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. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  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. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. NAVEBGO: Eine Strategie zur NAchhaltigen VErringerung des Biozideintrags in das Grundwasser am Oberrhein

    Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic) & Olsson, O. (Project staff)

    Europäische Union

    01.01.1930.09.22

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  9. Eine Trainingsstudie zum sozialen und emotionalen Lernen im Kindergarten

    Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.0831.05.12

    Project: Research

  10. Eine Trainingsstudie zum sozialen und emotionalen Lernen im Kindergarten

    Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.0831.05.12

    Project: Research

  11. ELAN-III: „Einführung in die Nachhaltigkeit“

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.0731.12.08

    Project: Research

  12. Einführungsphase und Begleitangebot Td Projekte/Master Sustainability Science

    Vilsmaier, U. (Project manager, academic) & Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.1230.04.15

    Project: Teaching

  13. Einsatz von Gamification am Beispiel von Artenschutzsensibilisierung

    Abels, S. (Project manager, academic) & Krebs, A.-K. (Project staff)

    01.10.2330.09.25

    Project: Research

  14. E-Learning basierte Einführungskurse in das Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement und die Betriebswirtschaftslehre (sowie inhaltsbezogen studienrelevante Englisch-Kompetenzen)

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic), Velte, P. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Kaliampos, J. (Project staff) & Blume, C. (Project staff)

    01.05.1730.09.17

    Project: Other

  15. EMA Links - Environmental Management Accounting and the Links between Different Levels of Decision-Making

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Hahn, T. (Project staff) & Burritt, R. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.0031.03.02

    Project: Research

  16. Energieeinsparung in Schulen durch Änderung des Nutzerverhaltens

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic) & Ebert, A. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.9531.12.97

    Project: Research

  17. EnOB Leuphana: Energieoptimiertes Bauen: Klimaneutraler Campus Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

    Ruck, W. (Project manager, academic) & Keller, H. (Coordination)

    01.10.1031.12.17

    Project: Research

  18. EQM:Hydraulik: Energie- und Qualitätsmanagement gegen Korrosion und Belagbildung in hydraulischen Systemen; Teilvorhaben: Untersuchung von Schadensbildern

    Ruck, W. (Project manager, academic), Opel, O. (Project manager, academic), Otte, T. (Project staff) & Eggerichs, T. (Project staff)

    01.01.1530.11.18

    Project: Research

  19. Nachhaltige Mobilität: Energiewende - Szenarien und Handlungsoptionen

    Opel, O. (Project manager, academic), Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic) & Luthardt, P. (Partner)

    01.04.1401.04.15

    Project: Teaching

  20. TM 1.1 KT 10 - EnERgioN: EnERgioN - Erzeugung, Speicherung und Vermarktung von erneuerbaren Energien in der Region Nord (Kompetenztandem-Projekt)

    Degenhart, H. (Project manager, academic), Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic), Schulz, D. N. (Project manager, academic), Holstenkamp, L. (Coordination), Grumm, F. (Project staff), Maly, C. (Project staff), Meister, M. (Project staff), Storjohann, J. (Project staff), Stecher, M. (Project staff), Obbelode, F. (Project staff), Doliwa, M. (Project staff), Kowallik, J. (Project staff), Storjohann, J. (Project staff), Olsen, B. E. (Project manager, academic), Gaines, S. (Project staff) & Peeters, M. (Project staff)

    Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank

    01.02.1231.12.15

    Project: Research

  21. Entwicklung eines Regelungskonzepts für ein Ressourcenschutzrecht des Bundes

    Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic) & Sanden, J. (Partner)

    01.09.0929.10.12

    Project: Research

  22. ZIM Korrosionssensor: Entwicklung eines Sensors zur kontinuierlichen Überwachung von Korrosions- und Belagbildungsprozessen

    Ruck, W. (Project manager, academic) & Opel, O. (Project staff)

    01.11.1212.04.16

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  23. DBU Antibiotikum: Entwicklung eines umweltverträglichen Antibiotikums

    Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic), Leder, C. (Project staff) & Rastogi, T. (Project staff)

    01.11.1430.04.18

    Project: Research

  24. 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

  25. Entwicklung, Erprobung und Evaluierung von Pilotmodulen für einen praxisorientierten Fernstudiengang zur Weiterbildung kommunaler Angestellter in Lettland.

