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

    Rebound effects: Management and Prevention. Guideline for Companies

    Wolff, F., Gensch, C.-O., Kampffmeyer, N., Schöpflin, P., Lautermann, C., Gebauer, J., Schaltegger, S., Norris, S., Wüst, S., Thiel, D. & Buda, F., 2023, Öko-Institut.

    Research output: Working paperProject reportsResearch

  2. Published

    What enables metals ‘being’ ‘responsible’? An exploratory study on the enabling of organizational identity claims through a new sustainability standard

    Imbrogiano, J.-P., Steiner, B., Junior, R. M. & Sturman, K., 01.06.2023, In: Resources Policy. 83, p. 1-10 10 p., 103619.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Rethinking Economic Practices and Values As Assemblages of More-Than-Human Relations

    Ortiz-Przychodzka, S., Benavides-Frías, C., Raymond, C. M., Díaz-Reviriego, I. & Hanspach, J., 01.09.2023, In: Ecological Economics. 211, 9 p., 107866.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Sustainable digitalization – fostering the twin transformation in a transdisciplinary way

    Barth, M., Gossen, M., Lang, D. J. & Santarius, T., 13.03.2023, In: GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. 32, Sp1, p. 6-9 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Visualizing stakeholders’ willingness for collective action in participatory scenario planning

    López-Rodríguez, M. D., Oteros-Rozas, E., Ruiz-Mallén, I., March, H., Horcea-Milcu, A. I., Heras, M., Cebrián-Piqueras, M. A., Andrade, R., Lo, V. B. P. G. & Piñeiro, C., 05.2023, In: Ecology and Society. 28, 2, 23 p., 5.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    If you call for frameworks in sustainability management... editorial to the special issue

    Hörisch, J., Schaltegger, S., Weissbrod, I. & Schreck, P., 01.05.2023, In: Journal of Business Economics : JBE. 93, 4, p. 559-566 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  7. Published

    Wer gewinnt? Steigendes (DNP-)Anspruchsniveau an das Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement

    Schaltegger, S., 28.03.2023, Das Nachhaltigkeitsbuch 2023. Schulze-Hausmann, S. & Bachmann, G. (eds.). Düsseldorf: Stiftung Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis e.V., p. 48-49 2 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherTransfer

  8. Published

    Increasing the accuracy and efficiency of wildlife census with unmanned aerial vehicles: a simulation study

    Fust, P. & Loos, J., 09.02.2023, In: Wildlife Research. 50, 12, p. 1008-1020 13 p., WR22074.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  9. Published

    Food Security, Women, and Higher Education in Aceh

    Shamadiyah, N. & Amalia, N., 17.12.2022, In: Proceedings of Malikussaleh International Conference on Multidisciplinary Studies (MICoMS). 3, 6 p., 00053.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalResearch

  10. Published

    Social capital strengthens agency among fish farmers: Small scale aquaculture in Bulacan, Philippines

    Manlosa, A. O., Albrecht, J. & Riechers, M., 21.02.2023, In: Frontiers in Aquaculture. 2, 14 p., 1106416.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

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Activities

  1. Zusammenhänge verstehen – die Zukunft gestalten: Festvortrag anlässlich der Auszeichnung „Lernorte der Zukunft Hessen“
  2. Determinants and management consequences of normative views of sustainability in Namibian commercial cattle farming
  3. Including Justice in Institutional Analysis - How Do Frameworks for Institutional Analysis Consider Ideas of Justice?
  4. All Kinds of Special: Using Multi-Perspective Videos to Prepare Pre-Service Teachers for Inclusive English Instruction
  5. Sustainability and Internal Supply Chain Management: A Conceptual Approach to Intra-Organisational Knowledge Transfer
  6. Combing Wind, Adorning Water. Afro-Indigenous Approximations in the Art Practices of Edgar Calel and Sandra Monterroso
  7. Organizational Practices for the Aging Workforce: Validation of an English Version of the Later Life Workplace Index
  8. Never gonna give you up! Better gonna take you back? Negotiating Benefits and Burdens in Common Resource Negotiations
  9. Understanding Learning Processes For Developing Key Competencies In Sustainability Implication For Higher Education
  10. ¿Educación para la Conservación de la Biodiversidad? Contribuciones de la Educación Superior al Desarrollo Sostenible
  11. Englisches und Romanisches Seminar der Leibniz Universität Hannover. Doktorandenkolloquium der Fremdsprachendidaktik
  12. