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

    Xenotransplantation: Prävention des xenogenen Infektionsrisikos: Eine Untersuchung zum deutschen und spanischen Recht

    Guerra González, J., 20.10.2008, Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag. 348 p. (Recht und Medizin; vol. 91)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsEducation

  2. Published

    Xenogeneic infection risk: limits to individual right restrictions

    Gonzalez, J. G., 2011, In: Xenotransplantation. 18, 1, p. 67-67 1 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference abstract in journalResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Wyzwania edukacji na rzecz zrównoważonego rozwoju w konflikcie między praktycznością warunkami strukturalnymi a transferem konceptualnej kompleksowości

    Holz, V. & Stoltenberg, U., 2010, Zrownowazony rozwoj - ponadnarodowo. Spojrzenia i doswiadczenia z Europy Srodkowej. Banse, G., Janikowski, R. & Kiepas, A. (eds.). Berlin: edition sigma, Vol. 16.2. p. 171-187 17 p. (Global zukunftsfähige Entwicklung – Nachhaltigkeitsforschung in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft; vol. 16.2).

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

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  5. Published

    WTO

    Bäumler, J., 2019, EU-Außenwirtschafts- und Zollrecht. Herrmann, C. & Niestedt, M. (eds.). München: C.H. Beck Verlag, Vol. 2. 60 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions in collection of commentariesResearch

  6. Published

    Worse is worse and better doesn't matter? The effects of favorable and unfavorable environmental information on consumers’ willingness to pay

    Petersen, L., Hörisch, J. & Jacobs, K., 10.2021, In: Journal of Industrial Ecology. 25, 5, p. 1338-1356 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Worldwide Trends in Green Chemistry Education

    Zuin, V. (Editor) & Mammino, L. (Editor), 2015, 1st ed. ed. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry. 347 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

  8. Published

    Worldwide distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants in air, including results of air monitoring by passive air sampling in five continents

    Bogdal, C., Scheringer, M., Abad, E., Abalos, M., van Bavel, B., Hagberg, J. & Fiedler, H., 05.2013, In: Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 46, p. 150-161 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    World in Transition: Sustainability Perspectives for Higher Education

    Adomßent, M. (Editor), Beringer, A. (Editor) & Barth, M. (Editor), 2009, Frankfurt am Main: VAS Verlag für Akademische Schriften. 245 p. (Higher education for sustainability; no. 4)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  10. Published

    Workshops mit lokalen Akteuren

    Zimmermann, T., Fröhlich, J., Katz, C. & Porschke, C., 2014, Stadtentwicklung und Klimaanpassung: Klimafolgen, Anpassungskonzepte und Bewusstseinsbildung beispielhaft dargestellt am Einzugsgebiet der Wandse, Hamburg. Kruse, E., Zimmermann, T., Kittel, A., Dickhaut, W., Knieling, J. & Sörensen, C. (eds.). Hamburg: TuTech Verlag, p. 188-191 4 p. (Berichte aus den KLIMZUG-NORD Modellgebieten; vol. 2).

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

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