School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Research School
- Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)
- Institute of Ecology
- Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- Institute of Sustainability Governance
- Institute of Sustainability Material Flows and Circularity
- Institute of Sustainability Psychology
- Institute of Sustainable Chemistry
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)
- Sustainability Education and Transdisciplinary Research Institute
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.
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How do individual farmers’ objectives influence the evaluation of rangeland management strategies under a variable climate?
Jakoby, O., Quaas, M. F., Müller, B., Baumgärtner, S. & Frank, K., 04.2014, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 51, 2, p. 483-493 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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How does the context and design of participatory decision making processes affect their outcomes? Evidence from sustainable land management in global drylands
de Vente, J., Reed, M. S., Stringer, L. C., Valente, S. & Newig, J., 01.01.2016, In: Ecology and Society. 21, 2, 24 p., 24.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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How Does Sustainability Performance Relate to Business Competitiveness?
Wagner, M. & Schaltegger, S., 2003, In: Greener Management International. 44, p. 5-16 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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How does sustainability become professionally relevant? Exploring the role of sustainability conceptions in first year students
Sundermann, A. & Fischer, D., 01.10.2019, In: Sustainability. 11, 19, 22 p., 5155.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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How Does it Pay to Be Green? An Analysis of the Relationship Between Environmental and Economic Performance at the Firm Level and the Influence of Corporate Environmental Strategy Choice
Wagner, M., 2003, Marburg: Tectum Verlag. 244 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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How does collaborative governance evolve? Insights from a medium-n case comparison
Ulibarri, N., Emerson, K., Imperial, M. T., Jager, N. W., Newig, J. & Weber, E., 01.10.2020, In: Policy and Society. 39, 4, p. 617-637 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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How data on transformation products can support the redesign of sulfonamides towards better biodegradability in the environment
Puhlmann, N., Olsson, O. & Kümmerer, K., 15.04.2024, In: Science of the Total Environment. 921, 13 p., 171027.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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How context affects transdisciplinary research: insights from Asia, Africa and Latin America
Schneider, F., Llanque-Zonta, A., Andriamihaja, O. R., Andriatsitohaina, R. N. N., Tun, A. M., Boniface, K., Jacobi, J., Celio, E., Diebold, C. L., Patrick, L., Latthachack, P., Llopis, J. C., Lundsgaard-Hansen, L., Messerli, P., Mukhovi, S., Tun, N., Rabemananjara, Z. H., Ramamonjisoa, B. S., Thongmanivong, S., Vongvisouk, T., Thongphanh, D., Myint, W. & Zaehringer, J. G., 01.11.2022, In: Sustainability Science. 17, 6, p. 2331-2345 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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“How complex and even perverse the real world can be” W.D. Hamilton's early work on social wasps (1964–1968)
Caniglia, G., 01.08.2017, In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 64, p. 41-52 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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How cognitive issue bracketing affects interdependent decision-making in negotiations
Warsitzka, M., Zhang, H., Loschelder, D. D., Majer, J. & Trötschel, R., 01.03.2022, In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 99, 16 p., 104268.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review