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.
Politikberatung in der Wissensgesellschaft: Eine Analyse umweltpolitischer Beratungssysteme
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.98 → 31.05.01
Project: Research
International evaluation off interpretation training options at all levels in the BSR.
Wohlers, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.05 → 30.12.05
Project: Research
Lebenswelt Hochschule (als Teilprojekt des interdisziplinären Gesamtprojekts „Nachhaltige Entwicklung im Kontext universitärer Aufgabenstellungen“)
Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Paulus, P. (Project manager, academic) & Rieckmann, M. (Project staff)
01.07.04 → 30.06.07
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Nachhaltigkeit neu erzählen - Durchführung eines Praxisprojektes zur Entwicklung eines innovativen Formats der Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation in der journalistischen Weiterbildung
Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic) & Humburg, A. (Project staff)
German Federal Environmental Foundation
18.06.13 → 18.02.14
Project: Practical Project
Die Natur des Ländlichen. Zur Konzeption gesellschaftlicher Naturverhältnisse in ländlichen Räumen (Arbeitstitel)
Mölders, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.12.09 → 19.12.18
Project: Research
LoLE: Leaders of Learner Empowerment (LoLE) - Entwicklung und Erprobung eines transformativen Trainings für Führungskräfte in Schulen zur Umsetzung eines partizipativen Whole School Approaches
Fischer, D. (Project manager, academic), Humburg, D. (Coordination) & Grauer, C. (Project staff)
01.02.25 → 31.01.27
Project: Research
ELLA international: Entwicklung und Lernen in lokalen Agenda 21-Prozessen durch grenzüberschreitende europäische Zusammenarbeit
Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic) & Muraca, B. (Project staff)
01.02.01 → 01.01.02
Project: Research
Anwendung des TOP-Runner-Ansatzes auf Konsumgüter
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
05.01.09 → 29.10.12
Project: Research
RNE: Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement in der öffentlichen Verwaltung. Konzepte und Instrumente
Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Müller, A. (Project staff), Klewitz, J. (Project staff) & Harms, D. (Project staff)
01.12.08 → 30.04.10
Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)
TM 1.3 C FuE-Projekt 08: Übertragung eines Verfahrens zur Quantifizierung und Bewertung von NSO-Heterocyclen in Umweltproben
Ruck, W. (Project manager, academic), Japsen, A. (Project staff) & Mänz, J. S. (Project staff)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.12.11 → 31.10.15
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Virtual Copernicus Campus - eLearning for Sustainability in the European Higher Education Area
Barth, M. (Project manager, academic) & Burandt, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.05 → 28.02.06
Project: Research
Degradation of emerging contaminants by advanced oxidation technologies: Kinetics, identification of degradation products and assessment of biodegradability and toxicology
Wilde, M. L. (Project manager, academic)
04.04.13 → 31.03.15
Project: Research
SoCoFarm: SoCoFarm: Soil Communication by Farmers; Study on Farmer´s Perception of and Communication about Soils
Lütkemöller, D. (Project manager, academic) & Tischbierek, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.12.14 → …
Project: Other
Met-Total: Plant Meta-Metabolomics – Development of an Unbiased Survey of Habitat-Dependent Metabolic Diversity (Met-Total)
Wessjohann, L. (Project manager, academic) & Haider, S. (Project staff)
01.01.22 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
INPLAMINT: Increasing agricultural nutrient-use efficiency by optimizing plant-soil-microorganism interactions
Temperton, V. (Project manager, academic), von Wehrden, H. (Project manager, academic), Brüggemann, N. (Project manager, academic), Rillig, M. C. (Project manager, academic), Schloter, M. (Project manager, academic), Müller-Lindenlauf, M. (Project manager, academic), Bonkowski, M. (Project manager, academic), Koller, R. (Project manager, academic), Kage, H. (Project manager, academic) & Armbruster, M. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.04.15 → 31.03.18
Project: Research
Planerische, technische und ökologische Anforderungen an das Freileitungsrecht
Lauer, J. J. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
02.11.15 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Local Food GCSO: GCSO_Transferring and Scaling Sustainable Local Food Economy Solutions
Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Hagenbeck, J. (Project staff) & Hübel, C. (Project staff)
01.07.18 → 31.12.19
Project: Other
Language for Sustainability: Sustaining Biodiversity and Biocultures
Manuel-Navarrete, D. (Project manager, academic), Martín-López, B. (Project manager, academic), Lam, D. (Project staff), Dillon-Swanson, T. (Project manager, academic), Gerber, L. (Project staff), Mwampamba, T. H. (Project manager, academic), Escalante, A. E. (Project staff) & Camou Guerreroe, A. (Project staff)
01.07.18 → 30.06.19
Project: Research
IP TM 1.3 C FuE-Projekt 02 - FeQuan: Internes Projektbudget TM 1.3 C FuE-Projekt 02 - FeQuan
Ruck, W. (Project manager, academic), Opel, O. (Project staff) & Japsen, A. (Project staff)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
19.08.09 → 31.12.15
Project: Other
Aqua-Agenten
Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Lange, M. (Project staff) & Lang, F. (Project staff)
01.05.10 → …
Project: Practical Project
CapaCity: Building Sustainability Implementation Capacity in City Staff and Leadership
Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), John, B. (Project staff), Wiek, A. (Project manager, academic), Keeler, L. W. (Project staff), Beaudoin, F. D. (Project manager, academic), Fink, J. (Project staff), Shandas, V. (Project staff), Lerner, A. (Project staff), Almasan, O. (Project staff) & Tamm, K. (Project staff)
01.03.17 → 28.02.18
Project: Research
Instrumente zur aktiven Verbreitung umweltbezogener Informationen - Qualitative Bewertung und Gegenüberstellung der Informationspflichten nach Energiewirtschafts- und Umweltinformationsrecht
Tolkmitt, U. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
04.06.10 → 09.06.10
Project: Dissertation project
ECCUITY: "Ökonomie des Klimawandels - Verbundvorhaben: Verteilung, Effizienz und Politik unter Unsicherheit - Distribution, Efficiency and Policy under Uncertainty (ECCUITY) - Teilvorhaben 1: Risikoexternalitäten, externes moralisches Risiko und Versicherung - WP2"
Baumgärtner, S. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.07.12 → 31.12.15
Project: Research
Archäologisches Forschungsprojekt "Schöninger Speere"
Urban, B. (Project manager, academic)
Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege
27.06.11 → 01.01.21
Project: Research
Global TraPs: Transdisciplinary Processes for Sustainable Phosphorus Management
Vilsmaier, U. (Partner) & Lang, D. J. (Partner)
01.01.10 → 31.12.15
Project: Research
Analysing sustainability competencies of students
Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic), Rieckmann, M. (Coordination) & Timm, J.-M. (Coordination)
01.05.12 → 30.04.13
Project: Research
DSADS - "Den Spurenstoffen auf der Spur" - Teil 1: „Herkunftsanalyse und Sensibilisierung im Stadtgebiet Dülmen."
Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic), Olsson, O. (Project staff), Nafo, I. (Coordination), Götz, K. (Partner), Liesenfeld, J. (Partner) & Keil, F. (Partner)
30.10.12 → 20.12.15
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Biodiversity and productivity in rangelands and their management
von Wehrden, H. (Project manager, academic) & Engler, J.-O. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.15 → 30.06.15
Project: Research
Promoting Knowledge in Times of Global Change - A Platform on Transdisciplinary Sustainability Sciences
Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic), Ahlers, T. (Partner), Fischer, D. (Coordination), Marwege, R. (Project staff), Richter, S. (Project staff), Hetze, K. (Project staff), Metz, C. (Project staff), Mader, M. (Project staff) & Timm, J.-M. (Project staff)
01.05.11 → 07.08.23
Project: Research
100% EE-Region: 100% erneuerbare-Energie-Region Landkreis und Hansestadt Lüneburg
Ruck, W. (Project manager, academic)
29.06.11 → 20.04.15
Project: Research
Schutzwürdigkeit und Schutzperspektive der Stromtal-Wiesen an der unteren Mittelelbe: Ein vegetationskundlicher Beitrag zur Leitbildentwicklung
Härdtle, W. (Project manager, academic) & Redecker, B. (Project staff)
01.09.97 → 31.03.01
Project: Research
Klimafolgenanpassung: Klimafolgenanpassung - Analyse der Entwicklung einer Klimaanpassungsstrategie für Niedersachsen
Striegnitz, M. (Project manager, academic), Saretzki, T. (Project manager, academic) & Ebermann, V. (Project staff)
Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Umwelt, Energie und Klimaschutz
