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.

191 - 200 out of 805Page size: 10
  1. Ecological function of semi-open corridors

    Aßmann, T. (Project manager, academic), Härdtle, W. (Partner) & Nolte, D. (Project staff)

    01.07.1231.07.16

    Project: Research

  2. 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

  3. 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)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.03.1630.04.20

    Project: Research

  4. 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

  5. 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

Recently viewed

Publications

  1. Buch 11: Justizielle Zusammenarbeit in der Europäischen Union
  2. Außervertragliche Haftung der EG, legislatives Unrecht
  3. Monstrous Bodies in Rudolf Virchow's Medical Collection in Nineteenth-Century Germany
  4. Durchlässigkeit 3.0 - Studienabbrecher als Zielgruppe Beruflicher Bildung
  5. Richard Caddell and Erik J. Molenaar, eds., Strengthening International Fisheries Law in an Era of Changing Oceans (Oxford/Portland: Hart Publishing, 2019), 512 pp.
  6. Philippe Parreno at Schinkel Pavillon and Esther Schipper
  7. Die Verschuldungskapazität
  8. Intangible Assets und Goodwill im Spannungsfeld zwischen Entscheidungsrelevanz und Verlässlichkeit
  9. VG Göttingen: Kein umfassender Meldedatenabgleich durch Beitragsservice
  10. Vorausschauend Kriterien Nachhaltiger Chemie integrieren:
  11. Messung und Steuerung unternehmerischer Nachhaltigkeit
  12. Vom Luxuskonsum zum Standardpaket
  13. Russischer Lieferboykott bei Gas?
  14. Para além dos muros da escola
  15. Social capital, voluntary associations and collective action
  16. Verhindern und Normieren.
  17. (Sprach-)Philosophie der Liebe - Figuren des Sozialen
  18. Rechtswissenschaftliches Arbeiten
  19. Entrepreneurship and Poverty Reduction
  20. Entscheidungsanmerkung zu BGH, Urteil vom 13.01.2012 - V ZR 136/11
  21. Utopie, Physiologie und Technologie des Fernsprechens
  22. Hörbücher und das simultane Lesen und Hören im Deutschunterricht
  23. Mehrebenen-Steuerung in Universitäten
  24. Selbstregulationskompetenz beim Lernen aus Sachtexten Entwicklung und Evaluation eines Kompetenzstrukturmodells
  25. Buchhaltung und Jahresabschluß
  26. Randgänge der Aufzeichnung
  27. Tekstowanie Hegiraskopu Stuarta Moulthropa
  28. Vom hafen zur city - Städtebauliche projekte im hamburger hafen
  29. Ab in die Mitte...?
  30. Spielen für den guten Zweck
  31. PowerPoint. Präsentieren in Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft
  32. Economics of Life Cycle Assessment
  33. Pädagogische Berufsarbeit und Zufriedenheit
  34. "Das Runde muss ins Eckige"