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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Disentangling ‘ecosystem services’ and ‘nature’s contributions to people’
Kadykalo, A. N., López-Rodriguez, M. D., Ainscough, J., Droste, N., Ryu, H., Ávila-Flores, G., Le Clec’h, S., Muñoz, M. C., Nilsson, L., Rana, S., Sarkar, P., Sevecke, K. J. & Harmáčková, Z. V., 01.01.2019, In: Ecosystems and People. 15, 1, p. 269-287 19 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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Slug activity density increases seed predation independently of an urban–rural gradient
Miczajka, V. L., Klein, A. M. & Pufal, G., 09.2019, In: Basic and Applied Ecology. 39, p. 15-25 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Synthesis, self-assembly, bacterial and fungal toxicity, and preliminary biodegradation studies of a series of L-phenylalanine-derived surface-active ionic liquids
Kapitanov, I. V., Jordan, A., Karpichev, Y., Spulak, M., Perez, L., Kellett, A., Kümmerer, K. & Gathergood, N., 07.04.2019, In: Green Chemistry . 21, 7, p. 1777-1794 18 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Seeing polycentrically: Examining governance situations using a polycentricity lens
Blomquist, W. A. & Schröder, N. J. S., 30.09.2019, Governing Complexity: Analyzing and Applying Polycentricity. Thiel, A., Blomquist, W. A. & Garrick, D. E. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 45-64 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Protected habitats of Natura 2000 do not coincide with important diversity hotspots of arthropods in mountain grasslands
Harry, I., Höfer, H., Schielzeth, H. & Assmann, T., 07.2019, In: Insect Conservation and Diversity. 12, 4, p. 329-338 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Framing sustainability and climate change: Interrogating discourses in vernacular and English-language media in Sundarbans, India
Ghosh, A. & Boykoff, M., 02.2019, In: Geoforum. 99, p. 142-153 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Is implicit Theory of Mind real but hard to detect? Testing adults with different stimulus materials
Kulke, L., Wübker, M. & Rakoczy, H., 10.07.2019, In: Royal Society Open Science. 6, 7, 14 p., 190068.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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A clue on bee glue: New insight into the sources and factors driving resin intake in honeybees (Apis mellifera)
Drescher, N., Klein, A. M., Schmitt, T. & Leonhardt, S. D., 06.02.2019, In: PLoS ONE. 14, 2, 20 p., e0210594.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Where have all the beetles gone? Long-term study reveals carabid species decline in a nature reserve in Northern Germany
Homburg, K., Drees, C., Boutaud, E., Nolte, D., Schuett, W., Zumstein, P., von Ruschkowski, E. & Assmann, T., 07.2019, In: Insect Conservation and Diversity. 12, 4, p. 268-277 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Information Literacy - Pseudowissenschaft und digitale (Des-)Informataion bei den Themen 'Klimawandel', 'Clean Coal' und 'Stickoxidgrenzwerte'
Menthe, J. & Hüfner, S. K., 2019, In: Naturwissenschaft im Unterricht - Chemie. 174, 6, p. 20-25Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer