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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    Using trait-based filtering as a predictive framework for conservation: A case study of bats on farms in southeastern Australia

    Hanspach, J., Fischer, J., Ikin, K., Stott, J. & Law, B. S., 01.08.2012, In: The Journal of Applied Ecology. 49, 4, p. 842-850 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Using the three horizons approach to explore pathways towards positive futures for agricultural landscapes with rich biodiversity

    Schaal, T., Mitchell, M., Scheele, B. C., Ryan, P. & Hanspach, J., 05.2023, In: Sustainability Science. 18, 3, p. 1271-1289 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Using the Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix to synthesize biofuel and bioenergy impact assessment results: The example of medium scale bioenergy heat options

    Upham, P. & Smith, B., 15.02.2014, In: Journal of Cleaner Production. 65, p. 261-269 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Using social media photos to explore the relation between cultural ecosystem services and landscape features across five European sites

    Oteros-Rozas, E., Martín-López, B., Fagerholm, N., Bieling, C. & Plieninger, T., 11.2018, In: Ecological Indicators. 94, Part 2, p. 74-86 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Using sequential injection analysis for fast determination of phosphate in coastal waters

    Frank, C., Schroeder, F., Ebinghaus, R. & Ruck, W., 15.10.2006, In: Talanta. 70, 3, p. 513-517 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Using ‘mixed methods’ in sustainable consumption research: approaches, challenges and added value

    Jäger-Erben, M., Schäfer, M., Dalichau, D., Dehmel, C., Götz, K., Fischer, D., Homburg, A., Schulz, M. & Zundel, S., 2012, The Nature of Sustainable Consumption and How to Achieve it: Results from the Focal Topic "From Knowledge to Action – New Paths towards Sustainable Consumption". Defila, R., D Giulio, A. & Kaufmann-Hayoz, R. (eds.). München: Oekom Verlag, p. 143–159 17 p. (Results of Social-ecological Research; vol. 14).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

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    Using measures of reading time regularity (RTR) to quantify eye movement dynamics, and how they are shaped by linguistic information

    Tschense, M. & Wallot, S., 01.05.2022, In: Journal of Vision. 22, 6, 21 p., 9.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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Researchers

  1. Ingrid Leonie Severin

Publications

  1. Organized labor, labor market imperfections, and employer wage premia
  2. Strategie und strategische Kommunikation
  3. IGLU 2006
  4. Auf Ungerechtigkeit antworten
  5. Welche wirtschaftsberufliche Bildung wollen wir?
  6. Resonanz und Subpolitik als subjektbezogene Zugänge zur Kritik der Nachhaltigkeit
  7. Mainstreaming of Sustainable Cotton in the German Clothing Industry
  8. Internationale Fahndung nach Personen – von Steckbriefen, Rotecken und Funksprüchen
  9. Didaktische Impulse zum Lehren und Lernen mit und über Künstliche Intelligenz
  10. Internationale Grundschul-Lese-Untersuchung (IGLU)
  11. Die Bedeutung des Wesentlichkeitsprinzips in den Rechnungslegungs- und Prüfungsnormen
  12. Stützpunkte als Kern des Größenverständnisses und Grundlage des Schätzens
  13. Öffentlicher Personenverkehr
  14. Kommentierung der Art. 13, 16, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 EUV sowie Art. 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 358 AEUV
  15. Assessment of pharmaceutical waste management at selected hospitals and homes in Ghana
  16. Verminderte Kohleverstromung könnte zeitnah einen relevanten Beitrag zum deutschen Klimaschutzziel leisten
  17. Strategien und Grundformen der Kinder- und Jugendbeteiligung I
  18. City of Enterprise, City as Prey?
  19. Flucht und lateinamerikanische Konvivenz.
  20. Corporate Sustainability Management
  21. Verstehensprozesse bei der Bearbeitung realitätsbezogener Mathematikaufgaben: Klassische Textaufgaben vs. Zeitungstexte
  22. Aufgaben(orientierung) im kompetenzorientierten Englischunterricht wahrnehmen und planen lernen: Eine qualitative Studie zur Professionalisierung von Lehramtsstudent:innen
  23. § 50 Nachweispflichten
  24. Freilandforschung im Unterricht - Erforschung ökologischer Grundprinzipien am Beispiel von Laufkäfern verschiedener Lebensräume
  25. A company's constitution
  26. § 284 Ersatz vergeblicher Aufwendungen
  27. Soziale Kompetenzen von Fußballtrainern
  28. Buena Vista, die Musik Kubas
  29. Neighbourhood effects on herbivory damage and chemical profiles in short-rotation coppice willows and their hybrids
  30. Stefan Korch: Haftung und Verhalten. Eine ökonomische Untersuchung des Haftungsrechts unter Berücksichtigung begrenzter Rationalität und komplexer Präferenzen. – Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015. (Studien zum Privatrecht; Bd. 42.)
  31. Nachhaltigkeitsexpertise als Kompetenzprofil des Aufsichtsrats