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

    Sustainable Value Added: Measuring Corporate Contributions to Sustainability Beyond Eco-Efficiency

    Figge, F. & Hahn, T., 20.02.2004, In: Ecological Economics. 48, 2, p. 173-187 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Sustainable Value Added: Measuring Corporate Sustainable Performance beyond Eco-Efficiency

    Figge, F. & Hahn, T., 2001, Lüneburg: Centre for Sustainability Management, 14 p.

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  3. Published

    Sustainable Value Added: Measuring Corporate Sustainable Performance Beyond Eco-Efficiency

    Figge, F. & Hahn, T., 04.2002, 2., rev. ed ed., Lüneburg: Centre for Sustainability Management, 34 p.

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  4. Published

    Sustainable Use of Water in the Food and Beverage Sector through Product Water Footprint Labeling: With Empirical Evidence from Thailand

    Supesuntorn, K., 2012, Lüneburg: Centre for Sustainability Management, 259 p.

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  5. Published

    Sustainable use of ecosystem services under multiple risks: a survey of commercial cattle farmers in semi-arid rangelands in Namibia

    Olbrich, R., Quaas, M. F. & Baumgärtner, S., 2009, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 52 p. (Working paper series in economics; no. 137).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  6. Published

    Sustainable university research and development: inspecting sustainability in higher education research

    Beringer, A. & Adomssent, M., 01.12.2008, In: Environmental Education Research. 14, 6, p. 607-623 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Sustainable university – auf dem Weg zu einem universitären Agendaprozess

    Michelsen, G. (Editor), 2000, Frankfurt am Main: VAS Verlag für Akademische Schriften. 252 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

  8. Published

    "Sustainable University": nachhaltige Entwicklung als Strategie und Ziel von Hochschulentwicklung

    Michelsen, G. (Editor), Adomßent, M. (Editor) & Godemann, J. (Editor), 2008, Frankfurt am Main: VAS Verlag für Akademische Schriften. 186 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  9. Published

    Sustainable university: eine Bestandsaufnahme

    Adomßent, M., Albrecht, P., Barth, M., Burandt, S., Franz-Balsen, A., Godemann, J. & Rieckmann, M., 2007, Lüneburg: Institut für Umweltkommunikation der Universität Lüneburg, 41 p. (INFU-Diskussionsbeiträge; no. 34/07).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  10. Published

    Sustainable Tourism: A Multi-Stakeholder Involvement in Coral Reefs Conservation in Malaysia

    Mohamad Saleh, M. S. & Nik Hasan, N. N., 2014, In: International Journal of Physical and Social Sciences. 4, 3, p. 158-174 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review