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School of Sustainability

Organisational unit: Research School

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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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Activities

  1. Hollis Frampton: ADSVMVS ABSVMVS, In memory of Hollis William Frampton, Sr., 1913–1980, abest - 2018
  2. Sachverständige für die Begutachtung von Unterrichtsmaterialien (Schulbüchern) für Chemie/Physik
  3. LP 2020 - Kompetenzorientierte Unterrichtsmaterialien für die Sekundarstufe I: Workshop 3 (Chemie)
  4. Affective polarization and the support for different forms of government. Evidence from Germany
  5. G*tt! Wie queer ist das denn? Heteronormativitätskritische und queer-theologische religiöse Bildung
  6. Mobilität der Niedrigeinkommen von Selbständigen und abhängig Beschäftigten in UK und Deutschland
  7. Beyond the ius in bello: On the Discursive Preconditions of the Dissociative Mentality of Total War
  8. Conference presentation: The Relationship between the Internal Audit Function and the Audit Committee
  9. 3. Niedersächsischer Workshop in “APPLIED ECONOMICS” für Nachwuchswissenschaftler aus Niedersachsen 2014

Publications

  1. Green Software and Green Software Engineering–Definitions, Measurements, and Quality Aspects
  2. Adjustment of deferred compensation schemes, fairness concerns, and hiring of older workers
  3. Vocational identity achievement as a mediator of presence of calling and life satisfaction
  4. Die Wahrnehmung von temporaler Textkohäsion durch Schüler/-innen am Beispiel eines Sachtextes
  5. Feasibility of orbital friction stir welding on clad pipes of API X65 steel and Inconel 625
  6. Energiekartelle im Lichte des WTO-Rechts – zugleich ein Beitrag zur Auslegung des Art. XX GATT
  7. Lexikalische Erwerbsstrategien auf der Basis primärsprachenunterrichtlicher Wortschatzarbeit
  8. El diálogo intercultural y su impacto para la pedagogia y el desarrollo sostenible en Alemania
  9. Policy Change in Times of Politicization: The Case of Corporate Taxation in the European Union
  10. Transferring biodiversity-ecosystem function research to the management of ‘real-world’ ecosystems
  11. Ausschreibungen in einem Konzept zur ergebnisorientierten Honorierung ökologischer Leistungen
  12. "Notwendigkeit des Vergleichs!“ Der Ansatz einer komparativen pädagogischen Berufsgruppenforschung
  13. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Daily Lives of Young People in Residential Group Care
  14. Bildungstheoretische Explikationen im Kontext ästhetischer und gesundheitlicher Bewegungspraxen
  15. The mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation in the task-environment-performance relationship
  16. Kunstkammer, Ostasiatische Weltkunst, Expressionistische Avantgarde neben Rokoko und Bauhaus-Moderne.
  17. Multiple streams, leaked opportunities, and entrepreneurship in the EU agenda against tax avoidance
  18. Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky/Reinhold Görling (Hg.): Denkweisen des Spiels. Medienphilosophische Annäherungen
  19. Connected or Unconnected? – Synergiepotenziale und Herausforderungen von IT-Governance in Hochschulen
  20. Auf dem Weg zu einer erfolgreichen Umsetzung von Organisationsentwicklungsprojekten an Hochschulen
  21. Carbon content and other soil properties of near-surface peats before and after peatland restoration