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. Collected editions and anthologies › Research
  2. Published

    Die Deutsche Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie: Wegweiser für eine Politik der Nachhaltigkeit

    Michelsen, G. (Editor), 14.09.2017, 2 ed. Wiesbaden: Hessische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung. 176 p. (forum hlz)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  3. Published

    Die Elbtalaue: Geschichte, Schutz und Entwicklung einer Flußlandschaft.

    Härdtle, W. (Editor), 1999, Halle: Ampyx Verlag. 144 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  4. Published

    Die Klima-Manipulateure: Rettet uns Politik oder Geo-Engineering?

    Altner, G. (Editor), Leitschuh, H. (Editor), Michelsen, G. (Editor), Simonis, U. E. (Editor) & Weizsäcker, E. U. V. (Editor), 2010, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel Verlag. 248 p. (Jahrbuch Ökologie)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  5. Published

    Digitalization, new media, and education for sustainable development

    Keller, L. (Editor), Michelsen, G. (Editor), Dür, M. (Editor), Bachri, S. (Editor) & Zint, M. (Editor), 17.04.2023, IGI Global Publishing. 328 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  6. Published

    Economics Today: Konsens und Kontroverse in der modernen Ökonomie

    Brunetti, A. (Editor), Kugler, P. (Editor), Schaltegger, S. (Editor) & Weder, B. (Editor), 1998, Zürich: Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 256 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  7. Published

    Education for Sustainable Development – European Approaches

    Stoltenberg, U. (Editor) & Holz, V. (Editor), 2012, 1 ed. Bad Homburg: VAS Verlag für Akademische Schriften. 203 p. (Higher education for sustainability; vol. 7)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  8. Published

    EEG 2014 - Konsequenzen für die Finanzwirtschaft

    Degenhart, H. (Editor) & Schomerus, C.-T. (Editor), 2016, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. 144 p. (Lüneburger Schriften zum Wirtschaftsrecht; vol. 30)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  9. Published

    Emotionale Kompetenz entwickeln: Grundlagen in Kindheit und Jugend

    Salisch, M. (Editor), 2002, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag. 266 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  10. Published

    Empirische Forschung zur Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung - Themen, Methoden und Trends: Summer School "Empirische Forschung zur Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung - Themen, Methoden und Trends" vom 21.-29. Juli 2014 an der Universität Vechta

    Barth, M. (Editor) & Rieckmann, M. (Editor), 2016, Opladen: Verlag Babara Budrich. 238 p. (Ökologie und Erziehungswissenschaft)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  11. Published

    Environmental Management Accounting and Supply Chain Management

    Burritt, R. (Editor), Schaltegger, S. (Editor), Bennett, M. (Editor), Pohjola, T. (Editor) & Csutora, M. (Editor), 2011, 1 ed. Dordrecht: Springer Verlag. 376 p. (Eco-efficiency in industry and science; no. 27)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  12. Published

    Environmental Management Accounting for Cleaner Production

    Schaltegger, S. (Editor), Bennett, M. (Editor), Burritt, R. L. (Editor) & Jasch, C. (Editor), 01.01.2008, Dordrecht: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland. 500 p. (Eco-efficiency in industry and science; vol. 24)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  13. Published

    Environmental Noise: Main Focus: Aircraft Noise

    Guerra González, J. (Editor), 03.2004, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler: Europäische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen Wissenschaftlich-Technischer Entwicklungen. 122 p. (Graue Reihe; no. 36)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  14. Published

    Ethics Education: Unternehmens- und Wirtschaftsethik in der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Ausbildung

    Haase, M. (Editor), Mirkovic, S. (Editor) & Schuhmann, O. J. (Editor), 2011, München & Mering: Rainer Hampp Verlag. 184 p. (sfwu-Schriftenreihe für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik; vol. 22)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  15. Published

    Ethik und Nachhaltigkeit. Grundsatzfragen und Handlungsperspektiven im universitären Agendaprozess. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung

    Altner, G. (Editor) & Michelsen, G. (Editor), 2001, Frankfurt am Main: Verlag für Akademische Schriften. 386 p. (Innovation in den Hochschulen: Nachhaltige Entwickliung; vol. 5)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  16. Published

    European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2021

    Bäumler, J. (Editor), Binder, C. (Editor), Bungenberg, M. (Editor), Krajewski, M. (Editor), Rühl, G. (Editor), Tams, C. J. (Editor), Terhechte, J. (Editor) & Ziegler, A. R. (Editor), 06.07.2022, Cham: Springer International Publishing. 369 p. (European Yearbook of International Economic Law; vol. 12)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  17. Published

    European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2022

    Bäumler, J. (Editor), Binder, C. (Editor), Bungenberg, M. (Editor), Krajewski, M. (Editor), Rühl, G. (Editor), Tams, C. J. (Editor), Terhechte, J. (Editor) & Ziegler, A. R. (Editor), 24.05.2023, Cham: Springer International Publishing. 581 p. (European Yearbook of International Economic Law; vol. 13)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  18. Published

    European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2023

    Bäumler, J. (Editor), Binder, C. (Editor), Bungenberg, M. (Editor), Krajewski, M. (Editor), Rühl, G. (Editor), Tams, C. J. (Editor), Terhechte, J. (Editor) & Ziegler, A. R. (Editor), 17.10.2024, Cham: Springer International Publishing. 489 p. (European Yearbook of International Economic Law; vol. 14)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  19. Published

    European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2024

    Bäumler, J. (Editor), Binder, C. (Editor), Bungenberg, M. (Editor), Krajewski, M. (Editor), Rühl, G. (Editor), Tams, C. J. (Editor), Terhechte, J. (Editor) & Ziegler, A. R. (Editor), 10.06.2025, Cham: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland. 448 p. (European Yearbook of International Economic Law; vol. 11)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  20. Published

    Festschrift zum 150-jährigen Vereinsjubiläum

    Horst, K. (Editor), Härdtle, W. (Editor) & Prüter, J. (Editor), 2001, Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein für das Fürstentum Lüneburg von 1851 e.V. 289 p. (Jahrbuch des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für das Fürstentum Lüneburg von 1851; no. 42)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  21. Published

    Fokus Mittelstand: Einzelaspekte der Mittelstandsforschung

    Fischer, C. (Editor), Nissen, D. (Editor), Ott, I. (Editor) & Schöning, S. (Editor), 2003, 1. ed. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag. 285 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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