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. KUKA: Evaluation der Kronsberg-Umwelt-Kommunikations-Agentur

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

    01.01.9931.12.01

    Project: Research

  2. Die Bedeutung unterschiedlicher Kontexte von Umweltbildung für Nachhaltigkeitsbewußtsein

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic), Degenhardt, L. (Project manager, academic), Godemann, J. (Project manager, academic) & Molitor, H. (Project manager, academic)

    01.03.9831.08.01

    Project: Research

  3. Zukunftsfähige Umweltbildung in der Lehrerbildung: Forschungsstand, Defizite und Notwendigkeiten

    Godemann, J. (Project manager, academic), Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic) & Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.9831.12.03

    Project: Research

  4. Tagung "Methoden in der Umweltbildungsforschung" (Jagdschloß Göhrde, 2.-5.12.1997)

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.9730.11.98

    Project: Scientific event

  5. Sukzessions- und Regenerationsmodelle, vegetationskundliche Referenzsysteme

    Härdtle, W. (Project manager, academic) & Redecker, B. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.9731.03.01

    Project: Research

  6. Entwicklung, Erprobung und Evaluierung eines Fernstudienganges Kommunaler Umweltschutz

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

    01.09.9631.08.99

    Project: Research

  7. Zukünftige Energiepolitik

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.9630.03.98

    Project: Research

  8. Umweltbildung in anderen Ländern und Kontinenten

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.9531.03.96

    Project: Scientific event

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Researchers

  1. Jana Bucher

Publications

  1. Im Dunkel der Sexualität
  2. Shifting images
  3. The funeral industry and the Internet
  4. Barley shoot biomass responds strongly to N:P stoichiometry and intraspecific competition, whereas roots only alter their foraging
  5. Cultural Evolution Shifts the Source of Happiness from Religion to Subjective Freedom
  6. Enhanced granular medium-based tube and hollow profile press hardening
  7. Mongolia
  8. Lost in Translation
  9. Astronaut
  10. Buchhaltung und Jahresabschluss
  11. Review on Hot Working Behavior and Strength of Calcium-Containing Magnesium Alloys
  12. Can solidarity be organized "from below" in global supply chains?
  13. Nachhaltigkeit in der Unternehmensberichterstattung
  14. Entwicklung eines Messstandes zur automatisierten Messung der radialen Lagerluft von Wälzlagern
  15. Berufstätigkeit in unsicheren Ländern
  16. Sense of coherence mediates the relationship between digital health literacy and anxiety about the future in aging population during the COVID-19 pandemic
  17. Red and green loops help uncover missing feedbacks in a coral reef social–ecological system
  18. Marktorientierte Markenbewertung
  19. Mapping the Links of Corporate Sustainability
  20. Article 78 CISG
  21. Boundary speak in sustainability studies
  22. Sustainable business models and sustainable supply chain management
  23. Maler und Modell - eine kultivierte Beziehung
  24. Analysis of the Influence of Fibers on the Formability of Metal Blanks in Manufacturing Processes for Fiber Metal Laminates
  25. Freie Berufe im Wandel der Arbeitsmärkte
  26. Digitalisierung - Chance oder Risiko für nachhaltigen Tourismus?
  27. Appointing female CEOs in risky and precarious firm circumstances.
  28. Kommunistische Parteien
  29. Genes versus environment
  30. Human Development
  31. Die neue Parallelgesellschaft
  32. Ausgewählte Kapitel der Theoretischen Informatik
  33. Mittelstandsförderung und Beschäftigung
  34. Goodbye Germany! The influence of personality and cognitive factors on the intention to work abroad
  35. Educating moral sensitivity in business
  36. Pollution exposure on marine protected areas

Press / Media

  1. Ausgezeichnete Firma