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. Altitudinal distribution of non-native plants: the effects of climate, habitat and introduction history

    Haider, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.03.0631.12.10

    Project: Dissertation project

  2. ComCoast: Combined Functions in Coastal Defence Zones

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic) & Striegnitz, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.0614.05.09

    Project: Research

  3. MIREN: Mountain Invasion Research Network

    Haider, S. (Project manager, academic), Seipel, T. (Partner), Alexander, J. M. (Partner), Arévalo, J. R. (Partner), Küffer, C. (Partner), Lembrechts, J. J. (Partner), McDougall, K. (Partner), Pauchard, A. (Partner) & Rew, L. J. (Partner)

    01.01.06 → …

    Project: Research

  4. Biodiversity in Israel

    Aßmann, T. (Project manager, academic) & Drees, C. (Project staff)

    German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development

    01.11.0509.11.11

    Project: Research

  5. ILT MBA: International Leadership Training Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Grimm, J. (Project staff), Klinke, T. (Project staff) & Prox, M. (Project staff)

    01.11.0529.12.10

    Project: Transfer (professional training)

  6. EXIST-SEED: Management - Outsourcing - Energiecontrollingsoftware

    Langerfeldt, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.0530.09.06

    Project: Research

  7. ALFA: Project “International Master Program Sustainable Development and Management"

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic), Rieckmann, M. (Coordination), Barkin, D. (Partner), Berglund, S. (Partner), Böhmer, K. (Partner), Gonzalez, M. (Partner), Filippini, M. F. (Partner), Medellín Milán, P. (Partner), van Dam-Mieras, R. (Partner) & Vásquez Ríos, A. A. (Partner)

    15.08.0515.08.07

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  8. Mit dem Bus zur Schule

    Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Berthold, A. (Project staff), Baum, R. (Project staff) & Röpke, S. (Project staff)

    01.07.0531.12.05

    Project: Other

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Publications

  1. Simulating the fate and release of metazachlor and its transformation products metazachlor oxalic acid and sulfonic acid in a small-scale agricultural catchment
  2. Gibt es eine Wissenschaft des Fremden ?
  3. Antineoplastic compounds in the environment
  4. Magnesium melt protection
  5. Stand der Technik und fortschrittliche Ansätze in der Entsorgung des Flowback
  6. Das Itinerar der Dinge – Objekte und ihre Ordnung
  7. Kein Schaf sein
  8. Incentive Preferences of Employees in Germany and the United States
  9. Entwicklung einer Fallstudie für die Lehre im IT-gestützten Personalmanagement
  10. „Vom ‚Kunstrichter‘ zur ‚Schwarmintelligenz‘
  11. Scattered Attacks
  12. Genetic toxicology in silico protocol
  13. Gender Equality in Academia
  14. Reduction of the Microbial Load of Digestate by the Cultivation of Galdieria sulphuraria Under Acidic Conditions
  15. Wissenschaft & Wirtschaftspraxis
  16. Ambulantisierung der Jugendhilfe - Entwicklungsmöglichkeit oder Sackgasse
  17. Aquatic photochemistry, abiotic and aerobic biodegradability of thalidomide
  18. Do salient social norms moderate mortality salience effects? A (challenging) meta-analysis of terror management studies
  19. Participation in Residential Childcare.
  20. Trade Dynamics and Trade Costs
  21. Environmental risk assessment of anti-cancer drugs and their transformation products
  22. Remote? Präsenz? Hybrid? Blended?
  23. Kontingenzprobleme sozialer Interventionen
  24. Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in Schools in Europe
  25. Der Whole-Nation Bias in der empirischen Forschung
  26. Business model or strategy
  27. Vorwort
  28. Wie klingt der Fluss?
  29. Teilnehmende Beobachtung
  30. Computerspielnutzung aus Elternsicht