School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Faculty
- Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)
- Institute of Ecology
- Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- Institute of Sustainability Governance
- Institute of Sustainability Material Flows and Circularity
- Institute of Sustainability Psychology
- Institute of Sustainable Chemistry
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)
- Sustainability Education and Transdisciplinary Research Institute
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.
Topics
Als Träger der universitätsweiten Wissenschaftsinitiative Nachhaltigkeitsforschung fragt die Fakultät nach Bedingungen und Chancen einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung. Die Fakultät verbindet dazu Human- und Naturwissenschaften mit derzeit etwa 25 Professuren aus den Disziplinen Chemie, Informatik, Kommunikation, Management, Ökologie, Philosophie, Planung, Politik, Psychologie, Recht, Technik und VWL. Die transdisziplinären Arbeitsweisen in Forschung, Studium und Dienstleistungen zielen insbesondere darauf, zukünftige Entwicklungschancen für die Zivilgesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts zu schaffen und zu erhalten.
A biodiversity hotspot faces intensification of viticulture: the role of Fynbos remnants for the conservation of plants and butterflies
Loos, J., Topp, E., Burghardt, S., Talanow, K., Martín-López, B., Underhill, L. & Edge, D.
01.04.18 → 30.06.20
Project: Research
TRANSFORM: Accelerating sustainability entrepreneurship experiments in local spaces
01.04.18 → 31.03.25
Project: Other
Conservation of the endangered Danube Clouded Yellow butterfly (Colias myrmidone) in Natura 2000 sites of Romania
Loos, J., Börsch, J., Gallersdörfer, J., Kortmann, E., Nippen, P., Dolek, M., Kastal, A., Lengyel, P. & Vizauer, T.
01.04.18 → 30.09.22
Project: Research
INPLAMINT II: Increasing agricultural nutrient-use efficiency by optimizing plant–soil-microorganism interactions
01.04.18 → 31.05.21
Project: Research
Nawi-In: Naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht inklusiv gestalten - Kompetenzentwicklung von Lehramtsstudierenden für und mit der Praxis
Abels, S., Barth, M., Egger, D., Brauns, S. & Sellin, K.
01.04.18 → 30.09.21
Project: Research
TreeDi: TreeDiversity Interactions (TreeDi): The role of tree-tree interactions in local neighbourhoods in Chinese subtropical forests - International Research Training Group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Härdtle, W., von Oheimb, G., Fichtner, A., Perles-García, M. D., Bruelheide, H. & Wang, Y.
01.04.18 → 30.09.22
Project: Research
Durchführung innovativer Bildungsmaßnahmen und Erprobung neuer Bildungsformate zur Förderung von Nachhaltigkeitshandeln in Kommunen am Beispiel Niedersachsen
09.04.18 → 31.01.20
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
GLOCULL: Globally and Locally-sustainable Food-Water-Energy Innovation in Urban Living Labs
Lang, D. J. & Bernert, P.
01.05.18 → 31.03.22
Project: Research