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

    Emotions and social development in childhood

    Salisch, M., Voltmer, K., Miller-Slough , R., Chin, J.-C. & Denham, S. A., 05.04.2022, The Wiley‐Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development. Smith, P. & Hart, C. (eds.). 3. ed. Cambridge: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., p. 631-650 20 p. (The Wiley‐Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  2. Published

    Emotion Knowledge and Attention Problems in Young Children: a Cross-Lagged Panel Study on the Direction of Effects

    Salisch, M., Denham, S. A. & Koch, T., 01.01.2017, In: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 45, 1, p. 45-56 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Emotional Human-Machine Interaction: Cues from Facial Expressions

    Tews, T.-K., Oehl, M., Siebert, F. W., Höger, R. & Faasch, H., 2011, Human interface and the managment of information: Interacting with Information - Symposium on Human Interface 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Proceedings. Smith, M. J. & Salvendy, G. (eds.). Springer, Vol. 1. p. 641-650 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6771 LNCS, no. PART 1).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Emotional Human-Machine Interaction: Cues from Facial Expressions

    Tews, T.-K., Oehl, M., Siebert, F., Höger, R. & Faasch, H., 2011, Human Interface and the Management of Information: Interacting with Information: Symposium on Human Interface 2011, Held as a Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Smith, M. J. & Salvendy, G. (eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, p. 641-650 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6771 LNCS, no. PART 1).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Emotionale Kompetenz entwickeln: Hintergründe, Vergleich verschiedener Modelle und Bedeutung für Entwicklung und Erziehung

    Salisch, M., 2002, Emotionale Kompetenz entwickeln: Grundlagen in Kindheit und Jugend. Salisch, M. (ed.). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag GmbH, p. 31-50 20 p.

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

  6. Published

    Emotionale Kompetenz entwickeln: Grundlagen in Kindheit und Jugend

    Salisch, M. (Editor), 2002, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag GmbH. 266 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  7. Published

    Emotionale Kompetenz bei Kindern und Jugendlichen: Entwicklung und Folgen

    Klinkhammer, J. & von Salisch, M., 01.10.2015, 1 ed. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag GmbH. 188 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Emotionale Kompetenz bei Kindern und Jugendlichen: Entwicklung und Folgen

    Klinkhammer, J., Voltmer, K. & von Salisch, M., 24.05.2022, 2., erweiterte und überarbeitete Auflage ed. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag GmbH. 196 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Emotionale Entwicklung über die Lebensspanne

    Salisch, M. & Kunzmann, U., 2005, Soziale, emotionale und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung: Entwicklungspsychologie. Asendorpf, J. B. & Birbaumer, N. (eds.). Göttingen [u.a.]: Hogrefe Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, p. 1-74 74 p. (Enzyklopädie der Psychologie; Themenbereich C, Ser. 5; vol. 3).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

  10. Published

    Emotionale Entwicklung

    Salisch, M., 2008, Entwicklungspsychiatrie: biopsychologische Grundlagen und die Entwicklung psychischer Störungen. Herpertz-Dahlmann, B., Resch, F., Schulte-Markwort, M. J. & Warnke, A. (eds.). Stuttgart [u.a.]: Schattauer Verlag

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