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

    Information Costs, Quality of Information and Stakeholder Involvement - The Necessity of International Standards of Ecological Accounting

    Schaltegger, S., 01.11.1997, In: Eco-Management and Auditing. 4, November, p. 87-97

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Economics of Life Cycle Assessment: Inefficiency of the Present Approach

    Schaltegger, S., 1997, In: Business Strategy and the Environment. 6, 1, p. 1-8 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Systematisierung ökonomischer Risiken durch globale Umweltprobleme

    Figge, F., 1997, In: Zeitschrift für angewandte Umweltforschung. 10, 2, p. 256-266 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Changing the Rules: Business-NGO Partnership and Structuration Theory

    Schneidewind, U. & Petersen, H., 1998, In: Greener Management International. 24, Winter, p. 105-114 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Private Kommunen: Funktionsweise und Entwicklung in der Praxis

    Schaltegger, S. & Gmünder, M., 1999, In: Aussenwirtschaft. 54, 2, p. 209-224

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Öko-Investment: Spagat zwischen Shareholder Value und Sustainable Development ?

    Schaltegger, S. & Figge, F., 1999, In: Umweltwirtschaftsforum. 7, 3, p. 4-8

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Ein Kriterium unter vielen: Öko-Effizienz als Element des sozio-ökonomisch vernünftigen Umweltmanagements

    Schaltegger, S., 01.07.1999, In: Ökologisches Wirtschaften. 14, 3, p. 12-14 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  8. Published

    Fälle unternehmerischer Nachhaltigkeit: Lerninstrumente für Forschung, Lehre und Praxis

    Schaltegger, S. (Editor), 2011, Lüneburg: Centre for Sustainability Management. 20 p. (CSM-Newsletter; vol. 1/2011)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueTransfer

  9. 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

  10. Published

    Demirovic, Alex, Julia Dück, Florian Becker u. Pauline Bader (Hg.), VielfachKrise im finanzmarktdominierten Kapitalismus, 2011

    Friedrich, B., 2011, In: Das Argument. 53, 4, p. 621-623 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch