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.

  1. Published

    Sustainability innovations: a proposal for an analytical framework and its empirical application in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve

    Dabard, C. H. & Mann, C., 05.2023, In: Sustainability Science. 18, 3, p. 1085-1098 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Sustainability learnings from the COVID-19 crisis: Opportunities for resilient industry and business development

    Schaltegger, S., 26.08.2021, In: Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal. 12, 5, p. 889-897 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Sustainability Management

    Schaltegger, S., 2013, Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility. Idowu, S. O., Capaldi, N., Zu, L. & Das Gupta, A. (eds.). Heidelberg, New York: Springer, p. 2384-2388 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

  4. Published

    Sustainability management accounting – enabling macro-level sustainability transformation towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

    Christ, K. L., Dijkstra-Silva, S., Burritt, R. & Schaltegger, S., 25.04.2024, In: Meditari Accountancy Research. 32, 3, p. 923-944 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published
  6. Published

    Sustainability Management Control

    Schaltegger, S. & Burritt, R., 2011, Accounting for Climate Change - What and how to measure: EMAN-EU 2011 Conference, Proceedings. Csutora, M. & Kerekes, S. (eds.). p. 7-15 9 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Sustainability Management Control

    Schaltegger, S., 2011, Environmental Management Accounting and Supply Chain Management. Burritt, R., Schaltegger, S., Bennett, M., Pohjola, T. & Csutora, M. (eds.). Dordrecht: Springer, p. 337-352 15 p. (Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science (ECOE); no. 27).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Sustainability Management for Start-ups and Micro-Enterprises: Development of a Sustainability Quick-Check and Reporting Scheme

    Halberstadt, J. & Johnson, M., 2014, Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Environmental Informatics: Informatics for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Development and Risk Management. Gómez, J. M., Sonnenschein, M., Vogel, U., Winter, A., Rapp, B. & Giesen, N. (eds.). Universität Oldenburg, Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem, p. 17-24 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Sustainability Management for the Olympic and Paralymic Games in London 2012

    Berlemann, B., 2007, Lüneburg: Centre for Sustainability Management, 79 p.

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  10. Published

    Sustainability management from a responsible management perspective

    Beckmann, M., Schaltegger, S. & Landrum, N. E., 2020, Research handbook of responsible management. Laasch, O., Suddaby, R., Freeman, R. E. & Jamali, D. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 122-137 16 p. (Research Handbooks in Business and Management series).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

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  1. The Competitive Strategies of Ecopreneurs: Striving for Market Leadership by Promoting Sustainability
  2. Task choice shields against incidental affective influences on effort-related cardiovascular response
  3. Rezension zu: Hatzimihail, Nikitas, Preclassical Conflict of Laws, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 607 S.
  4. ephemera: theory and politics in organization. Special issue: "Immaterial and Affective Labour: Explored"
  5. Harald Fritsch, Vollendete Selbstmitteilung Gottes an seine Schöpfung. Die Eschatologie Karl Rahners
  6. A Study on the Performance of Adaptive Neural Networks for Haze Reduction with a Focus on Precision
  7. Stanley J. Grenz, Reason for Hope. The Systematic Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg. Grand Rapids u.a. 2005
  8. The effect of yield surface curvature change by cross hardening on forming limit diagrams of sheets
  9. Funktionsbedingungen der neuen Beschäftigungsverhältnisse - eine verhaltenswissenschaftliche Analyse?
  10. Microbial decomposition of soil organic matter is mediated by quality and quantity of crop residues
  11. Unterrichtshandeln von Lehrkräften und Schülern verbessern durch Förderung emotionaler Kompetenzen
  12. Die raum-zeitliche Verbreitung der Schmetterlinge von nährstoffarmen Mooren in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  13. Strategies for correcting the workpiece deformation during the manufacturing at the milling process
  14. Konsequenzen gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungstrends für Familie und private Lebensformen der Zukunft
  15. Heinrich Oberreuter (Hrsg.): Standortbestimmung Politische Bildung. Schwalbach/Ts.: Wochenschau Verlag 2009
  16. Development and Implementation of Technical Interventions to Motivate Young Females for STEM Studies
  17. Multidimensional Polarization of Income and Wealth: The Extent and Intensity of Poverty and Affluence
  18. The Carabus fauna of Israel - updated identification key, faunistics, and habitats (Coleoptera: Carabidae)