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

    Prioritize grassland restoration to bend the curve of biodiversity loss

    Staude, I. R., Segar, J., Temperton, V. M., Andrade, B. O., de Sá Dechoum, M., Weidlich, E. W. A. & Overbeck, G. E., 07.2023, In: Restoration Ecology. 31, 5, 7 p., e13931.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    ‘The human shield effect’: Human-wildlife co-occurrence patterns in the coffee forests of southwestern Ethiopia

    Rodrigues, P., Dorresteijn, I. & Gimenez, O., 01.09.2023, In: Food Webs. 36, 8 p., e00288.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  3. Published

    Special issue: Frameworks for Sustainability Management

    Hörisch, J. (Editor), Schaltegger, S. (Editor), Weissbrod, I. (Editor) & Schreck, P. (Editor), 05.2023, Berlin: Springer. (Journal of Business Economics; vol. 93, no. 4)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  4. Published

    Alignment of the life cycle initiative’s “principles for the application of life cycle sustainability assessment” with the LCSA practice: A case study review

    Leroy-Parmentier, N., Valdivia, S., Loubet, P. & Sonnemann, G., 01.06.2023, In: International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 28, 6, p. 704-740 37 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Was Naturwissenschaftsdidaktiken und Religionspädagogik voneinander über Inklusion lernen können

    Abels, S. & Witten, U., 01.05.2023, In: Zeitschrift für Inklusion. 2, 716.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  6. Published

    Fossil footprints at the late lower Paleolithic site of Schöningen (Germany): A new line of research to reconstruct animal and hominin paleoecology

    Altamura, F., Lehmann, J., Rodríguez-Álvarez, B., Urban, B., van Kolfschoten, T., Verheijen, I., Conard, N. J. & Serangeli, J., 15.06.2023, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 310, 108094.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  7. Published

    A Matter of Framing: Analyzing Value Communication in Sustainable Business Models

    Norris, S., 12.2023, In: Organization & Environment. 36, 4, p. 503–528 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Rebound effects: Management and Prevention. Guideline for Companies

    Wolff, F., Gensch, C.-O., Kampffmeyer, N., Schöpflin, P., Lautermann, C., Gebauer, J., Schaltegger, S., Norris, S., Wüst, S., Thiel, D. & Buda, F., 2023, Öko-Institut.

    Research output: Working paperProject reportsResearch

  9. Published

    What enables metals ‘being’ ‘responsible’? An exploratory study on the enabling of organizational identity claims through a new sustainability standard

    Imbrogiano, J.-P., Steiner, B., Junior, R. M. & Sturman, K., 01.06.2023, In: Resources Policy. 83, p. 1-10 10 p., 103619.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Rethinking Economic Practices and Values As Assemblages of More-Than-Human Relations

    Ortiz-Przychodzka, S., Benavides-Frías, C., Raymond, C. M., Díaz-Reviriego, I. & Hanspach, J., 01.09.2023, In: Ecological Economics. 211, 9 p., 107866.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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Activities

  1. Künstliche Intelligenz trifft Fremdsprachenlernen und -lehren - Disruptive Technologien als Chance und Herausforderung
  2. Ammonia volatilization in an alkaline upland soil in Norhthern China: – comparative measurements and modelling results
  3. More is best. Triangulation of non-native data (30. Jahrestagung, Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL), Frankfurt a.M.)
  4. Transformative Wissenschaft – autonom, nützlich oder transversal? Ein feldtheoretischer Öffnungsversuch der Gaia-Debatte
  5. Rural Gender Relations and Sustainable Development – Theoretical Remarks and Empirical Findings on Feminization Trends
  6. Formative Leistungsbeurteilung. Didaktische Elemente der individuellen Diagnose und lernprozessbegleitenden Förderung
  7. Co-Production of Tools and Strategies to Upscale the Local Model of the Viscri Association by Involving a Policy Expert
  8. Fachtagung "Chormusikkultur und Migrationsgesellschaft - Kinder und Jugendchöre als Orte transkulturellen Lernens?" - 2015
  9. A Simple Likelihood-based Panel Cointegration Test in the Presence of a Linear Time Trend and Cross-sectional Dependence
  10. 28th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association and 67th European Meeting of the Econometric Society - EEA 2013
  11. Relationen der Auflösung sind Relationen der Konstituierung: Überlegungen zur Ontogenese im Anschluss an Gilbert Simondon
  12. Networkers, Grazers, and Explorers: how sustainability-oriented innovation in SMEs unfolds through a regional network setting.
  13. 5. Tagung des EU-Forschungsverbundes CAPRIGHT - Resources, Rights and Capabilities, towards a social foundation for Europe 2010
  14. Comparing responses of carbon dyamics to elevated atmosperic CO2 concentrations in arable crop rotations in Germany and China
  15. Die Deutschdidaktik und die Musikdidaktik. Anmerkungen eines Sprachdidaktikers zum Tagungsthema "Perspektiven der Musikdidaktik"
  16. MEPs on the Web - different from national MPs or just the same? Socialisation and the new digital media in the European Parliament
  17. 13. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises ,,Wahlen und politische Einstellungen'' der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaften - 2010

Publications

  1. Why phubbing is toxic for your relationship: Understanding the role of smartphone jealousy among "Generation Y" users
  2. Die Edition der Lodzer Getto-Chronik und ihre Multimedialisierung im Spiegel medialer Transformationen des Holocaust
  3. A Geometric Approach by Using Switching and Flatness Based Control in Electromechanical Actuators for Linear Motion
  4. Identification of environmentally biodegradable scaffolds for the benign design of quinolones and related substances
  5. Teachers' content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge: The role of structural differences in teacher education
  6. Conference on Contract Practice in the European Space Sector, 26 - 27 November 2009, German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Bremen
  7. Nitrogen deposition and drought events have non-additive effects on plant growth – Evidence from greenhouse experiments
  8. For the good of the people: establishing public value creation as an objective for sustainable entrepreneurship policy
  9. Acute effects of resistance training at different range of motions on plantar flexion mechanical properties and force
  10. Interdependenzen zwischen Unternehmenskultur und städtischer Kultur am Beispiel der mittelalterlichen Saline Lüneburg
  11. Does adhering to the principles of green finance matter for stock valuation? Evidence from testing for (co-)explosiveness
  12. Ein Smartphone-gestütztes internetbasiertes Programm für Patienten mit Diabetes mellitus Typ 2 und komorbider Depression
  13. Demokratisierung gesellschaftlicher Naturverhältnisse im Spannungsfeld von Politisierung und Entpolitisierungsprozessen
  14. Lern- und Leistungsschwierigkeiten im Mathematikunterricht aus der Sicht von Grundschullehrerinnen und Grundschullehrern
  15. Platform for sustainable aviation fuels-combining ecological research and sustainability management with industrial needs
  16. Network access charges, vertical integration, and property rights structure-experiences from the German electricity markets
  17. Training effects of two different unstable shoe constructions on postural control in static and dynamic testing situations
  18. Psychische Störungen und psychiatrische Versorgung von Bewohner/Innen von Alten- und Bewohner/Innen von Alten- und Pflegeheimen
  19. Identification of ozonation by-products of 4- and 5-methyl-1H-benzotriazole during the treatment of surface water to drinking water
  20. Marius Welling, Was kann die Verbandsklage vom KapMuG lernen? - Untersuchung zentraler Regelungen des VDuG im Vergleich zum KapMuG
  21. Second comment on 'The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions'