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.

  1. Medien und klimabewusstes Verhalten. Die Bedeutung des Fernsehens für ein nachhaltiges Alltagshandeln bei Jugendlichen.

    Lüdecke, G. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.0831.03.11

    Project: Dissertation project

  2. VerS: VerS - Verfall gesellschafticher Strukturen – Chance für nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Newig, J. (Project manager, academic) & Balsam, R. (Project staff)

    01.07.0931.12.11

    Project: Research

  3. NaGe: Befördern Nachhaltigkeitskompetenzen Frauen an die Spitze?

    Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic), Thiem, A. (Project staff), Katz, C. (Project staff), Moths, K. (Project staff) & Heilmann, S. (Project staff)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.03.1131.12.14

    Project: Research

  4. Ressourcenpolitik und Geschlechtergerechtigkeit in der Globalisierung

    Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic) & Bauhardt, C. (Partner)

    01.04.1031.03.13

    Project: Research

  5. 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)

    01.05.1107.08.23

    Project: Research

  6. Sustainability Politics Barometer

    Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic) & Laws, N. (Project staff)

    01.03.1122.07.15

    Project: Research

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Publications

  1. Archival or perceived measures of environmental uncertainty?
  2. Wirtschaftsethik
  3. § 48 Solare Strahlungsenergie
  4. Gewaltdarstellung
  5. Recht in Bewegung
  6. Die Okkupation des Raumes
  7. Leveraging inner sustainability through cross-cultural learning
  8. Die Rohstoff-Expedition
  9. Zur Geschichte der Zeitwertbilanzierung in Deutschland
  10. Ausblick: Qualifikationsprofil "Sprachliche Bildung in gesellschaftlicher Diversität" für eine Profilbildung im Lehramtsstudium
  11. Gelingensbedingungen für die Entwicklung guter gesunder Schulen
  12. Wie teuer ist (uns) die Umwelt?
  13. The role of multi-functionality in social preferences toward semi-arid rural landscapes
  14. Impacts of the German support for renewable energy on electricity prices, emissions and profits
  15. Koloniale Spuren in Oldenburg
  16. 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology Contributions of Psychology to Problems of the Individual and Society 16.-21 Juli 2006, Athen, Griechenland International Association of Applied Psychology
  17. Dataset size versus homogeneity
  18. Datenbasierte Entscheidungsfindung trifft Digitalisierung - Einblicke in die prozesshafte unterrichtliche Nutzung digitaler Lerndaten durch Grundschullehrkräfte
  19. At the interface of historical and present-day ecology: ground beetles in woodlands and open habitats in Upper Galilee (Israel) (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
  20. Die Tischgesellschaft
  21. Praxisphasen im Lehramtsstudium mit Schwerpunkt auf der Einbindung neu zugewanderter Schülerinnen und Schüler
  22. In the Making
  23. ‘The human shield effect’: Human-wildlife co-occurrence patterns in the coffee forests of southwestern Ethiopia
  24. Manufacturing individual opinions
  25. Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity: Are Services Firms different?