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. 2016
  2. Neon ist doch eine Farbe!: Ein Unterrichtsgespräch über den Atombau

    Abels, S. (Speaker), Heidinger, C. (Speaker), Koliander, B. (Speaker) & Plotz, T. (Speaker)

    05.09.201608.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Netzwerk inklusiver naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht

    Abels, S. (Speaker), Menthe, J. (Speaker), Blumberg, E. (Speaker), Fromme, T. (Speaker), Marohn, A. (Speaker) & Rott, L. (Speaker)

    05.09.201608.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Network of Early-Career Sustainable Scientists and Engineers (External organisation)

    Pleißner, D. (Member)

    01.09.201631.08.2017

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsTransfer

  5. Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology e.V. (External organisation)

    Pleißner, D. (Member)

    01.09.2016

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsTransfer

  6. Transformative Research and Development in Urban and Regional Environments

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    01.09.201603.09.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Transforming Well-Being in Wuppertal: Conditions and Constraints

    Rose, M. (Speaker) & Maibaum, K. (Speaker)

    01.09.201603.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  8. Alkohol-Myopie und Glückspiel: Ein hilfreiches Getränk? [Alcohol-myopia and gambling: a useful beverage?]

    Wagner, G. (Speaker), Sevincer, T. (Coauthor) & Oettingen, G. (Coauthor)

    09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Ego-Depletion und Mentale Kontrastierung [ego depletion and mental contrasting]

    Sevincer, T. (Speaker) & Oettingen, G. (Coauthor)

    09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Governance scenarios for ecological and social goals in agricultural landscapes

    Schaal, T. (presenter)

    30.08.201602.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  11. 5th International EcoSummit Congress (EcoSummit 2016)

    Weidlich, E. W. A. (presenter)

    29.08.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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  1. Intimästhetik bei Cis-Frauen
  2. The renewable energy sector in Afghanistan
  3. Deine Augen, meine Sterne
  4. Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung
  5. Rezension zu Christoph Weischer: Sozialforschung. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft (Konstanz) 2007. 415 Seiten
  6. Themenheft "Inklusion"
  7. Schreiben unter Bedingungen von Mehrsprachigkeit
  8. Archaeologies of Contemporary Art: Negativity, Inoperativity, Désœuvrement
  9. Die Tradition der Pädagogik und die Selbstkritik der Moderne
  10. Recent trends in green and sustainable chemistry
  11. Die Fallstudie: Produktions- und Absatzplanung
  12. Gemeinschaft in Bildern
  13. Sprache und Sprechen in der Schule
  14. System- und handlungstheoretische Überlegungen zur Führung von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen
  15. Gobernanza global y evolución de las energías renovables en el sur
  16. Company formation
  17. Sabine Ritter: Facetten der Sarah Bartmann.
  18. Buechtemann, Christoph F. (ed.): Employment Security and Labor Market Behavior. Interdisciplinary Approaches and International Evidence, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1993.512 pp. $68.00. ISBN 0-87546-188-3.
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  20. Charakteristika von innovativen MitarbeiterInnen
  21. Werkzeug und Verfahren zur Bearbeitung eines Werkstückes aus einem harten Material
  22. Vom Integrated Coastal Zone Management zum Coastal Energy Management
  23. The German Capital Markets Model Case Act (KapMuG): a European role model for increasing the efficiency of capital markets?
  24. Verhaltenswissenschaftliche Aspekte im Supply Chain Management
  25. EuGH: Verbot unautorisierten Streamings durch fremdes Unternehmen
  26. Gesellschaft in Stein gemeißelt
  27. Harald Schumann/Christiane Grefe, Der globale Countdown. Gerechtigkeit oder Selbstzerstörung – Die Zukunft der Globalisierung, Köln (Kiepenheuer & Witsch), 2008
  28. Trade Wars
  29. Auswirkungen der EU-Integration auf die deutsche Energieversorgung
  30. Blood triggered corrosion of magnesium alloys
  31. Präferenzen und Prädiktoren für umweltschonendes Verhalten von Urlaubern
  32. Der Jugend-Demografie-Dialog: Jugendbeteiligung als Beitrag zur Regionalentwicklung - ein Projekt in vier Modelllandkreisen