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. 1999
  2. Published

    Über die Produktivität des Reproduktiven: Der Beitrag des Konzeptes Vorsorgendes Wirtschaften zum Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurs

    Hofmeister, S., 1999, Nachhaltigkeit und Feminismus - Neue Perspektiven, alte Blockaden. Weller, I., Hoffmann, E. & Hofmeister, S. (eds.). Bielefeld: Kleine Verlag, p. 73-95 22 p.

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

  3. Published

    Über Effizienz und Suffizienz hinaus: Zur methodischen Weiterentwicklung des Stoffstrommanagements mit Blick auf Nachhaltigkeit

    Hofmeister, S., 1999, In: Politische Ökologie. 62, p. 34-38 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Umweltbildung - den Möglichkeitssinn wecken: Beiträge aus der Ringvorlesung an der Universität Lüneburg

    Stoltenberg, U. (Editor) & Strohschneider, R. (Editor), 1999, Schneverdingen: Alfred Toepfer Akademie für Naturschutz. 58 p. (NNA-Berichte; vol. 12, no. 1)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

  5. Published

    Umweltmanagement und Shareholder Value in den Kriterien des Unternehmenserfolgs

    Schaltegger, S. & Figge, F., 1999, Shareholder Value und die Kriterien des Unternehmenserfolgs. Koslowski, P. (ed.). Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag, p. 201-227 (Ethische Ökonomie; no. 4).

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

  6. Published

    Was ist Stakeholder Value? Vom Schlagwort zur Messung

    Figge, F. & Schaltegger, S., 1999, Lüneburg: Universität Lüneburg, 51 p. (Arbeitsbericht Universität Lüneburg Fachbereich Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften; no. 219).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  7. Published

    Was lange währt...

    Hofmeister, S., 1999, In: Politische Ökologie. 17, 57/58, p. 94-95 1 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Wie aktuell sind Umwelterklärungen und -berichte bezüglich der umweltpolitischen Diskussion? Untersucht am Beispiel von Angaben über CO2-Emissionen und Energieverbrauch

    Hroch, N. & Schaltegger, S., 1999, Lüneburg: Institut für Umweltkommunikation der Universität Lüneburg, 32 p. (INFU-Diskussionsbeiträge; vol. 9/99).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  9. Published

    Zeitlandschaften: Perspektiven öko-sozialer Zeitpolitik

    Hofmeister, S. (Editor) & Spitzner, M. (Editor), 1999, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel Verlag. 328 p. (Edition Universitas)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  10. 1998
  11. Published

    Einfluss der Feldberegnung auf den Grundwasserhaushalt im Uelzener Becken-Ermittlung aus dem Basisabfluss

    Wittenberg, H., 08.1998, In: Wasser und Boden. 50, 8, p. 41-44 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Promoting sustainable urban environments by continuing education for local authorities

    Adomßent, M., 01.01.1998, Urban Ecology. Breuste, J., Feldmann, H. & Uhlmann, O. (eds.). Berlin [u.a.]: Springer, p. 297-301 5 p.

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