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. Science Blog Lüneburg

    Rodenhauser, A. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.19 → …

    Project: Practical Project

  2. Sustainable Solutions in Intergenerational Conflicts

    Majer, J. (Project manager, academic), Schütte, C. (Project staff) & Trötschel, R. (Partner)

    01.05.19 → …

    Project: Research

  3. BioKultDiv: Biocultural Diversity in Farming Landscapes of the Global South

    Hanspach, J. (Project manager, academic), Díaz Reviriego, I. (Project staff), Benavides Frias, C. (Project staff), Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Project staff) & Drews-Shambroom, A. (Project staff)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.06.1931.05.25

    Project: Research

  4. Umweltverträgliches Rodentizid

    Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.06.1930.11.20

    Project: Research

  5. Biologische Abbaubarkeit von chemischen Stoffen

    Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.07.1931.12.19

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

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Publications

  1. Prospects for Humanitarian Uses of Force
  2. Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung in der Hochschule
  3. Die große Flut und die Arche
  4. Educational placement and achievement motivation of students with special educational needs
  5. Magnesium
  6. Nachhaltigkeit in der Unternehmensberichterstattung
  7. The Environmental Efficacy of Sustainability Management Tools
  8. The economic consequences of one-third co-determination in German supervisory boards
  9. Handelsgesetzbuch
  10. Website premia for extensive margins of international firm activities
  11. Von Kunst aus
  12. Erfolgreich promovieren in den Ingenieurwissenschaften
  13. Sustainability product declarations for communicating LCSA results in sustainable procurement
  14. Einkommenssituation Selbständiger in der Europäischen Union
  15. Newspapers and the circulation of academic knowledge
  16. Diskontierung von latenten Steuern
  17. Ihr habt verbreitet/ die Lehre der Klassiker. 
  18. Was also ist gleichzeitig?
  19. Analyses of Drugs and Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
  20. Von der Fremdevaluation zur Selbstevaluation
  21. Unternehmerpersönlichkeit und Gründungserfolg
  22. Knacken Sie die Karrierenuss!
  23. Veränderung von Selbstkonzepten und mathematischen Weltbildern von Studierenden im Laufe eines Seminars zu realitätsbezogenen Mathematikaufgaben mit MathCityMap
  24. Stahlbeton
  25. John Franklin's Expedition into the Arctic "Heart of Darkness"
  26. N2 fixation and performance of 12 legume species in a 6-year grassland biodiversity experiment
  27. Venture capital and internationalization
  28. Fachübergreifende Auseinandersetzung mit Nachhaltigkeit und Werten in der Studieneinstiegsphase – Das Beispiel des Leuphana Semesters
  29. Organizational Health Literacy in Schools
  30. Das Private im Privatrecht
  31. Pekka Kärkkäinen: Luthers trinitarische Theologie des heiligen Geistes, VIEG 208, Mainz 2005
  32. Visitor studies in Germany
  33. Do works councils inhibit investment?
  34. Schwer – schwierig – diffizil