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

    Strategisch fundiertes Nachhaltigkeitscontrolling – Konzeption und Umsetzung in der Praxis

    Schaltegger, S. & Zvezdov, D., 2012, Nachhaltigkeitscontrolling - Konzepte, Instrumente und Fallbeispiele für die Umsetzung. Gleich, R., Bartels, P. & Breisig, V. (eds.). Freiburg: Haufe Mediengruppe, p. 45-66 22 p. (Der Controlling-Berater; no. 21).

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

  2. Published

    Strategy for phytomanagement in an area affected by iron ore dam rupture: A study case in Minas Gerais State, Brazil

    Zago, V. C. P., das Dores, N. C. & Watts, B. A., 01.06.2019, In: Environmental Pollution. 249, p. 1029-1037 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Stratification of stakeholders for participation in the governance of coastal social-ecological systems

    Celliers, L., Rölfer, L., Rivers, N., Rosendo, S., Fernandes, M., Snow, B. & Costa, M. M., 09.2023, In: Ambio. 52, 9, p. 1418-1430 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Stratigraphie und Befunde

    Neugebauer-Maresch, C., Peticzka, R., Frank, C. & Urban, B., 2008, Krems-Hundssteig - Mammutjägerlager der Eiszeit: ein Nutzungsareal paläolithischer Jäger- und Sammler(innen) vor 41000 - 27000 Jahren. Neugebauer-Maresch, C. (ed.). Wien: Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, p. 68-147 80 p.

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

  5. Published

    Stratigraphische Begriffe für das Quartär des Periglazialraums in Deutschland

    Urban, B., 01.03.2007, In: E&G Quaternary Science Journal. 56, 1/2, p. 84-95 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Straw amendment and nitrification inhibitor controlling N losses and immobilization in a soil cooling-warming experiment

    Chen, H., Rosinger, C., Blagodatsky, S., Reichel, R., Li, B., Kumar, A., Rothardt, S., Luo, J., Brüggemann, N., Kage, H. & Bonkowski, M., 20.04.2023, In: Science of the Total Environment. 870, 11 p., 162007.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  7. Published

    Streit unter Freunden: Was tun Schulkinder, wenn sie sich über andere ärgern?

    Salisch, M., 2005, Aufwachsen zwischen Freunden und Institutionen. Alt, C. (ed.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 63-82 20 p. (Kinderleben - Aufwachsen zwischen Familie, Freunden und Institutionen; vol. 2)(Schriften des Deutschen Jugendinstituts; vol. 2).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  8. Published

    Strengthening gender justice in a just transition: A research agenda based on a systematic map of gender in coal transitions

    Walk, P., Braunger, I., Semb, J., Brodtmann, C., Oei, P. Y. & Kemfert, C., 21.09.2021, In: Energies. 14, 18, 27 p., 5985.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Strengthening Sensory Sustainability Science - Theoretical and Methodological Considerations

    Heinrichs, H., 01.02.2019, In: Sustainability. 11, 3, 16 p., 769.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Strengthening the transformative impulse while mainstreaming real-world labs: Lessons learned from three years of BaWü-Labs: Lessons learned from three years of BaWü-Labs

    Schäpke, N., Wagner, F., Parodi, O. & Meier-Soylu, S., 01.01.2018, In: GAIA. 27, 2, p. 262-264 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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