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. 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

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  1. Politische Strategie
  2. Socio-cultural valuation of ecosystem services
  3. Energiewende Erst reden, dann roden!
  4. Dual Reality: ( Un)Observed Magic in the Workplace
  5. Relationships between climate, productivity and vegetation in southern mongolian drylands
  6. On the Origins of the Anthropological Machine
  7. Special Issue: Weimar Photography: Bauhaus, Cultural Difference, Exile: Part 1
  8. Die Evaluation von Mündlichkeit
  9. Organizing Counterpublics: Scenes from Contemporary Russia
  10. Piketty und die Rechtswissenschaft im 21. Jahrhundert
  11. International Generalizability of Expatriate Success Project (iGOES)
  12. Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement
  13. Umweltbezogene Studienangebote -
  14. Health literacy and mental well-being of school staff in times of crisis
  15. Alphabetische Strategie
  16. Wagnis Zukunft: Braucht Vertrauen Transparenz?
  17. Derridas Doppelzüngigkeit. Zur Übersetzbarkeit von Schlangenwendungen
  18. »Freihandel und Investitionen auf fremden Märkten«
  19. Mathematical Literacy von Erwachsenen
  20. 7. Socio-Cultural and Religious Views on Prenatal Diagnosis in Israel and Germany
  21. Socio-economic analysis for the authorisation of chemicals under REACH
  22. Untergrundbewußtsein
  23. Von der Herrschaft der Technik zum Parlament der Dinge
  24. Basic Cost Accounting Terminology: An English-German Dictionary
  25. Führt die Neuordnung der Berufsaufsicht und externen Qualitätskontrolle der Wirtschaftsprüfer nach dem APAReG zu einer erhöhten Prüfungsqualität?
  26. Conserving the World's Finest Grassland Amidst Ambitious National Development
  27. Artikel 40 EUV [Kompetenzabgrenzung]
  28. Quelques considérations sur la fonction et la théorie du coup d'Ètat
  29. Schulinspektion - Fluch und Segen externer Evaluation
  30. Sustainable forest management augments diversity of vascular plants in German forests
  31. Der Traum vom „besseren“ Menschen
  32. Bildungskooperation international