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. Lebenswelt Hochschule (als Teilprojekt des interdisziplinären Gesamtprojekts „Nachhaltige Entwicklung im Kontext universitärer Aufgabenstellungen“)

    Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Paulus, P. (Project manager, academic) & Rieckmann, M. (Project staff)

    01.07.0430.06.07

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  2. Heupelletierung: Machbarkeitsstudie zur Pelletierung von Biomasse

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic) & Müller, J. (Project staff)

    01.07.0430.11.04

    Project: Practical Project

  3. Strategische Umweltprüfung und strategisches Umweltmonitoring für Offshore-Windenergieanlagen

    Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic), Nehls, G. (Partner) & Runge, K. (Partner)

    01.07.0431.08.05

    Project: Research

  4. AutoUni: Sustainability Management in the M.Sc. programme "Sustainable Mobility" of the Volkswagen AutoUni

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic) & Hasenmüller, P. (Project staff)

    01.07.0431.12.04

    Project: Transfer (professional training)

  5. Sustainable University: Sustainable University

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic), Adomßent, M. (Coordination), Godemann, J. (Coordination), Burandt, S. (Project staff), Barth, M. (Project staff) & Rieckmann, M. (Project staff)

    01.07.0431.12.07

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  6. Internetgestützte Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung der DAX 30-Unternehmen in Kooperation mit dem Centre for Sustainability Management, CSM

    Godemann, J. (Project manager, academic), Herzig, C. (Project manager, academic) & Blanke, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.06.0401.12.04

    Project: Research

  7. Monitoring gentechnisch veränderter Organismen. Supranationale und deutsche Rechtsfragen des Monitorings transgener Pflanzen zur Erforschung hypothetischer Risiken

    Regenbrecht, G. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)

    25.04.0417.01.05

    Project: Dissertation project

  8. Ökologische Ökonomik Modellierung und konzeptionelle Fundierung am Beispiel von Beweidung in semi-ariden Gebieten

    Baumgärtner, S. (Project manager, academic) & Frank, K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.0430.09.07

    Project: Research

  9. Sozio-politische Partizipation: Kollektive Identität als Ziel (DFG SI-428/14-1)

    Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic) & Simon, B. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.0431.03.07

    Project: Research

  10. Die Wassergesetzgebung im Herzogtum Braunschweig nach Bauernbefreiung und industrieller Revolution

    Behrens, C. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)

    10.03.0429.01.09

    Project: Dissertation project

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Publications

  1. Unternehmensteuerreform 2008
  2. Nomadische Treibhäuser
  3. Internetgestützte Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung
  4. Mehr als Kugel, Würfel und Quader
  5. Erzählen - Argumentieren - Beschreiben
  6. Umwälzung der Erde
  7. Nutzung von Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement-Software in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen
  8. Gründungsberatung
  9. Author Correction
  10. Influence of Nd in extruded Mg10Gd base alloys on fatigue strength
  11. The logic of interdisciplinarity
  12. Bohle, Dorothee, und Béla Greskovits. Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery. Ithaca/London. Cornell University Press 2012
  13. Optimal Heat-Matched Cogeneration of Energy in a Firm Owned Power Station
  14. Putting benign by design into practice-novel concepts for green and sustainable pharmacy
  15. Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag (§ 682)
  16. Concentración y extranjerización de tierras productivas en Colombia
  17. Sinnstiftung durch Unterbrechung
  18. Applicability of the European Commission's framework on safe and sustainable by design to the pharmaceutical sector
  19. Herbivore and pollinator responses to grassland management intensity along experimental changes in plant species richness
  20. Moral licensing and corporate social responsibility
  21. Ad Hoc Expert Panels: Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs)
  22. It pays to be active on many foreign markets
  23. The Top 100 Companies Panel Database
  24. Menschen und Singvögel
  25. Verbesserung des deutschen Corporate-Governance-Systems durch eine Kompetenzerweiterung von Prüfungsausschüssen des Aufsichtsrats?
  26. Positive intercropping effects on biomass production are species-specific and involve rhizosphere enzyme activities