima Conferencia Internacional “Alternativas de desarrollo sostenible: cómo cambiar el paradigma social con énfasis en la centralidad del ser humano y la naturaleza” 2012
Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)
06.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Educación y comunicación para sociedades sustentables
Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)
05.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Conflicts on shaping societies' relations to nature on a local level. The example of agricultural biotechnology
Friedrich, B. (Speaker)
03.06.2012 → 07.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Ramsey discounting of ecosystem services
Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker), Klein, A.-M. (Speaker), Thiel, D. (Speaker) & Winkler, K. (Speaker)
03.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
VI ARALIG PhD-course 2012
Friedrich, B. (Participant)
03.06.2012 → 07.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
3rd International Symposium on Sustainable Development - ISSD 2012
Kümmerer, K. (Keynote speaker)
31.05.2012 → 01.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Euro 2012: Im Osten geht die Sonne auf - und der Fußball unter?: Fankultur in Polen und der Ukraine zwischen Gewalt, Politik und neuen Ufern
Winands, M. (Lecturer)
31.05.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Die Neuererfindung des Ökonomischen: Beitrag ökologischer Ökonomik zur Debatte um Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Hofmeister, S. (Speaker)
30.05.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Environmental Management Accounting. Purposes, Patterns, Paths
Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)
30.05.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Transdisciplinary Research in Corporate Sustainability. Vision, Verdict, Value
Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)
29.05.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The RMIT Accounting for Sustainability Conference 2012
Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)
28.05.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
22nd SETAC Europe Annual Meeting - SETAC 2012
Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)
22.05.2012 → 24.05.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Workshop mit Praxispartnern "Regionale Esskultur Lüneburger Heide"
Burandt, A. (Organiser)
22.05.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Including students with special needs in inquiry-based science education.: Vortrag auf dem 21st Symposium on Chemistry and Science Education “Issues of Heterogeneity and Cultural Diversity in Science Education and Science Education Research “
Abels, S. (Lecturer)
19.05.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Forschungskolloquium am Institut für Soziologie an der Jagiellonen Universität 2012
Mölders, T. (Participant)
18.05.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research