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

    The Project Schöningen from an ecological and cultural perspective

    Serangeli, J., Rodríguez-Álvarez, B., Tucci, M., Verheijen, I., Bigga, G., Böhner, U., Urban, B., van Kolfschoten, T. & Conard, N. J., 15.10.2018, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 198, p. 140-155 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    The prospects of product carbon footprints in ERP systems

    Funk, B., Möller, A. & Niemeyer, P., 2008, Environmental informatics and industrial ecology. Möller, A., Page, B. & Schreiber, M. (eds.). Aachen: Shaker Verlag, p. 534-540 7 p.

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

  3. Published

    The Protection of Foreign Investments in Disputed Maritime Areas

    Benatar, M. & Schatz, V. J., 08.12.2020, Investments in Conflict Zones : The Role of International Investment Law in Armed Conflicts, Disputed Territories, and ‘Frozen’ Conflicts . Ackermann, T. & Wuschka, S. (eds.). Leiden, Niederlande: Brill | Nijhoff, p. 176 - 208 33 p. (Nijhoff International Investment Law Series; vol. 15).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  4. Published

    The reciprocal iso-inhibition volume concept: A procedure for the evaluation in effect-directed analysis with thin-layer chromatography - using the thin-layer chromatography-luminescent bacteria assay as an example

    Schulz, W., Weiss, S. C., Weber, W. H. & Winzenbacher, R., 13.10.2017, In: Journal of Chromatography A. 1519, p. 121-130 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    The recombinant bifunctional protein αCD133–GPVI promotes repair of the infarcted myocardium in mice

    Baumer, Y., Leder, C., Ziegler , M., Schönberger, T., Ochmann, C., Perk, A., Degen, H., Schmid-Horch, B., Elvers, M., Münch, G., Ungerer, M., Schlosshauer, B. & Gawaz, M., 06.2012, In: Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis . 10, 6, p. 1152-1164 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    The relation of flow-experience and physiological arousal under stress - can u shape it?

    Peifer, C., Schulz, A., Schächinger, H., Baumann, N. & Antoni, C. H., 07.2014, In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 53, p. 62-69 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    The Relationship between Family Law and Female Entrepreneurship in Germany

    Guerra González, J., 01.2013, Lüneburg: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 38 p. (Leuphana Schriftenreihe Nachhaltigkeit & Recht; no. 4).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  9. Published

    The relationship between intra- and intergenerational ecological justice: determinants of goal conflicts and synergies in sustainability policy

    Glotzbach, S. & Baumgärtner, S., 2009, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 33 p. (Working paper series in economics; no. 141).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  10. Published

    The relationship between intragenerational and intergenerational ecological justice

    Baumgärtner, S. & Glotzbach, S., 08.2012, In: Environmental Values. 21, 3, p. 331-355 25 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review