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. EIGEN: Efficient inter- and intragenerationally just use of ecosystem services - Sustainability-economic analysis of trade-offs in biodiversity and fishery policy

    Baumgärtner, S. (Project manager, academic), Quaas, M. F. (Project manager, academic), Hoberg, N. (Project staff), Stumpf, K. H. (Project staff), Voss, R. (Project staff), Glotzbach, S. (Project staff), Fünfgelt, J. (Project staff), Döring, R. (Partner), Schmidt, J. (Partner) & Becker, C. (Project staff)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.07.1031.10.13

    Project: Research

  2. Effects of woody species diversity and composition on individual plant growth and demography

    Härdtle, W. (Project manager, academic) & Fichtner, A. (Project manager, academic)

    19.02.1412.04.19

    Project: Research

  3. ESuDis: Effects of land management on the Supply and Distribution of ecosystem services

    Martín-López, B. (Project manager, academic), Felipe-Lucia, M. R. (Project manager, academic) & Isaac, R. (Project staff)

    13.07.2031.12.23

    Project: Research

  4. Effects of climate and land use on the functional composition of plant communities and their ecosystem services

    Haider, S. (Project manager, academic) & Kühn, I. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.1431.12.16

    Project: Research

  5. BINK: Educational Institutions and Sustainable Consumption

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic), Fischer, D. (Project manager, academic) & Richter, S. (Project manager, academic)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.06.0830.04.12

    Project: Research

  6. EdFCA: Educating Future Change Agents - Higher Education as a Motor of the Sustainability Transformation

    Barth, M. (Project manager, academic), Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Halberstadt, J. (Project manager, academic) & Wiek, A. (Project staff)

    01.03.1630.04.20

    Project: Research

  7. Ecosystem services of temperate rainforests in the western US

    von Wehrden, H. (Project manager, academic) & Brandt, P. (Project staff)

    01.08.1231.07.13

    Project: Research

  8. Ecological valuation of crop pollination in traditional indonesian homegardens

    Klein, A.-M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.1109.09.13

    Project: Research

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Publications

  1. Diversity matters: the influence of gender diversity on the environmental orientation of entrepreneurial ventures
  2. Klassenwiederholen in PISA-I-Plus
  3. Family Literacy in Hamburg
  4. Einleitung
  5. Stakeholder engagement in Water Framework Directive planning in the United Kingdom: Two case studies from Northern Ireland and Scotland
  6. Happy and proactive ?
  7. Modelling elephant corridors over two decades reveals opportunities for conserving connectivity across a large protected area network
  8. Bildung in Bildern
  9. Art and the Economy of Attention: On the 1% - the 100 Most Expensive Works of Art
  10. Kritik des Ästhetischen - Ästhetik der Kritik
  11. Ein kleiner Ausblick: Forschungskorridore zum "fachdidaktischen Code" der Lebenswelt- und/oder Situationsorientierung
  12. Forbidden love“ – narratives of love, belonging and deviance in adolescence
  13. Die Erotik des Blicks
  14. Feasibility study of friction stir joining of aluminium with carbon fibre reinforced thermoplastic composite
  15. Konstruktion von Unternehmenswerten
  16. International Investment Law and Its Others
  17. Fazit und Ausblick
  18. Geschäftsmodelle für unternehmerische Nachhaltigkeit
  19. Partizipation
  20. Moderne Menschen, Neue Sachlichkeit
  21. Carbon turnover in a crop rotation under free air CO 2 enrichment (FACE)
  22. Kognitiv anspruchsvoller Unterricht
  23. Localization of Passengers Inside Intelligent Vehicles by the Use of Ultra Wideband Radars
  24. Kollaboratives Problemlösen in PISA 2015
  25. Fracking, Sovereignty over Natural Resources and International Investment Law
  26. Barrel Finishing of Magnesium Alloys
  27. Rivalität, Konflikt und Freiheit