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. Ansätze zur strategischen Langfristpolitikgestaltung am empirischen Beispiel des Ausstiegs aus den fossilen Energieträgern in Deutschland bis 2050

    Schulze, M. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)

    01.03.1331.05.18

    Project: Dissertation project

  2. Diversität willkommen heißen im naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht

    Abels, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.03.1331.01.16

    Project: Research

  3. Influence of degradation-resistent antibiotics and their transformation products from veterinary medicine on herbivorous and nectarivorous insects

    Bolek, R. (Project manager, academic), Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic), Klein, A.-M. (Project manager, academic), Leonhardt, S. (Project manager, academic) & Pufal, G. (Project manager, academic)

    01.03.1328.02.14

    Project: Research

  4. Project “Soils in the Media: Soil Topics on Youtube”

    Lütkemöller, D. (Project manager, academic), Luenststaeden, B. (Project staff), Skubowius, K. M. (Project staff) & Beier, A. (Project staff)

    01.03.1301.12.13

    Project: Other

  5. Multiple Representations in Science Education

    Niebert, K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.02.13 → …

    Project: Research

  6. TEMI: Teaching Enquriy with Mysteries Incorporated

    Lembens, A. (Project manager, academic) & Abels, S. (Project staff)

    01.02.1331.07.16

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

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Publications

  1. Effect of salinity on filtration rates of mussels Mytilus edulis with special emphasis on dwarfed mussels from the low-saline Central Baltic Sea
  2. Gesundheitsfördernde Hochschulen
  3. Originäre und derivative Unternehmensgründung
  4. PRBs for remediation of PAHs, BTEX and related contaminants
  5. Der Überpapst
  6. Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften
  7. Organizational Behaviour - Verhalten in Organisationen
  8. Atomrecht im Wandel
  9. Crowdfunding
  10. Promoting decentralized sustainable energy systems in different supply scenarios
  11. Forschungsethik in der Kindheitsforschung - Dilemmata, Standards und Reflexionen für das Forschen über, zu und mit Kindern
  12. Stakeholder expectations on CSR management and current regulatory developments in Europe and Germany
  13. Organizational working time regimes
  14. Democratising platform governance in the sharing economy
  15. Big Drama - Small Spaces
  16. Max Weber and the Modern Problem of Discipline
  17. Mainstream und Gegenwartskunst
  18. Habitusformen von Eltern im Kontext der Computerspielnutzung ihrer Kinder
  19. Entscheidung
  20. Internationaler Personaleinsatz
  21. Flipped Classroom am Beispiel aktiven Lernens in der Vorlesung
  22. Der ‚Zürcher Stil der Politikphilosophie’
  23. Strengthening and ductilizing of magnesium alloying with heavy rare earth elements
  24. Clouds and Balloons
  25. Fast Car
  26. Von 1700 bis ins 3. Jahrtausend
  27. THE RADICAL ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN POLITICAL IMAGINATION AND PRODUCTION OF COMMON FUTURE IN BELARUSIAN PROTESTS
  28. Die Berufsbetreuung
  29. Selbstopfer der Naturburschen
  30. Prüfung von Nachhaltigkeitsberichten
  31. Prozessanalytische Modellierung von Wissenskommunikation in chat-basiertem CSCL
  32. KomPädenZ-ein Projekt zur Anrechnung erworbenen Wissens unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Gender-Mainstreaming-Prinzips
  33. Organisatorische Änderungsprozesse
  34. Ownership Structure and Firm Performance in the Egyptian Manufacturing Sector
  35. Jenseits von Kontemplation und Aktion
  36. Nachhaltigkeit
  37. Über den sinn von Thematisierungstabus und die unmöglichkeit einer soziologischen analyse der soziologie
  38. Zusammenhänge und Mechanismen
  39. Reading the Digital City
  40. Hamburg’s Family Literacy Project (FLY) in the context of international trends and recent evaluation findings
  41. Wirtschaftswende durch nachhaltiges Unternehmertum
  42. Mindfulness training at school
  43. Alien flora of mountains
  44. COVID-19-related fear, stress and depression in school principals