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. 2007
  2. Published

    Vergessene Landwirtschaft: Agrarstrukturen zwischen Tradition und Multifunktionalität

    Mölders, T. & Müller, F., 2007, In: Politische Ökologie. 106-107, Klimawandel, p. 100-101 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Verständigung als Basis inter- und transdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit

    Godemann, J., 2007, Handbuch Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation: Grundlagen und Praxis. Michelsen, G. & Godemann, J. (eds.). 2. ed. München: oekom verlag GmbH, p. 86-96 11 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  4. Published

    Verwaltungsrecht: [Prüfungswissen, Multiple-Choice-Tests, Gesetze, Urteile ; neu: zusätzliche Übungsaufgaben zu jedem Kapitel]

    Schomerus, T. & Hobro, Y., 2007, 2. ed. Freiburg: Haufe Mediengruppe. 148 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCompendium/lecture notesEducation

  5. Published

    Von der Nische zum Erfolgsmodell: der Studiengang Wirtschaftsrecht als Modell für eine neue Juristenausbildung?

    Schomerus, T., 2007, Reform als Chance: Das Staatsexamen im Umbruch . Zervakis, P. A. & Neuhaus, P. A. (eds.). 1. ed. Bonn: Hochschulrektorenkonferenz , p. 36 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  6. Published

    Von Lebensträumen und prekären Verhältnissen... Politische Jugendbildung für junge Männer zu Berufsorientierung und Lebensplanung

    Offen, S. & Schmidt, J., 2007, In: Praxis politische Bildung. 11, 4, p. 262-268 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransfer

  7. Published

    Waldflächenentwicklung im östlichen Schleswig-Holstein in den letzten 250 Jahren und ihre Bedeutung für seltene Gefäßpflanzen

    Oheimb, G., Schmidt, M. & Kriebitzsch, W.-U., 2007, In: Tuexenia. 27, p. 363-380 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  8. Published
  9. Published

    Weltreise einer Jeans: auf den Spuren unserer Kleidung

    Rolle, , M., Schumacher, M. & Corleis, F., 2007, Lüneburg: Verlag edition erlebnispädagogik. 187 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  10. Published

    "Werkzeuge" des Nachhaltigkeitsmanagements

    Schaltegger, S., Herzig, C. & Klinke, T., 2007, Berufsbild CSR-Manager. Lenzen, E. & Fengler, J. (eds.). Münster, Westf: Macondo Verlag, p. 23-29 7 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  11. Published

    Wie klingt das Bild? Bilder zum Klingen bringen

    Hallmann, K., 2007, In: Grundschule Musik. 43, p. 28-32 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransfer

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Activities

  1. Fulbright International Interdisciplinary Conference "Olympism and the Fulbright Spirit: Humanism in Action" 2004
  2. Transdisciplinary Cooperation In Teacher Education: A Chance For The Implementation Of ESD Into School Practice?
  3. Uncertain futures. The (Un-)Making of Certainty in German Schools in the Context of Refugee Migration from Ukraine
  4. Theorie Praxis Transfer im Rahmen von Ausbildung und Studium mit Blick auf die berufliche Lernortkooperationen
  5. Die Multikriterielle Evaluationsstudie – Ein transdisziplinäres Instrument zur integrativen Entscheidungsfindung
  6. NumaRete would count no more! Von Wahrnehmungsmaschinen, biologischen Systemen und dem Vorführeffekt. (Hyperkult 16)
  7. "Ästhetische Spannung als Zukunftsungewissheit? Zur Aktualität von Clemens Lugowskis historischer Literaturtheorie"
  8. Kinetics of biotic iron oxidation by Gallionella ferruginea spp. and catalytic activity of biogenic iron deposits
  9. (Hoch)Schulen als nachhaltige Konsumkulturen: Transdisziplinäre Innovationsforschung am Beispiel des Projektes BINK
  10. Intensivworkshop "Empirisches Arbeiten in der Deutschdidaktik" des Nachwuchsnetzwerks Deutschdidaktik im SDD - 2013
  11. Aktuelle Entwicklungen im Feld der Ausbildungen für pädagogische Fach- und Lehrkräfte in der Kindertagesbetreuung
  12. Multi-Level Parties and Local Interest Representation: First Approaches Towards a More Encompassing Research Design
  13. Eigenzeiten of Creativity – Temporal Work as a Coordination Challenge in Artistic and Scientific Project Ecologies

Publications

  1. Functional diversity and trait composition of butterfly and bird communities in Farmlands of Central Romania
  2. The role of co-evolutionary development and value change debt in navigating transitioning cultural landscapes
  3. Cumulating evidence in environmental governance, policy and planning research: towards a research reform agenda
  4. Who perceives women's rights as threatening to men and boys? Explaining modern sexism among young men in Europe
  5. Physikalische modellierung und simulation des material- und strukturverhaltens thermisch gespritzter schichten
  6. Diagnostik in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Domäne aus Perspektive der fachdidaktischen Lehr- und Lernforschung
  7. Die Anverwandlung der Bibel in Kants Schrift »Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft« von 1793
  8. The revolution is conditional? The conditionality of hydrogen fuel cell expectations in five European countries
  9. Studying the fate of the drug Chlorprothixene and its photo transformation products in the aquatic environment
  10. UN Global Action Programme and Education for Sustainable Development: A Critical Appraisal of the Evidence Base
  11. Dolderer, Maya, u.a. (Hg.), O Mother, Where Art Thou? (Queer-)Feministische Perspektiven auf Mutterschaft und Mütterlichkeit
  12. Farmers’ perceptions and knowledge of natural enemies as providers of biological control in cider apple orchards
  13. Elemente und Wandlungen der Mitgliedschaftsverfassung der EU – Beitritt, flexible Integration, Austritt, Ausschluss
  14. Zur Finanz-, Branchen- und Nachhaltigkeitsexpertise im Prüfungsausschuss bei börsennotierten Aktiengesellschaften