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. Einsatz von Gamification am Beispiel von Artenschutzsensibilisierung

    Abels, S. (Project manager, academic) & Krebs, A.-K. (Project staff)

    01.10.2330.09.25

    Project: Research

  2. Nachhaltige Raumentwicklung - Wirtschaften in Netzen: Regionalvermarktung und Akteursnetzwerke von der Elbe bis zur Heide

    Schrader, R. (Project staff), Lang, F. J. (Project staff), Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic) & Burandt, A. (Project staff)

    15.10.1228.02.13

    Project: Teaching

  3. FoodLabHome

    Abels, S. (Project manager, academic) & Pleißner, D. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1830.09.21

    Project: Research

  4. Vereinfachung und Verschlankung des Naturschutzrechts

    Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.0730.04.08

    Project: Research

  5. Mycorrhizae in tree diversity effects on ecosystem functioning

    Eisenhauer, N. (Project manager, academic), Ferlian, O. (Project manager, academic), Haider, S. (Partner), Bruelheide, H. (Project manager, academic) & Heklau, H. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.17 → …

    Project: Research

  6. "Invasive" Arten im Prozessschutz

    Kapitza, K. (Project manager, academic) & Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.1730.04.20

    Project: Dissertation project

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Publications

  1. Diversification through green innovations
  2. Landscape Imaginaries and the Protection of Dynamic Nature at the Wadden Sea
  3. Anmerkung zu BGH, Beschluss vom 27. Januar 2015 - 5 StR 310/13
  4. European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2022
  5. Five primary sources of organic aerosols in the urban atmosphere of Belgrade (Serbia)
  6. Ten Theses on Technology and Organization
  7. Zur Notwendigkeit ästhetischer Operationen
  8. Nachhaltigkeit in die Schule gebracht: Befunde aus einer empirischen Studie
  9. Ana Ofak/Philipp v. Hilgers (Hg.): Rekursionen. Von Faltungen des Wissens
  10. Jamming sustainable futures
  11. Eine Schulleistungsstudie der IEA und ihre internationale Erweiterung
  12. Netzwerke des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses im Kontext der Erziehungswissenschaft
  13. The Great Pacific Garbage Catch
  14. Regulierung der Aufsichtsratstätigkeit durch das CRD IV-Umsetzungsgesetz
  15. Oscar Wilde, "Der glückliche Prinz und andere Märchen"
  16. The effect of elevated CO2 concentration and nutrient supply on carbon-based plant secondary metabolites in Pinus sylvestris L.
  17. Kulturmarketing
  18. An Action Theory Approach to the Psychology of Entrepreneurial Actions and Entrepreneurial Success
  19. Intelligenz-Comptoirs
  20. "Das Vaterland über die Partei!"
  21. Einleitung: Blumers Rebellion 2.0: Eine Wissenschaft der Interpretation
  22. Monstrous Bodies in Rudolf Virchow's Medical Collection in Nineteenth-Century Germany
  23. (Hey, hey) We're going wild and wicked
  24. Political Culture and Value Change
  25. Bundesverfassungsgericht und Zukunft der EU
  26. Hannah Arendt
  27. CSR-Kommunikation
  28. Delineating the interplay between subjective safety and country image in influencing international tourists’ extrinsic travel motives