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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Positive intercropping effects on biomass production are species-specific and involve rhizosphere enzyme activities: Evidence from a field study
Kumar, A., Blagodaskaya, E., Dippold, M. A. & Temperton, V., 01.12.2022, In: Soil Ecology Letters. 4, 4, p. 444-453 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Gone and forgotten: facilitative effects of intercropping combinations did not carry over to affect barley performance in a follow‑up crop rotation
Kumar, A., Rosinger, C., Chen, H., Protic, S., Bonkowski, M. & Temperton, V., 10.2021, In: Plant and Soil. 467, 1-2, p. 405-419 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Following Health Measures in the Pandemic: A Matter of Values?
Schuster, C., 14.09.2021, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 12, 17 p., 731799.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Integrating indigenous and local knowledge in management and research on coastal ecosystems in the Global South: A literature review
Loch, T. K. & Riechers, M., 15.10.2021, In: Ocean and Coastal Management. 212, 19 p., 105821.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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Ein Unterstützungsraster zur Planung und Reflexion inklusiven naturwissenschaftlichen Unterrichts
González, L. F., Fühner, L., Sührig, L., Weck, H., Weirauch, K. & Abels, S., 06.2021, Naturwissenschaftsdidaktik und Inklusion. Abels, S., Hundertmark, S., Nehring, A., Schildknecht, R., Seremet, V. & Sun, X. (eds.). Weinheim: Beltz Juventa Verlag, p. 191-215 25 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Education › peer-review
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Naturwissenschaftsdidaktik und Inklusion
Hundertmark, S. (Editor), Sun, X. (Editor), Abels, S. (Editor), Nehring, A. (Editor), Schildknecht, R. (Editor), Seremet, V. (Editor) & Lindmeier, C. (Editor), 06.2021, Weinheim, Basel: Beltz Juventa Verlag. 282 p. (Beiheft Sonderpädagogische Förderung heute; no. 4)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Education
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Sustainability in Business: Integrated Management of Value Creation and Disvalue Mitigation
Beckmann, M. & Schaltegger, S., 28.06.2021, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management. Aldag, R. J. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 24 p. (Oxford Research Encyclopedias).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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Reducing Environmental Pollution by Antibiotics through Design for Environmental Degradation
Leder, C., Suk, M., Lorenz, S., Rastogi, T., Pfeifer, C., Kietzmann, M., Jonas, D., Buck, M., Pahl, A. & Kümmerer, K., 19.07.2021, In: ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 9, 28, p. 9358–9368 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The economic drivers and consequences of agricultural specialization
Abson, D. J., 01.01.2018, Agroecosystem Diversity: Reconciling Contemporary Agriculture and Environmental Quality. Lemaire, G., Carvalho, P., Kronberg, S. & Recous, S. (eds.). Academic Press Inc., p. 301-315 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Red and green loops help uncover missing feedbacks in a coral reef social–ecological system
Dajka, J. C., Woodhead, A. J., Norström, A. V., Graham, N. A. J., Riechers, M. & Nyström, M., 09.2020, In: People and Nature. 2, 3, p. 608-618 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review