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. BINK: Educational Institutions and Sustainable Consumption

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic), Fischer, D. (Project manager, academic) & Richter, S. (Project manager, academic)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.06.0830.04.12

    Project: Research

  2. Evaluation der Sportgerichtsurteile des HFV der Saison 2007/2008

    Zick, A. (Project manager, academic), Winands, M. (Project staff) & Scherer, J. (Project staff)

    01.06.0830.09.10

    Project: Research

  3. Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung in außerschulischen Einrichtungen

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic), Rode, H. (Project staff) & Wendler, M. (Project staff)

    German Federal Environmental Foundation

    04.06.0831.12.12

    Project: Research

  4. Dilationswachstum

    Härdtle, W. (Project manager, academic)

    15.06.0828.08.09

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  5. SSCM: Sustainable Supply Chain Management. State of Practice in German Companies

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic) & Harms, D. (Project staff)

    15.06.0809.09.10

    Project: Research

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Publications

  1. Setting the agenda for climate assemblies. Trade-offs and guiding principles
  2. Von der Profession zur Organisation
  3. Behaviourally informed climate change policies
  4. Pandadiplomatie im Klassenraum
  5. Der Regierungsentwurf für ein Abschlussprüfungsreformgesetz (AReG)
  6. Die Leinwand
  7. A detailed decomposition for nonlinear econometric models
  8. LC-HRMS Data Processing Strategy for Reliable Sample Comparison Exemplified by the Assessment of Water Treatment Processes
  9. Musik/Video
  10. Umwelt-Governance und Partizipation
  11. Arendt i Kant: ravnopravni drugi i “prosireni nacin misljenja“ (Arendt and Kant: the Equal Others and an “Extended Way of Thinking”)
  12. Determinants of executive board remuneration new insights from Germany
  13. Magic Mushrooms
  14. From Geopolitics to Geoeconomics
  15. Hein Blöd
  16. Removal of dexamethasone from aqueous solution and hospital wastewater by electrocoagulation
  17. THE RADICAL ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN POLITICAL IMAGINATION AND PRODUCTION OF COMMON FUTURE IN BELARUSIAN PROTESTS
  18. Einsatz von Workflow-Managementsystemen in der Hochschulverwaltung
  19. Praxisbezug, interdisziplinäre Integration und Spezialisierung des Fachhochschulstudiums in der Diskussion
  20. Exports, Imports and Firm Survival
  21. Alexandru Grigorescu. 2015. Democratic Intergovernmental Organizations? Normative Pressures and Decision-Making Rules (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press)
  22. Modification of the umu-assay (ISO 13829) accounting for cytotoxicity in genotoxicity assessment: A preliminary study
  23. Zeit und Frieden