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. Unraveling patterns of ecosystem services supply: a case study in Southern Chile

    Benra, F. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1831.08.22

    Project: Dissertation project

  2. Increasing the application of effective sustainability management methods in SMEs

    Hörisch, J. (Project manager, academic)

    01.08.1801.08.19

    Project: Research

  3. Local Food GCSO: GCSO_Transferring and Scaling Sustainable Local Food Economy Solutions

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Hagenbeck, J. (Project staff) & Hübel, C. (Project staff)

    01.07.1831.12.19

    Project: Other

  4. Language for Sustainability: Sustaining Biodiversity and Biocultures

    Manuel-Navarrete, D. (Project manager, academic), Martín-López, B. (Project manager, academic), Lam, D. (Project staff), Swanson, T. D. (Project manager, academic), Gerber, L. (Project staff), Mwampamba, T. H. (Project manager, academic), Escalante, A. E. (Project staff) & Camou Guerreroe, A. (Project staff)

    01.07.1830.06.19

    Project: Research

  5. Wildlife, Values, Justice: Reconciling Sustainability in African Proteced Areas

    Loos, J. (Project manager, academic), Fust, P. (Project staff), Giliba, R. (Project staff), Kachali, R. (Project staff), Thomsen, S. (Project staff) & Räther, A. (Project staff)

    Robert-Bosch Foundation

    01.07.1830.06.25

    Project: Research

  6. Shifting standards for boys and girls in the classroom

    Schuster, C. (Project manager, academic)

    01.06.1830.04.19

    Project: Research

  7. The influence of ethical cultures on corporate sustainability

    Hörisch, J. (Project manager, academic)

    01.06.1830.09.20

    Project: Other

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Publications

  1. Survival at river banks
  2. Profil
  3. Cultural Diversity
  4. Convergence and privatisation in Telecommunications «Regulation of access to limited resources in telecommunications sector in Europe»
  5. Relationships between the vegetation and soil conditions in beech and beech-oak forests of northern Germany
  6. Fördert Umverteilung die Existenzgründung?
  7. Analphabetismus, funktionaler
  8. Geographie des Arbeit
  9. Praxis in Kindertageseinrichtungen
  10. Existenzgründung als geplantes Verhalten
  11. Neustrukturierung des Mittleren Freihafens zum Central Terminal Steinwerder (CTS)
  12. Nostalgic Masculinity and Imperialist Fantasies in Parade's End
  13. Kleine Massenmedien
  14. Party, Coalition, Premiership
  15. Start-up Teams and Venture Capital Exit Performance in Germany
  16. Legitimität von Wahlen in der Transformation
  17. Schöne Sätze der Mathematik
  18. Nitrosation and analysis of amino acid derivatives by isocratic HPLC
  19. A computable general equilibrium assessment of a developing country joining an Annex B emission permit market
  20. The New European Public Country-by-Country-Reporting Requirement
  21. Magnesium and Magnesium Alloys
  22. Entstehung und Status der Technikfolgenabschätzung
  23. Die Moderationsmethode als Mittel zur Gestaltung von Präventions- und Kooperationsprojekten
  24. A coastal and an interior Douglas fir provenance exhibit different metabolic strategies to deal with drought stress
  25. Mariology, Calvinism, Painting
  26. Das akademische Prekariat
  27. Portraits, photographs, and politics in the carpet medium
  28. Walter Benjamin zur Einführung