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. Unternehmen vor öffentlichen Auseinandersetzungen
  2. Similar performance in central and range-edge populations of a Eurasian steppe grass under different climate and soil pH regimes
  3. Nachlese
  4. Das Konzept
  5. Arzneimittel in der Umwelt
  6. Effects of the Neuro-Turn
  7. Leading indicators for the US housing market: New empirical evidence and thoughts about implications for risk managers and ESG investors
  8. Marktorientiertes Nachhaltigkeitscontrolling
  9. Institutional Entrepreneurship
  10. Die Konstitutionsfunktion des Krieges
  11. Marah Durimeh oder Die Rückkehr zur 'großen Mutter'
  12. "Gute Kinder schlechter Eltern"
  13. GrassVeg.DE
  14. Bewegung an der Wand
  15. Religionsunterricht in der konsequent pluralistischen Schule
  16. What teachers and parents can add to personality ratings of children
  17. Finanzmathematische Effektivzins-Berechnungsmethoden
  18. Expanding Material Flow Cost Accounting
  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. Space Dispute Settlement in Asia in the Context of the Belt & Road Initiative
  21. Multiple components of plant diversity loss determine herbivore phylogenetic diversity in a subtropical forest experiment
  22. The impact of political leaders' profession and education on reforms
  23. XXD11
  24. Die unheimliche Verkehrung.
  25. Recounting the Past, Present and Future
  26. Das Spiel und seine Grenzen
  27. Das Datenhandeln
  28. Auf dem Weg zu einer erfolgreichen Umsetzung von Organisationsentwicklungsprojekten an Hochschulen
  29. "Community" as a Future Perspective of European Social Work?
  30. Plant functional traits explain species abundance patterns and strategies shifts among saplings and adult trees in Araucaria forests
  31. Wie kommt das Neue in die Welt?
  32. Chemotaxonomy of the Xylariaceae and remarkable bioactive compounds from Xylariales and their associated asexual stages
  33. Determinanten menschlicher Fehler in Risikoindustrien
  34. Modelling age-related changes in motor competence and physical fitness in high-level youth soccer players
  35. Grundkurs Fernsehanalyse