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

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Researchers

  1. Paul Zeise

Publications

  1. UVP und vorzeitiger Beginn
  2. Web-based depression treatment for type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients
  3. Die Rolle der Lehrerpersönlichkeit angesichts der Möglichkeiten digitaler Technik
  4. EU Asylum Policies
  5. RAF und der neue "Faschismus"
  6. Johannes Zachhuber: Theology as Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany: From F. C. Baur to Ernst Troeltsch
  7. Kognitive Aktivierung und Strukturierung durch Aufgaben
  8. A Place Apart: Opportunities in Developing
  9. Gendersensible Didaktik
  10. Institutional rearrangements in the north Luangwa ecosystem
  11. Hast du heute schon gelebt?
  12. Ecological and social outcomes of urbanization on regional farming systems
  13. Appointing to Govern: Party Patronage in Europe
  14. Nachhaltigen Konsum fördern durch partizipative Interventionsentwicklung in Bildungseinrichtungen
  15. Quantum chemical calculation of the vapor pressure of volatile and semi volatile organic compounds
  16. No Roots
  17. Gefährder
  18. Books on World Art from the 1920s
  19. Abschluss des Vertrages
  20. Trainingslager mit Kindern und Jugendlichen
  21. Buche oder Eiche
  22. Gewalt
  23. Das Management der Kunden
  24. Ertrags-/Risikooptimierung von Nachhaltigkeitsfonds
  25. Das Subjekt und die Atmosphären, durch die es ist
  26. Environmental and operational sustainability of airports
  27. Exports and productivity
  28. Partizipation als reflexive Praxis im Hilfeplangespräch?
  29. Der Zusammenhang von Schulleitungshandeln, Unterrichtsgestaltung und Lernerfolg
  30. Four decades of research on alexithymia
  31. The sources of international investment law
  32. Profitables Wachstum durch Neukundengewinnung