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. Interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit zur Vorhersage und Verhinderung von Naturkatastrophen

    Evers, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1031.08.15

    Project: Research

  2. WiN: Wirtschaften in Netzen – Stärkung regionaler Absatzmärkte für KMU als Beitrag zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung der Region

    Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic), Lang, F. J. (Project staff), Burandt, A. (Project staff), Schrader, R. (Project staff), Thiem, A. (Project staff) & Japsen, A. (Project staff)

    Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank

    01.08.1031.12.15

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  3. EIGEN: Efficient inter- and intragenerationally just use of ecosystem services - Sustainability-economic analysis of trade-offs in biodiversity and fishery policy

    Baumgärtner, S. (Project manager, academic), Quaas, M. F. (Project manager, academic), Hoberg, N. (Project staff), Stumpf, K. H. (Project staff), Voss, R. (Project staff), Glotzbach, S. (Project staff), Fünfgelt, J. (Project staff), Döring, R. (Partner), Schmidt, J. (Partner) & Becker, C. (Project staff)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.07.1031.10.13

    Project: Research

  4. AnSCHub 2010: Social Entrepreneurship Conference

    Beckmann, M. (Project manager, academic) & Zeyen, A. (Project staff)

    European Haniel Program on Entrepreneurship and the Humanities

    01.05.1002.03.11

    Project: Scientific event

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Researchers

  1. Senan Gardiner

Publications

  1. Kindliches Schweigen oder taube Institutionen?
  2. Was bewirken sprachliche Variationen von Aufgabenkontexten für das Schreiben von argumentativen Schülertexten?
  3. Sustainable human resource management and job satisfaction—Unlocking the power of organizational identification
  4. New Social Movements and Smaller Parties
  5. The role of past interactions in great apes' communication about absent entities
  6. The elephant in the room
  7. No Roots
  8. Reality tv und reality computing - von der wundersamen Vermehrung der Realität
  9. German works councils and productivity
  10. Death of an Art Critic
  11. A landscape-level study on the breeding site characteristics of ten amphibian species in Central Europe
  12. Profitables Wachstum durch Neukundengewinnung
  13. Professionalisierung der Lehrkräfte
  14. Barrieren auf dem Weg nach oben
  15. Scientific priorities and shepherds' perceptions of ungulate's contributions to people in rewilding landscapes
  16. Notting Hill Gate 3 Basic
  17. (Pop)Kulturelle Öffentlichkeiten im Kontext der Neuen Rechten
  18. Umwelt- und Technikkonflikte
  19. Die Privatisierung des Politischen bei Carl Schmitt
  20. Außer der Reihe
  21. Lebensalter
  22. Energy Transition in Germany
  23. Climate Policy Cooperation Games between Developed and Developing Nations
  24. Music consumption at the dawn of the music industry
  25. The International Climate Psychology Collaboration
  26. Gaia's Game
  27. Das Geschäft mit der Welt aus Eis
  28. Emotionen im Straßenverkehr
  29. Rationalität im Gespräch – Rationality in Conversation
  30. Genealogie
  31. Die Aufgabe der Erinnerung in der Pädagogik