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. Begleitprogramm Leuphana Semester

    Vilsmaier, U. (Project manager, academic), Michelsen, G. (Partner), Seifert, A. (Partner) & Dörfler, T. (Partner)

    06.07.1230.09.14

    Project: Teaching

  2. Ecosystem services of temperate rainforests in the western US

    von Wehrden, H. (Project manager, academic) & Brandt, P. (Project staff)

    01.08.1231.07.13

    Project: Research

  3. Fallsammlung des Lehrens und Lernens

    Niebert, K. (Project manager, academic), Gropengiesser, H. (Project manager, academic) & Dannemann, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.08.1201.04.13

    Project: Research

  4. Globalands

    Ruck, W. (Project manager, academic)

    01.08.1231.12.17

    Project: Research

  5. I N&J: Initiative "Nachhaltigkeit und Journalismus" - Durchführung einer Experten-Workshop-Reihe und Entwicklung von Modulen für die Aus- und Weiterbildung

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic), Fischer, D. (Coordination), Humburg, A. (Project staff), Marwege, R. (Project staff) & Achenbach, A. (Project staff)

    German Federal Environmental Foundation

    19.09.1231.05.15

    Project: Transfer (professional training)

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Researchers

  1. Ulrike Pilarczyk

Publications

  1. Lesarten des Natürlichen
  2. Solid solution treatment on strength and corrosion of biodegradable Mg6Ag wires
  3. University students' sense of coherence, future worries and mental health
  4. Understanding relational values in cultural landscapes in Romania and Germany
  5. Selbst is(s)t der Mann - Essen kochen in der Jugendarbeit
  6. Flow und imaginative Bildung
  7. Klein, Naomi (b. 1970) and the Movement Against Neoliberal Globalization
  8. Using social media photos to explore the relation between cultural ecosystem services and landscape features across five European sites
  9. Forschung für nachhaltige entwicklungen
  10. Gefühle als Atmosphären
  11. Adolescence in times of social-ecological crisis. Perspectives for social pedagogical analysis and research
  12. Gefahrenwahrnehmung im Straßenverkehr
  13. "Durch den Tod hindurch ging ich hinein ins Leben"
  14. Überwachung operationeller Risiken mit Frühwarnindikatoren
  15. Access to Information on Legislative Proceedings - Case Note on Judgment of the Court (2nd Chamber) of 18 July 2013 - C 515/11
  16. The effect of elevated CO2 concentration and nutrient supply on carbon-based plant secondary metabolites in Pinus sylvestris L.
  17. Rechtsgespräche
  18. Lesen
  19. Entrepreneurship in Africa: What do we know and where do we have to go from here?
  20. Beschäftigung statt Ruhestand
  21. Die Angst vor Migranten. Gefühle als Modus des politischen Denkens
  22. Degrees in economic psychology
  23. Zwischen Weltveränderung und Innerlichkeit
  24. Der städtische Raum
  25. Die Finanzierung des Flächenrecyclings durch Kreditinstitute
  26. Weltarmut und geistiges Eigentum
  27. Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung
  28. Perceived Price Fairness in Pay-What-You-Want
  29. Analyse von Lernmaterialien zum „Satz des Pythagoras“ für einen inklusiven Matehmatikunterricht in der Sek. I