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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Publications

  1. Personalmanagement im Tourismus
  2. § 290 Verzinsung des Wertersatzes
  3. Rolling Out Corporate Sustainability Accounting
  4. Der Regierungsentwurf für ein Bilanzrechtsmodernisierungsgesetz
  5. Forschungsbedarfe, Entwicklungsaufgaben und Empfehlungen
  6. Ein Architekt der Sinnlichkeit
  7. Education/Social Pedagogy
  8. Abweichendes Verhalten von Kindern und Jugendlichen
  9. Radical Desires
  10. Pollen und Sporen – Schlüssel zur Vegetation des Eiszeitalters
  11. Kulturfreie Bilder
  12. Russian maritime strategy since the Ukrainian crisis
  13. Die nachträgliche Entdeckung der Tiefenzeit während eines Bootsausflugs an der schottischen Ostküste
  14. Didaktisch optimierter Einsatz Neuer Medien im naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht
  15. Welterbetourismus – ein interkulturelles Medium ?
  16. Why green and sustainable pharmacy?
  17. Recht, Fakten und Versicherungen, Teil 2
  18. Typisch 'Englisch', typisch 'Deutsch'? Engländer in der deutschsprachigen und Deutsche in der britischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur.
  19. Transdisziplinäre Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften
  20. Pädagogisches Unterrichtswissen – bildungswissenschaftliches Wissen
  21. Architekt-Amateur-Autodidakt
  22. Leena Krohn
  23. Mitarbeiter, freier
  24. Nachhaltigkeitsdenken und Nachhaltigkeitsreden
  25. Steuern in der internationalen Unternehmenspraxis
  26. Umbrüche gestalten 2014 bis 2019 gestaltete Umbrüche?
  27. Long-term stream invertebrate community alterations induced by the insecticide thiacloprid
  28. Besonders, aber nicht besondernd zu betrachten
  29. Schulleitungen in Deutschland
  30. Lebendigkeit und Leiblichkeit als Kräfte der Wahrnehmung
  31. Sorgfaltspflichten für Unternehmen in transnationalen Menschenrechtsfällen
  32. Tim Houghton, Ed.: Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe. Does EU Membership Matter?
  33. The Effects of Psychotherapy for Adult Depression on Social Support
  34. Buchbesprechung: Selbstbildung und Bürgeridentität (2015). Politische Bildung vor dem Hintergrund der politischen Theorie von Charles Taylor. Von C. Meyer-Heidemann (978-3-7344-0049-0)