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. Media, Expertise and Political Decision

    Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic) & Petersen, I. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.0501.01.07

    Project: Research

  2. Multiple Representations in Science Education

    Niebert, K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.02.13 → …

    Project: Research

  3. Vigoni: Internet-Supported Sustainability Reporting in the Banking Sector

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Herzig, C. (Project staff) & Giese, N. (Project staff)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.01.0831.05.11

    Project: Research

  4. NEMo - Nachhaltige Erfüllung von Mobilitätserfordernissen im ländlichen Raum

    Halberstadt, J. (Project manager, academic), Marx Gómez, J. (Project manager, academic), Hahn, A. (Project manager, academic), Köster, F. (Project manager, academic), Taeger, J. (Project manager, academic), Winter, A. J. (Project manager, academic), Woisetschläger, D. M. (Project manager, academic) & Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.03.1628.02.19

    Project: Research

  5. CapaCity: Building Capacity for Climate Resilience and Sustainability in Cities

    Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), John, B. (Project manager, academic), Wiek, A. (Project manager, academic), Keeler, L. W. (Project manager, academic), Beaudoin, F. D. (Project manager, academic), Fink, J. (Project manager, academic), Shandas, V. (Project manager, academic), Lerner, A. (Project manager, academic), Almasan, O. (Project manager, academic) & Tamm, K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.02.1815.03.19

    Project: Research

  6. SESyP: Identifying social-ecological System Properties benefiting Biodiversity and Food Security

    Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic), Hanspach, J. (Coordination), Schultner, J. (Coordination), Dorresteijn, I. (Coordination), Collier, N. (Coordination), Dugo, G. S. (Project staff), Rodrigues, P. (Project staff), Jiren, T. S. (Project staff) & Manlosa, A. O. (Project staff)

    01.06.1431.05.19

    Project: Research

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Researchers

  1. Peter Bringewat

Publications

  1. Religionen im Pluralismus
  2. Weder Herren noch Knechte
  3. Überschriften – der Anfang ist das A und O?!
  4. A systematic multi-step screening of numerous salt hydrates for low temperature thermochemical energy storage
  5. Metabolites and Transformation Products of Pharmaceuticals in the Aquatic Environment as Contaminants of Emerging Concern
  6. Stichtagsprinzip und Ereignisse nach dem Bilanzstichtag
  7. Bankruptcy in Germany
  8. Projekt "Gender Greenstreaming"
  9. Stromzugang im Globalen Süden
  10. IMAGE: Development of a European curriculum for the training of prevention managers
  11. Confliggere cooperando
  12. Ist auch Krankheit "der Sünde Sold"?
  13. Arbeitszufriedenheit im Kontext
  14. Fragwürdige Gründe: Exklusion durch Inklusion?
  15. Bewegung - Bildung - Gesundheit
  16. Transdisciplinarity
  17. Mental health – backbone of the soul
  18. A note on firm age and the margins of imports: First evidence from Germany
  19. Bewegung an Geräten
  20. Exploring artful possibilities: a transdisciplinary research on culture, arts and sustainability
  21. Herausforderungen in der Grundschule digital begegnen
  22. Political Culture Paradigm
  23. Arbeitsbedingungen von Journalisten
  24. [Review] Tracy McDonald e Daniel Vandersommers (a cura di), Zoo Studies. A New Humanities, Montreal, McGill¿Queen¿s University Press, 2019, 345 pp.
  25. Limited knowledge flow among stakeholders of critically endangered renosterveld in South Africa
  26. Careerists or Educational Aspirants? – (Re-)entry of European Lifelong Learners into Higher Education
  27. Die Erwartungslücke im Rahmen der externen Abschlussprüfung
  28. Pitfalls in the Study of Democratization
  29. Biological invasions