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic) & Lütkemöller, D. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.9931.12.00

    Project: Research

  26. EEVA: Entwicklung, Erprobung und Verbreitung neuer Qualifizierungsangebote für "Change Agents" zu transformativem Lernen am Beispiel Reallabore

    Barth, M. (Project manager, academic) & Bernert, P. (Project manager, academic)

    23.10.1722.12.20

    Project: Research

  27. Entwicklungsteam "Reflexionsanlässe im gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Sachunterricht"

    Meyn, J. (Project manager, academic) & Fischer, D. (Project manager, academic)

    01.07.2430.06.25

    Project: Teaching

  28. Entwicklung von Instrumenten zur Vermeidung von Lebensmittelabfällen

    Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.1231.03.14

    Project: Research

  29. Environmental Communication among the Media and Environmental NGOs in Malaysia

    Mohamad Saleh, M. S. (Project staff) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1330.09.16

    Project: Dissertation project

  30. EMA-SEA: Environmental Management Accounting for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in South-East Asia

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Viere, T. (Project staff) & Herzig, C. (Project staff)

    01.11.0331.10.07

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  31. Ermittlung der "Critical Loads" von Stickstoffdepositionen in Calluna-dominierten Küstenheiden

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

    01.11.1201.11.15

    Project: Research

  32. Erneuerbare Energien und Energieeffizienz im Wärmemarkt

    Ahlbrink, M. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)

    14.05.1430.09.17

    Project: Dissertation project

  33. ESD for 2030: Lernen für und in resiliente(n) und nachhaltige(n) Kommunen

    Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Bürgener, L. (Coordination) & Drautz, S. (Project staff)

    01.01.2131.12.24

    Project: Research

  34. Ethiopia’s sustainable land management practices: lessons for ecosystem restoration

    Duguma, D. W. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.2631.12.29

    Project: Research

  35. EUROPATHS

    Plewig, H.-J. (Project manager, academic)

    Europäische Union

    31.12.0730.06.17

    Project: Research

  36. EBEB: European Business Environmental Barometer

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Wagner, M. (Project staff), Dyllick, T. (Partner) & Ytterhus, B. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.0128.02.02

    Project: Research

  37. EDGE: Evaluating the Delivery of participatory environmenal Governance using an Evidence-based research design

    Newig, J. (Project manager, academic), Jager, N. W. (Project staff) & Challies, E. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.1131.03.16

    Project: Research

  38. KUKA: Evaluation der Kronsberg-Umwelt-Kommunikations-Agentur

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic) & Danner, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.9931.12.01

    Project: Research

  39. Evaluation der Sportgerichtsurteile des HFV der Saison 2007/2008

    Zick, A. (Project manager, academic), Winands, M. (Project staff) & Scherer, J. (Project staff)

    01.06.0830.09.10

    Project: Research

  40. Evaluation des Greenteam-Konzepts in Deutschland

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic), Degenhardt, L. (Project manager, academic), Godemann, J. (Project manager, academic) & Molitor, H. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.9931.08.00

    Project: Research

  41. EXIST Gründungsstipendium "ReGenerationLand"

    Hörisch, J. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.2531.08.26

    Project: Research

  42. EXIST-SEED: Management - Outsourcing - Energiecontrollingsoftware

    Langerfeldt, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.0530.09.06

    Project: Research

  43. Exkursion Energiewende: Wilhelmsburger Energieprojekte mit dem Rad erkunden

    Hansen, E. G. (Project manager, academic) & Sommereisen, T. (Project staff)