01.04.11 → 30.06.18
Project: Research
Internationale wissenschaftliche Veranstaltung "On the Generalization of Newtons Experimentum Crucis", Berlin, 19.-22.09.2010
Grebe-Ellis, J. (Project manager, academic)
17.06.10 → 27.01.11
Project: Scientific event
FDS-G: Fühlen Denken Sprechen in der Grundschule - Fortbildung zur durchgängigen inhaltsorientierten Sprachförderung für alle Betreuungspersonen - Teilprojekt Emotionsentwicklung
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic), Voltmer, K. (Project manager, academic), Koch, K. (Partner), Langlotz, M. (Partner) & Hormann, O. (Partner)
01.12.22 → 30.11.25
Project: Research
VidEX: Video4Bio – Lehren und Lernen mittels biologischer Experimentier-Videos
Stinken-Rösner, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.21 → 31.12.21
Project: Other
EPS: Distance Education for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Regional Development in Latvia
Lütkemöller, D. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.01 → 31.08.04
Project: Research
Dokumentation zum aktuellen Stand von Forschung und Diskussion zum Thema Geschlechterverhältnisse und Nachhaltigkeit
Katz, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.01 → 31.03.02
Project: Research
Zukunftscamp - Future Now
Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Bartsch, A. (Project staff) & Wüllner, C. (Project staff)
01.04.07 → 30.03.09
Project: Practical Project
3-LENSUS: Lifelong Learning Network for Sustainable Development
Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic) & Adomßent, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.09 → 31.07.11
Project: Research
BISS-FDS: Fühlen Denken Sprechen: Professionalisierung alltagsintegrierter sprachlicher Bildung bei ein- und mehrsprachlich aufwachsenden Kindern
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic), Mähler, C. (Project manager, academic), Cloos, P. (Project manager, academic) & Koch, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.16 → 31.01.20
Project: Research
2042 - Germany Europe World 2042 - a Transformation is possible
Burandt, S. (Coordination)
01.01.14 → 31.12.42
Project: Research
CfN: Caring for natures? Geschlechterperspektiven auf (Vor)Sorge im Umgang mit ,Natur/en‘
Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic), Mölders, T. (Project manager, academic), Kapitza, K. (Project staff), Deininger, M. (Project staff) & Katz, C. (Partner)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.02.17 → 30.09.20
Project: Research
VaNaTe: Unravelling the relation between Values of Nature and Telecoupling
Martín-López, B. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.23 → 30.04.26
Project: Research
Teach about US: Educational Outreach Project - Bridging the American Studies and Science Classrooms: Going Green Meets STEM
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Kaliampos, J. (Project staff), Abels, S. (Partner) & Hüfner, S. K. (Project staff)
24.02.17 → 30.09.18
Project: Practical Project
Eine Systematisierung der Schutzgebietskategorien des Bundesnaturschutzgesetzes nach landschaftsökologischen Kriterien unter Beachtung sowohl des Europa- als auch des Völerrechts
Dietrich, B. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
04.06.10 → 11.06.10
Project: Dissertation project
Future generations in present-day democracy. The theory and practice of proxy representation.
Rose, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.12 → 06.12.16
Project: Dissertation project
Lehrforschungsprojekt: Bildung im Lebenslauf. Werkstatt Professionalisierung und Weiterbildung in pädagogischen Berufen (Universität Wien)
Offen, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.14 → 30.09.14
Project: Teaching
Die Entwicklung der energierechtlichen Pflichten der Übertragungsnetzbetreiber
Hobbeling, F. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
17.06.06 → 26.08.10
Project: Dissertation project
Raumkonflikte – Konflikträume: Wie beinflussen neue molekularbiologische Züchtungstechniken Diskurse und Praktiken in ländlichen Räumen in Großbritannien und Deutschland?
Friedrich, B. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.19 → 31.03.20
Project: Research
Bürgerbeteiligung bei Onshore-Windenergie – Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Beteiligung von Nachbarn bei der Planung, Genehmigung und Finanzierung der Errichtung und des Betriebs von Windenergieanlagen
Maly, C. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
12.02.14 → 30.09.17
Project: Dissertation project