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

    Long-term population dynamics of Dactylorhiza incarnata (L.) Soo after abandonment and re-introduction of mowing

    Schrautzer, J., Fichtner, A., Huckauf, A., Rasran, L. & Jensen, K., 07.2011, In: Flora. 206, 7, p. 622-630 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Long-term perspectives in the electricity and heat sector coupling

    Gerhardt, N., Sandau, F., Schumacher, P., Antoni, O. & Merkel, K., 2015, In: BWK- Energie-Fachmagazin. 67, 11, p. 12 – 16 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  3. Published

    Long-term effects of historical heathland farming on soil properties of forest ecosystems

    von Oheimb, G., Haerdtle, W., Naumann, P. S., Westphal, C., Meyer, H. & Aßmann, T., 05.04.2008, In: Forest Ecology and Management. 255, 5-6, p. 1984-1993 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Long-term drought triggers severe declines in carabid beetles in a temperate forest

    Weiss, F., von Wehrden, H. & Linde, A., 04.2024, In: Ecography. 2024, 4, 17 p., e07020.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Long-Term Abandonment of Forest Management Has a Strong Impact on Tree Morphology and Wood Volume Allocation Pattern of European Beech (Fagus Sylvatica L.)

    Georgi, L., Kunz, M., Fichtner, A., Härdtle, W., Reich, K. F., Sturm, K., Welle, T. & von Oheimb, G., 13.11.2018, In: Forests. 9, 11, 16 p., 704.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Long-Range and Regional Atmospheric Transport of POPs and Implications for Global Cycling

    Hageman, K., Bogdal, C. & Scheringer, M., 01.03.2015, Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs): Analytical Techniques, Environmental Fate and Biological Effects. Zeng, E. (ed.). 1 ed. Elsevier B.V., Vol. 67. p. 363-387 25 p. (Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry; vol. 67).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  7. Published

    Longitudinal prediction of primary school children's COVID-related future anxiety in the second year of the pandemic in Germany

    Voltmer, K. & von Salisch, M., 08.05.2024, In: PLoS ONE. 19, 5, 16 p., e0302065.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Longitudinal and Latitudinal Distribution of Perfluoroalkyl Compounds in the Surface Water of the Atlantic Ocean

    Ahrens, L., Barber, J. L., Xie, Z. & Ebinghaus, R., 01.05.2009, In: Environmental Science & Technology. 43, 9, p. 3122-3127 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Lokalisierung von Schadstoffeinleitern vom Kanalnetz aus.

    Flemming, H. C. & Ruck, W., 1989, In: Wasserkalender. 1990, p. 115-133 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Lokale und regionale Konflikte um Agro-Gentechnik

    Friedrich, B., 02.2017, Politiken der Naturgestaltung : Ländliche Entwicklung und Agro-Gentechnik zwischen Kritik und Vision. Gottschlich, D. & Mölders, T. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 153-170 18 p.

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

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Researchers

  1. Christof Radewagen

Publications

  1. Einblicke in die Zukunft der Familie
  2. Der BMBF-Forschungsschwerpunkt zu "Jedem Kind ein Instrument" in Nordrhein-Westfalen und Hamburg
  3. Wie geht es den Kindern in Zeiten von Corona?
  4. Zur ambulanten Versorgung psychischer Störungen in einer ländlichen Region
  5. Eger, Thomas ( 1995). Eine Ökonomische Analyse von Langzeitverträgen, Marburg: Metropolis. 263 s. DM 49.80. ISBN 3-89518-045-9.
  6. Das Dorf als Konfliktfeld im Streit um Agro-Gentechnik
  7. Geschichte der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie in Deutschland in den Jahren 1937 bis 1961
  8. The impact of systemic innovations for transforming transplant systems. Lessons learned from the German lung transplantation system
  9. Der Ton macht die Musik!
  10. Entwicklung und Validierung eines Fragebogens zur emotionsspezifischen Selbsteinschätzung emotionaler Kompetenzen (SEK-ES).
  11. Regeneration als Ressource
  12. Die heiligen drei Narren
  13. Zur biographischen Genese subjektiver Geschlechts- und Medienidentitäten in (familien-)systemischer Perspektive
  14. Germany – Europe –World 2042:
  15. Von der Bundes-Rahmenordnung zu einer Modulkonzeption für die Soziale Arbeit
  16. Welches Verständnis von Person leitet die Ethik?
  17. Job maintenance by supported employment
  18. »Was wäre, wenn?« Zum Nutzen kontrafaktischer Analyse in der (historischen) Soziologie am Beispiel 1989
  19. Inklusion von Menschen mit Behinderung auf dem allgemeinen Arbeitsmarkt
  20. The Archival Research on Les Immatériaux
  21. Asymilacja i Dzikosc
  22. Friend and Foe: The image of Germany and the Germans in British children's fiction from 1870 to the present
  23. Integrierte Versorgung für schizophren erkrankte Patienten
  24. § 111 VwGO (Zwischenurteil über den Grund)
  25. Der Wandel der Anerkennung von Fehl- und Totgeburt als Geburt eines Kindes
  26. Traditionelle Sportarten im Verein
  27. Einkommens- und Verteilungsanalysen mit dem Taxpayer-Panel
  28. Betriebliche Konflikthandhabung in der DDR und der Bundesrepublik : qualitative Analyse und rechtspolitische Perspektiven