    21.09.14 → …

    Project: Teaching

  44. Exploring the psychology of an energy technology partnership: the case of hydrogen in mobility

    Upham, P. (Project manager, academic) & Bögel, P. M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1801.10.19

    Project: Research

  45. BMU-Fachdialog: Fachdialog "Nachhaltigkeit in der Unternehmensberichterstattung"

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic) & Herzig, C. (Project staff)

    01.07.0431.12.04

    Project: Research

  46. Factors controlling plant invasion: community niche, vegetation structure and local adaptation

    Haider, S. (Project manager, academic), Pahl, A. T. (Project manager, academic) & Kollmann, J. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.1131.12.14

    Project: Research

  47. Fallsammlung des Lehrens und Lernens

    Niebert, K. (Project manager, academic), Gropengiesser, H. (Project manager, academic) & Dannemann, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.08.1201.04.13

    Project: Research

  48. Faunistische und botanische Untersuchungen

    Temperton, V. (Project manager, academic)

    02.09.1930.04.22

    Project: Other

  49. Wildpark: Feasibility study as part of a qualification campaign in environmental education in a wildlife park

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic) & Lüdeke-Freund, F. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.0626.08.09

    Project: Research

  50. FLOWS: Flood Plain Land Use Optimising Workable Sustainability

    Urban, B. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.0409.11.09

    Project: Research

  51. Föderung wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs - Nachhaltige Chemie

    Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.2231.03.26

    Project: Research

  52. FoodLabHome

    Abels, S. (Project manager, academic) & Pleißner, D. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1830.09.21

    Project: Research

  53. Food Policy Councils: Levers for Sustainability Transformation?

    Sieveking, A. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.1630.04.20

    Project: Dissertation project

  54. FoLe-Diklusiv: Forschendes Lernen mit digitalen Medien als Beitrag zu erfolgreicher Inklusion

    Stinken-Rösner, L. (Project manager, academic) & Abels, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.2228.02.23

    Project: Research

  55. F.B.E.Leuchtpol: Forschung.Beratung.Evaluation.Leuchtpol

    Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Benoist, B. (Project staff), Kosler, T. (Project staff) & Moths, K. (Project staff)

    01.01.0931.12.12

    Project: Research

  56. Forschungsgewächshau für Biodiversität & Ökosystemfunktion

    Haider, S. (Project manager, academic)

    Europäische Union

    01.01.2631.03.28

    Project: Research

  57. Forschungskostenz. Stipendium Evely Araripe

    Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.11.2131.03.22

    Project: Individual grant

  58. Forschungs- und Beratungsprojekte der Inkubator Gastprofessur Management der Energiewende

    Hansen, E. G. (Project manager, academic) & Revellio, F. (Project manager, academic)

    01.11.1331.07.15

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  59. Forschungszuschuss Beatriz Vizuete

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

    01.01.2631.12.27

    Project: Research

  60. FRA.ME: Wissenschaftlerinnen Mentoring an der Universität Lüneburg

    Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic) & Thiem, A. (Project manager, academic)

    01.07.0418.06.07

    Project: Research

  61. FDS-G: Fühlen Denken Sprechen in der Grundschule - Fortbildung zur durchgängigen inhaltsorientierten Sprachförderung für alle Betreuungspersonen - Teilprojekt Emotionsentwicklung

    Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic), Voltmer, K. (Project manager, academic), Koch, K. (Partner), Langlotz, M. (Partner) & Hormann, O. (Partner)

    01.12.2230.11.26

    Project: Research

  62. BISS-FDS: Fühlen Denken Sprechen: Professionalisierung alltagsintegrierter sprachlicher Bildung bei ein- und mehrsprachlich aufwachsenden Kindern

    Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic), Mähler, C. (Project manager, academic), Cloos, P. (Project manager, academic) & Koch, K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.1631.01.20

    Project: Research

  63. Future generations in present-day democracy. The theory and practice of proxy representation.

    Rose, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.1206.12.16

    Project: Dissertation project