School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Research School
- 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.
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.
Web Tools KMU: Online-Ansätze des Nachhaltigkeitsmanagements für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen
Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic) & Johnson, M. (Project staff)
01.09.13 → 24.02.17
Project: Other
Online-CSR-Kommunikation börsennotierter Unternehmen in der DACH-Region
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic), Bögel, P. M. (Project manager, academic), Hetze, K. (Project manager, academic) & Glock, Y. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.15 → 31.01.19
Project: Transfer (professional training)
OpenNESS: OPERATIONALISATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Martín-López, B. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.13 → 31.05.17
Project: Research
COUPLED: Operationalising telecouplings for solving sustainability challenges related to land use
Newig, J. (Project manager, academic), Coenen, J. (Project staff) & Challies, E. (Project staff)
01.01.18 → 30.06.22
Project: Research
Our common future: Biokunststoffe = umweltfreundlich?
Abels, S. (Project manager, academic), Pleißner, D. (Project manager, academic) & Reichelt, A. (Partner, non-academic)
16.10.17 → 31.01.20
Project: Practical Project
Paläoumwelt und das Alter der Schöninger Speere und der quartären Abfolge im Tagebau Schöningen. Chronometrische und relative Datierung mittels Lumineszenz und Palynologie
Urban, B. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.10.13 → 31.07.17
Project: Research
Participation Case Scout
Newig, J. (Project manager, academic) & Rose, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.19 → 31.03.22
Project: Other
Partizipation von Grundschulkindern an der Stadtentwicklung. Kooperation mit Schulen und dem Bezirksamt Hamburg-Bergedorf
Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.05 → 31.10.05
Project: Research
PIN9: Peers in Netzwerken Klasse 9 (PIN 9): Eine Längsschnittstudie zu den Folgen der Ganztagsbeschulung für die Peerbeziehungen, die Ausbildung der sozialen und emotionalen Kompetenzen, des Problemverhaltens und der Schulzufriedenheit
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.09.10 → 30.06.13
Project: Research
PIN: Peers in Netzwerken: Welche Auswirkungen hat die Ganztagsbeschulung auf die Einbindung von Jugendlichen in Peer-Netzwerke und Freundschaften und auf die Entwicklung sozialer und emotionaler Kompetenzen?
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.01.08 → 31.05.10
Project: Research