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. The role of herbivory in mediating ecosystem functions in species-rich forests

    Schuldt, A. (Project manager, academic)

    01.08.1431.07.16

    Project: Research

  2. Biozide im Haushalt - Anwendungsmuster und Einträge ins Abwasser

    Wieck, S. (Project manager, academic), Olsson, O. (Project manager, academic) & Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1431.08.17

    Project: Dissertation project

  3. HYACINTH: Hydrogen acceptance in the transition phase

    Upham, P. (Project manager, academic) & Bögel, P. M. (Project staff)

    01.09.1401.06.18

    Project: Research

  4. Model adaptation and study site determination for environmental fate research of veterinary antibiotics in Lüneburg

    Gaßmann, M. (Project manager, academic) & Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1430.04.15

    Project: Research

  5. VSM: Survey on Values, Sustainability, and Strategic Management

    Brieger, S. (Project manager, academic), Seidel, J. (Project manager, academic), Sundermann, A. (Project manager, academic) & Strathoff, P. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1405.10.18

    Project: Research

  6. Exkursion Energiewende: Wilhelmsburger Energieprojekte mit dem Rad erkunden

    Hansen, E. G. (Project manager, academic) & Sommereisen, T. (Project staff)

    21.09.14 → …

    Project: Teaching

  7. KFP Betablocker: Abbaubare Betablocker

    Leder, C. (Project staff), Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic) & Rastogi, T. (Project staff)

    01.10.1430.06.15

    Project: Research

  8. Didactic reconstruction of the energy transition

    Hüfner, S. K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1424.07.20

    Project: Dissertation project

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Publications

  1. Parents’ Views of Video Games
  2. Adopters build bridges: Changing the institutional logic for more sustainable cities
  3. Systematisch zur (E-) Learning Excellence
  4. Halboffene Weidelandschaft Höltigbaum
  5. Air concentrations and particlegas partitioning of polyfluoroalkyl compounds at a wastewater treatment plant
  6. Enhanced granular medium-based tube and hollow profile press hardening
  7. Fehlgeburt und Stillgeburt
  8. Der Westberliner "underground"
  9. Spiegelbild, sprechender Spiegel, leerer Spiegel
  10. Ludus non tollit abusum
  11. Innovating entrepreneurial pedagogy
  12. Aufsätze im SMS-Stil?
  13. Age and Future
  14. Effect of salinity on filtration rates of mussels Mytilus edulis with special emphasis on dwarfed mussels from the low-saline Central Baltic Sea
  15. Gesundheitsfördernde Hochschulen
  16. Originäre und derivative Unternehmensgründung
  17. PRBs for remediation of PAHs, BTEX and related contaminants
  18. Der Überpapst
  19. Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften
  20. Organizational Behaviour - Verhalten in Organisationen
  21. Atomrecht im Wandel
  22. Crowdfunding
  23. Promoting decentralized sustainable energy systems in different supply scenarios
  24. Forschungsethik in der Kindheitsforschung - Dilemmata, Standards und Reflexionen für das Forschen über, zu und mit Kindern
  25. Stakeholder expectations on CSR management and current regulatory developments in Europe and Germany
  26. Organizational working time regimes
  27. Democratising platform governance in the sharing economy
  28. Big Drama - Small Spaces
  29. Max Weber and the Modern Problem of Discipline
  30. Mainstream und Gegenwartskunst
  31. Habitusformen von Eltern im Kontext der Computerspielnutzung ihrer Kinder
  32. Entscheidung
  33. Internationaler Personaleinsatz
  34. Flipped Classroom am Beispiel aktiven Lernens in der Vorlesung
  35. Der ‚Zürcher Stil der Politikphilosophie’
  36. Strengthening and ductilizing of magnesium alloying with heavy rare earth elements
  37. Clouds and Balloons
  38. Fast Car
  39. Von 1700 bis ins 3. Jahrtausend
  40. THE RADICAL ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN POLITICAL IMAGINATION AND PRODUCTION OF COMMON FUTURE IN BELARUSIAN PROTESTS
  41. Die Berufsbetreuung
  42. Selbstopfer der Naturburschen
  43. Prüfung von Nachhaltigkeitsberichten
  44. Prozessanalytische Modellierung von Wissenskommunikation in chat-basiertem CSCL