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. Competencies (SustainCom): Analyse studentischer Kompetenzentwicklung: ein Beitrag der Hochschulbildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic), Rieckmann, M. (Project manager, academic), Timm, J.-M. (Project staff), Barth, M. (Partner) & Thomas, I. (Partner)

    01.01.1206.02.14

    Project: Research

  2. Die Auswirkungen des Atomausstiegs in Deutschland auf Strompreise und Klimaschutz in Deutschland und Europa

    Kemfert, C. (Project manager, academic) & Schill, W. P. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.1230.04.12

    Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)

  3. Einführungsphase und Begleitangebot Td Projekte/Master Sustainability Science

    Vilsmaier, U. (Project manager, academic) & Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.1230.04.15

    Project: Teaching

  4. Global Classroom-Liberal Arts Education für das 21. Jahrhundert mit internationaler Perspektive

    Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Laubichler, M. (Project manager, academic), Leonie, B. (Project staff), John, B. (Project staff) & Caniglia, G. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.1231.01.17

    Project: Research

  5. REDD+ and the changing politics and economics of forest protection in Indonesia

    McGregor, A. (Project manager, academic), Challies, E. (Partner), Gavin, M. (Partner), Weaver, S. (Partner) & Tacconi, L. (Partner)

    01.01.12 → …

    Project: Research

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Publications

  1. Nachlese
  2. Nachhaltigkeit und Journalismus
  3. Overclaiming is not related to dark triad personality traits or stated and revealed risk preferences
  4. Trends for snow cover and river flows in the Pamirs (Central Asia)
  5. § 261 HGB
  6. Correction
  7. Schichten und der Zwischenraum
  8. Klimaziel 2020 verfehlt
  9. “Great Men’s” work or just an inevitable consequence?
  10. Effects of the Neuro-Turn
  11. Eilanträge in Sachen CETA
  12. Emotional appropriateness and decision making
  13. Leading indicators for the US housing market: New empirical evidence and thoughts about implications for risk managers and ESG investors
  14. Marktorientiertes Nachhaltigkeitscontrolling
  15. Institutional Entrepreneurship
  16. Religionsunterricht in der konsequent pluralistischen Schule
  17. The psychology of entrepreneurship
  18. A reversed double movement in Brazil
  19. Detection of up to 65% of precancerous lesions of the human colon and rectum by mutation analysis of APC, K-Ras, B-Raf and CTNNB1.
  20. Studium gestattet?
  21. Preference for violent electronic games and aggressive behavior among children
  22. Das Datenhandeln
  23. Auf dem Weg zu einer erfolgreichen Umsetzung von Organisationsentwicklungsprojekten an Hochschulen
  24. Determinanten menschlicher Fehler in Risikoindustrien
  25. Modelling age-related changes in motor competence and physical fitness in high-level youth soccer players
  26. Synapses in the Network
  27. Bewegte Sprache – Ein Leben mit und für Mehrsprachigkeit
  28. Analysing the Gender Wage Gap Using Personnel Records of a Large German Company
  29. Pop-Musik-Analysen
  30. Moralphilosophische Fragen zum "Embryo"
  31. Governance in the Face of Extreme Events
  32. "You Are The Only Person In This Conference"