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. ComCoast: Combined Functions in Coastal Defence Zones

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

    01.01.0614.05.09

    Project: Research

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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)

  5. EXIST-SEED: Management - Outsourcing - Energiecontrollingsoftware

    Langerfeldt, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.0530.09.06

    Project: Research

  6. 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)

  7. 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

  8. Media, Expertise and Political Decision

    Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic) & Petersen, I. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.0501.01.07

    Project: Research

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Researchers

  1. Bettina Ülpenich

Publications

  1. The International Climate Psychology Collaboration
  2. International investment law and development
  3. Bushido
  4. Emotionen im Straßenverkehr
  5. Domestizierung, Alltag, Mediatisierung
  6. Beyond the Market
  7. Woody plant diversity, composition and structure in relation to environmental variables and land-cover types in Lake Wanchi watershed, central highlands of Ethiopia
  8. The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment
  9. The regulation of zero-price markets by the competition authorities in the USA and the EU
  10. Moréas, Jean [d. i. Joannis Papadiamantopoulos] (1856-1910)
  11. Strategic environmental assessment for the utilization of offshore wind energy
  12. Driving anger expression in Germany—Validation of the Driving Anger Expression Inventory for German drivers
  13. Simulationsbasierte Optimierung des Umgangs mit Chef-Aufträgen im Produktionsbetrieb
  14. Structural forces driving local responsiveness
  15. Screening for PBT chemicals among the “existing” and “new” chemicals of the EU
  16. Reisen als Möglichkeit eines Anderssein-Könnens
  17. From “Decent work and economic growth” to “Sustainable work and economic degrowth”
  18. Birkmeyer, Jens / Kleinknecht, Thomas / Reitemeyer, Ursula (Hg.): Erinnerungsarbeit in Schule und Gesellschaft
  19. The Ultimate Election Forecast
  20. Strenges Komponieren?
  21. Analysing the potential for sustainable e-mobility - The case of Germany
  22. Sieben Thesen zu Inter- und Transdisziplinarität und was daraus für das Studium folgt
  23. Automatische Konsolidierung von Seecontainern
  24. Der grenzüberschreitende Formwechsel in Europa nach Polbud
  25. AG 13: Vierte Arbeitstagung für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs in der Fremdsprachenforschung
  26. "Bowling alone together“
  27. Irreversibility and uncertainty cause an intergenerational equity-efficiency trade-off
  28. Postvinyl