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.

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  1. Our common future: Biokunststoffe = umweltfreundlich?

    Abels, S. (Project manager, academic), Pleißner, D. (Project manager, academic) & Reichelt, A. (Partner, non-academic)

    Robert-Bosch Foundation

    16.10.1731.01.20

    Project: Practical Project

  2. COUPLED: Operationalising telecouplings for solving sustainability challenges related to land use

    Newig, J. (Project manager, academic), Coenen, J. (Project staff) & Challies, E. (Project staff)

    Europäische Union

    01.01.1830.06.22

    Project: Research

  3. OpenNESS: OPERATIONALISATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

    Martín-López, B. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1331.05.17

    Project: Research

  4. Online-CSR-Kommunikation börsennotierter Unternehmen in der DACH-Region

    Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic), Bögel, P. M. (Project manager, academic), Hetze, K. (Project manager, academic) & Glock, Y. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1531.01.19

    Project: Transfer (professional training)

  5. Ölpflanzen als Zwischenfrüchte; Teilvorhaben 1: Analyse der Stakeholder-Akzeptanz und politische Rahmenbedingungen

    Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic), Noboa, E. (Project staff) & Laws, N. (Project staff)

    01.07.1501.01.17

    Project: Research

  6. Ökonomische Folgen des Freizeitverhaltens im Wald: Grundlagen zur Umsetzung des neuen Waldgesetzes im Kanton Basel-Land

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Kleiber, O. (Project staff) & Jenni, L. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.0031.12.02

    Project: Research

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  1. Die mosaische Unterscheidung oder der Preis des Monotheismus
  2. A Road to Conflict
  3. Grundwissen Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
  4. Response to Turnhout et al.’s rethinking biodiversity: From goods and services to “living with”
  5. PISA - eine Studie für Staaten oder für Kinder?
  6. The European Forest Plant Species List (EuForPlant)
  7. Investigation of the breeding systems of four Aizoaceae species in Namaqualand, South Africa
  8. Wahrnehmungseffiziente Managementberichte
  9. A game theoretic model of the Northwestern European electricity market-market power and the environment
  10. Deutschland - das Blockiererland (?)
  11. Wie Merkels „asymmetrische Demobilisierung“ zu knacken ist
  12. Die "Matheasse" in Jena - Erfahrungen und Materialien zur Förderung mathematisch interessierter Grundschüler
  13. Was ist Stakeholder Value?
  14. Kumulation von Querschnitten
  15. Social and ethical aspects in sustainability performance measurement and assessment. A systematic literature review
  16. Spanning Sustainability Management Boundaries
  17. Business owners' action planning and its relationship to business success in three African countries
  18. Die Bedeutung von Gender-Mainstreaming bei der Entwicklung von Anrechnungsverfahren
  19. The effect of chief financial officers’ expert power on tax avoidance – Empirical evidence from Germany
  20. Formatives Assessment im Mathematikunterricht: Berücksichtigung von Effekten generischer und fachspezifischer Unterrichtsqualität
  21. Gesellschaftliche Individualisierung und lebenslanges Lernen
  22. Notting Hill Gate 6
  23. Von rhetorischer zu organisationaler Realität?
  24. Kendinize bir hayat edinin!
  25. Unterricht im Lernbereich Globale Entwicklung
  26. Human capital investments in children - A comparative analysis of the role of parent-child shared time in selected countries
  27. Das Rätsel der Ankunft
  28. Soziale Medien als Technologien der Überwachung und Kontrolle
  29. (Review) The Shape of Spectatorship. Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany by Scott Curtis. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.
  30. Authoritarianism as a group phenomenon