School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Research School
- Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)
- Institute of Ecology
- Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- Institute of Sustainability Governance
- Institute of Sustainability Material Flows and Circularity
- Institute of Sustainability Psychology
- Institute of Sustainable Chemistry
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)
- Sustainability Education and Transdisciplinary Research Institute
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.
Topics
Als Träger der universitätsweiten Wissenschaftsinitiative Nachhaltigkeitsforschung fragt die Fakultät nach Bedingungen und Chancen einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung. Die Fakultät verbindet dazu Human- und Naturwissenschaften mit derzeit etwa 25 Professuren aus den Disziplinen Chemie, Informatik, Kommunikation, Management, Ökologie, Philosophie, Planung, Politik, Psychologie, Recht, Technik und VWL. Die transdisziplinären Arbeitsweisen in Forschung, Studium und Dienstleistungen zielen insbesondere darauf, zukünftige Entwicklungschancen für die Zivilgesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts zu schaffen und zu erhalten.
Reversible Reaktionen anorganischer Salze mit Alkoholen zur Wärmespeicherung
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.07.14 → 30.06.16
Project: Research
INNIG: Risk Culture: Communication and Representation of Risks Considering as Example Extreme Floods
Heinrichs, H. & Grunenberg, H.
01.02.05 → 31.12.06
Project: Research
RURAGRI-MULTAGRI: Rural development through governance of multifunctional agricultural land use (MULTAGRI). Work package 5: Governance challenges to encourage landscape-scale uptake of appropriate management actions
Newig, J., Fischer, J. & Klein, A.
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
29.08.13 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
Rural electrification in the Andean countries: analysis of policies that can accelerate off-grid PV adoption
15.11.13 → 21.11.17
Project: Dissertation project
SAFECOAST : SAFECOAST: "The informed society". Analysis and strategy development for risk communication and coastal protection
Heinrichs, H., Grunenberg, H., Knolle, M. & Lüdecke, G.
01.10.06 → 31.03.08
Project: Research
Schaufenster für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung
Stoltenberg, U. & Muraca, B.
01.02.02 → 01.10.03
Project: Research
TM 1.3 C FuE-Projekt 05: Schlüsselfaktor Ressourceneffizienz - ein Prüfsystem für KMU zur Verbesserung der Vollzugsfähigkeit von Umweltgesetzen am Beispiel des neuen Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetzes (KrWG)
Schomerus, T., Guerra González, J., Bleuel, I. & Japsen, A.
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.04.11 → 31.12.15
Project: Transfer (R&D project)