School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Research School
- 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.
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.
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Labelling Sustainable Software Products and Websites: Ideas , Approaches , and Challenges
Kern, E., Dick, M., Naumann, S. & Filler, A., 01.01.2015, 29th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection. Atlantis Press, p. 82-91 10 p. (Advances in Computer Science Research).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Impacts of software and its engineering on the carbon footprint of ICT
Kern, E., Dick, M., Naumann, S. & Hiller, T., 01.04.2015, In: Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 52, p. 53-61 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Arthropod but not bird predation in Ethiopian homegardens is higher in tree-poor than in tree-rich landscapes
Lemessa, D., Hambäck, P. A. & Hylander, K., 11.05.2015, In: PLoS ONE. 10, 5, 12 p., e0126639.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Elementary school children contribute to environmental research as citizen scientists
Miczajka, V. L., Klein, A. M. & Pufal, G., 18.11.2015, In: PLoS ONE. 10, 11, 10 p., e0143229.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Early subtropical forest growth is driven by community mean trait values and functional diversity rather than the abiotic environment
Kröber, W., Li, Y., Härdtle, W., Ma, K., Schmid, B., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T., Seidler, G., von Oheimb, G., Welk, E., Wirth, C. & Bruehlheide, H., 01.09.2015, In: Ecology and Evolution. 5, 17, p. 3541-3556 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Bad Practices in deutschen Unternehmen: Mechanismen im Umgang mit fragwürdiger Moral
Martin, A., Hollborn, M., Jochims, T., Rogée, A., Saggau, C. & Wüst, S., 2015, Lüneburg: Institut für Mittelstandsforschung der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 101 p. (Schriften aus dem Institut für Mittelstandsforschung; vol. 45).Research output: Working paper › Working papers
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Fazit zum Politikfeld Agro-Gentechnik: Umkämpfte Naturgestaltung, umkämpfte Politikgestaltung
Gottschlich, D., Sulmowski, J. A. & Friedrich, B., 02.2017, Politiken der Naturgestaltung : Ländliche Entwicklung und Agro-Gentechnik zwischen Kritik und Vision. Gottschlich, D. & Mölders, T. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 217-224 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Wirksamkeit eines internet- und smartphone-basierten Dankbarkeitstrainings zur Förderung der gedanklichen Distanzierung von arbeitsbezogenen Problemen –Sekundäranalyse einer randomisiert - kontrollierten Studie
Heckendorf, H., Lehr, D., Freund, H., Ebert, D. D. & Sieland, B., 2016, State of the Art : Zum Stand der positiv - psycho - logischen Forschung im deutschsprachigen Raum. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Positiv-Psychologische Forschung, p. 23-24 2 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Published abstract in conference proceedings › Research
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Forgetting fire: Traditional fire knowledge in two chestnut forest ecosystems of the Iberian Peninsula and its implications for European fire management policy
Seijo, F., Millington, J. D. A., Gray, R., Sanz, V., Lozano Mendoza, J., García-Serrano, F., Sangüesa-Barreda, G. & Julio Camarero, J., 01.09.2015, In: Land Use Policy. 47, p. 130-144 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Effectiveness of a Web-Based Cognitive Behavioural Intervention for Subthreshold Depression: Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial
Buntrock, C., Ebert, D. D., Lehr, D., Riper, H., Smit, F., Cuijpers, P. & Berking, M., 14.10.2015, In: Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 84, 6, p. 348-358 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review