School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Faculty
- 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.
NaKoV: Development and implementation of an integrated sustainability management system in the local public sector, based on the sub-projects “Accounting System Reform” (Freiburg) and “Administrative Reform in the Case of Energy Management (Lüneburg)”
Heinrichs, H., Lang, D. J., Kirst, E. & Plawitzki, J.
01.05.12 → 30.04.17
Project: Research
CLIMASP: Development of an Interdisciplinary Programme on Climate Change and Sustainability Policy
Michelsen, G., Mader, M. & Mader, C.
01.12.13 → 31.03.19
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Biomasse: Development of a practice-proven method to simultaneously dehydrate and pelletize agricultural biomass
Schaltegger, S. & Lüdeke-Freund, F.
07.12.06 → 14.11.09
Project: Research
Aquiferspeicher: Development of Areas of Application of Middle Deep Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage in Northern Germany from Economic, Geological-Technical, Environmental Chemistry and Legal/Subsidy Policy Perspectives; work packages: Economic, Environmental Chemistry and Legal Analysis of Aquifer Storage
Degenhart, H., Holstenkamp, L., Schomerus, T., Opel, O., Strodel, N. & Neidig, P.
01.04.16 → 30.06.19
Project: Research
MECS: DFG-Kolleg-Forschergruppe MECS (Medienkulturen der Computersimulation)
Pias, C., Warnke, M., Vehlken, S., Schrape, N., Schrickel, I., Stöcklmayr, N., Engemann, C., Winter, F. & Wellmann, J.
01.01.13 → 31.07.22
Project: Research
Didaktische Zugänge zum Thema Handy im Kontext der BNE
01.07.13 → 23.03.18
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Die Auswirkungen des Atomausstiegs in Deutschland auf Strompreise und Klimaschutz in Deutschland und Europa
Kemfert, C. & Schill, W. P.
01.01.12 → 30.04.12
Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)
EcoCab: Die autarke und nachhaltige Niedrigenergiekabine; Teilprojekt: Wissenschaftliche Begleitung der Entwicklung einer Schiffskabine nach Cradle to Cradle Kriterien und Systemdesignanforderungen
01.04.19 → 31.12.22
Project: Transfer (professional training)
Die Bedeutung unterschiedlicher Kontexte von Umweltbildung für Nachhaltigkeitsbewußtsein
Michelsen, G., Degenhardt, L., Godemann, J. & Molitor, H.
01.03.98 → 31.08.01
Project: Research
Die Berücksichtigung gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen in der Konzeption des Integrated Reporting
01.04.14 → 14.12.17
Project: Dissertation project
Die Entwicklung der energierechtlichen Pflichten der Übertragungsnetzbetreiber
17.06.06 → 26.08.10
Project: Dissertation project
Die Haftung des Grundstückeigentümers für die Sanierung von Altlasten
25.01.05 → 18.12.07
Project: Dissertation project
Die Konkretisierung der abfallrechtlichenProduktverantwortung für Reifen in Deutschland
26.07.06 → 13.08.08
Project: Dissertation project
Die Natur des Ländlichen. Zur Konzeption gesellschaftlicher Naturverhältnisse in ländlichen Räumen (Arbeitstitel)
01.12.09 → 19.12.18
Project: Research
Die Nutzung ökologischer Potenziale von Buchenwäldern für eine multifunktionale Bewirtschaftung
Fichtner, A., Dolnik, C., Ellenberg, H., Fähser, L., Hampicke, U., Heeschen, G., Irmler, U., Lüderitz, M., Lütt, S., Rasran, L., Schäfer, A., Schrautzer, J., Sturm, K., Vahder, S., Vogt, K. & Wagner, J.
01.04.07 → 31.12.08
Project: Research