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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Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung für pädagogische Fachkräfte in Kitas
Stoltenberg, U., 2011, KITA21 – Die Zukunftsgestalter. Mit Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung Gegenwart und Zukunft gestalten. Stoltenberg, U. & Thielebein-Pohl, R. (eds.). München: oekom verlag GmbH, p. 27-56 30 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung als orientierendes Konzept für die Arbeit von Kitas
Stoltenberg, U., 2011, KITA21 – Die Zukunftsgestalter. Mit Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung Gegenwart und Zukunft gestalten. Stoltenberg, U. & Thielebein-Pohl, R. (eds.). München: oekom verlag GmbH, p. 21-26 6 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Ein neuer Blick auf Kitas
Stoltenberg, U., 2011, KITA21 – Die Zukunftsgestalter. Mit Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung Gegenwart und Zukunft gestalten. Stoltenberg, U. & Thielebein-Pohl, R. (eds.). München: oekom verlag GmbH, p. 13-20 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Kita 21 - Die Zukunftsgestalter: Mit Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung Gegenwart und Zukunft gestalten
Stoltenberg, U. (Editor) & Thielebein-Pohl, R. (Editor), 2011, München: oekom verlag GmbH. 160 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Trade-offs between justices, economics, and efficiency
Baumgärtner, S., Glotzbach, S., Hoberg, N., Quaas, M. F. & Stumpf, K. H., 2011, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 13 p. (Working Paper Series in Economics; no. 218).Research output: Working paper › Working papers
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Environmental Management Accounting
Bennett, M., Schaltegger, S. & Zvezdov, D., 26.10.2011, Review of Management Accounting Research. Abdel-Kader, M. (ed.). Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 53-84 32 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Religiöse und Ästhetische Strategien der Erhaltung und Erinnerung oraler Traditionen: jüdische Textkultur und das Werk Arnold Dreyblatts – zwischen Performanz und digitaler Remedialisierung
Holz, V., 07.10.2011, Neues Erbe: Aspekte, Perspektiven und Konsequenzen der digitalen Überlieferung. Robertson-von Trotha, C. Y. & Hauser, R. (eds.). Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing, p. 163-180 18 p. (Kulturelle Überlieferung - Digital; vol. 1).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Hochwasser- und Küstenschutz unter Klimawandelbedingungen als besonderes Aufgabengebiet von Partizipation und Kooperation
Grunenberg, H. & Knolle, M., 2011, Nachhaltige Gesellschaft : Welche Rolle für Partizipation und Kooperation?. Heinrichs, H., Kuhn, K. & Newig, J. (eds.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 167-185 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Neue Entwicklungen der empirischen Zugänge in der Partizipations- und Kooperationsforschung
Grunenberg, H., 2011, Nachhaltige Gesellschaft : Welche Rolle für Partizipation und Kooperation?. Heinrichs, H., Kuhn, K. & Newig, J. (eds.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 46-62 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review