School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Faculty
- 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.
Topics
Als Träger der universitätsweiten Wissenschaftsinitiative Nachhaltigkeitsforschung fragt die Fakultät nach Bedingungen und Chancen einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung. Die Fakultät verbindet dazu Human- und Naturwissenschaften mit derzeit etwa 25 Professuren aus den Disziplinen Chemie, Informatik, Kommunikation, Management, Ökologie, Philosophie, Planung, Politik, Psychologie, Recht, Technik und VWL. Die transdisziplinären Arbeitsweisen in Forschung, Studium und Dienstleistungen zielen insbesondere darauf, zukünftige Entwicklungschancen für die Zivilgesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts zu schaffen und zu erhalten.
SAFECOAST : SAFECOAST: "The informed society". Analysis and strategy development for risk communication and coastal protection
Heinrichs, H., Grunenberg, H., Knolle, M. & Lüdecke, G.
01.10.06 → 31.03.08
Project: Research
Individual plant growth and branch demography as a function of species richness and composition (FOR 891 - Teilprojekt 02)
01.02.11 → 26.08.15
Project: Research
Mensch & Wald: Social Marketing und Bildung für eine Nachhaltige Waldwirtschaft
Stoltenberg, U., Kleinhückelkotten, S. & Wippermann, C.
01.04.05 → 31.07.08
Project: Research
Tangible Sustainability Policy: Possibilities and constraints of the establishment of biodiversity as a cross-cutting issue on the German federal level
01.04.11 → 01.03.14
Project: Dissertation project
A biodiversity hotspot faces intensification of viticulture: the role of Fynbos remnants for the conservation of plants and butterflies
Loos, J., Topp, E., Burghardt, S., Talanow, K., Martín-López, B., Underhill, L. & Edge, D.
01.04.18 → 30.06.20
Project: Research
Our common future: Biokunststoffe = umweltfreundlich?
Abels, S., Pleißner, D. & Reichelt, A.
16.10.17 → 31.01.20
Project: Practical Project
Time matters. Unlocking the transformative potential of strategic approaches towards a more sustainable metal use
Weiser, A., Lang, D. J. & Kümmerer, K.
01.01.15 → 31.03.19
Project: Dissertation project
Sustainability Lectures. Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung – Denkanstöße aus anderen europäischen Ländern
16.11.10 → 20.04.12
Project: Scientific event