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. GrassSyn - Biodiversity of Brazilian grasslands and savannas: patterns and drivers, ecosystem services, and strategies for conservation and restoration

    Overbeck, G. E. (Project manager, academic), Temperton, V. (Partner), Anand, M. (Partner), Santiago, B. (Partner), Carlucci, M. (Partner), Dechoum, M. (Partner), Durigan, G. (Partner), Fidelis, A. (Partner), Guido, A. (Partner), Menezes, L. (Partner), Müller, S. (Partner), Rosenfield, M. F. (Partner), Sampaio, A. (Partner), Sosinski, E. (Partner), Staude, I. (Partner), Tornquist, C. G. (Partner), Turchetto, C. (Partner), Veldman, J. W. (Partner), Vélez-Martin, E. (Partner) & Wiesmeier, M. (Partner)

    01.01.2031.12.22

    Project: Research

  2. Kolleg Didaktik: Digital

    Abels, S. (Project manager, academic) & Stinken-Rösner, L. (Project staff)

    Joachim Herz Stiftung

    01.01.2030.09.22

    Project: Teaching

  3. Green Fashion Challenge: Modekultur, Textilien und Nachhaltigkeit

    Hörisch, J. (Project manager, academic) & Hampe, L. (Project staff)

    01.01.2001.03.21

    Project: Other

  4. NEu: Nutrient Network Europe

    Harpole, W. S. (Project manager, academic) & Haider, S. (Partner)

    01.01.2031.12.24

    Project: Research

  5. Postdoc Academi 2 Kursdurchlauf

    Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic)

    Robert-Bosch Foundation

    15.12.1915.08.20

    Project: Other

  6. Care4Care

    Lehr, D. (Project manager, academic)

    01.12.1931.12.24

    Project: Research

  7. "Sustainability and Digitalization - a European perspective"

    Barth, M. (Project manager, academic), Trittin-Ulbrich, H. (Partner), Lang, D. J. (Partner) & von Wehrden, H. (Partner)

    Robert-Bosch Foundation

    01.12.1931.08.22

    Project: Teaching

  8. NEWAVE: Next Water Governance

    Newig, J. (Project manager, academic) & Bilalova, S. (Project staff)

    Europäische Union

    01.11.1930.04.24

    Project: Research

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Researchers

  1. Dietmar Meyer

Publications

  1. Nutzung von Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement-Software in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen
  2. Statistik und Wirklichkeit
  3. Stakeholders perceptions of the endangered Egyptian vulture
  4. Vorhersage des Studienabbruchs in naturwissenschaftlich-technischen Studiengängen
  5. Predicting academic success with the big 5 rated from different points of view: Self-rated, other rated and faked
  6. Bridging corporate and academic contributions
  7. Lee Daniels' The Butler
  8. "Das Vaterland über die Partei!"
  9. Bohle, Dorothee, und Béla Greskovits. Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery. Ithaca/London. Cornell University Press 2012
  10. Mobile kommunikation
  11. Kunst-Handel im Medien-Wandel
  12. Was nie geschrieben wurde, lesen. L’antropologia linguistica di Walter Benjamin
  13. The research process of understanding biographical learning processes of sustainability entrepreneurs
  14. Go ahead - I will follow you!
  15. Haftungsrecht im Dritten Millenium
  16. Diskussionsinhalte der 8. Hamburger Revisions-Tagung vom 14. und 15. September 2009
  17. Tapping Environmental Accounting Potentials of Beer Brewing
  18. Regulating Treaty Breaches
  19. Humor und wirksame Führung
  20. The marketing and public affairs of sustainability
  21. Das Nachhaltigkeitskonzept Studierender im Studienverlauf
  22. Depicting Women in Brazilian Social Realism: A Transnational and Computational Analysis
  23. Acs, Zoltan J. and Audretsch, David B. (eds.): Small Firms and Entrepreneurship: An East-West Perspective, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.240 pp. E 30.00. ISBN 0-52143115-8.
  24. Applicability of the European Commission's framework on safe and sustainable by design to the pharmaceutical sector
  25. Compliance with the German Corporate Governance Code and firm performance
  26. Foundations of Management & Entrepreneurship
  27. Verfahren zur Herstellung eines Blechkörpers aus wenigstens zwei Blechen
  28. Theodor Storms Gedicht „Geh nicht hinein“
  29. Ad Hoc Expert Panels: Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs)
  30. Parents’ Views of Video Games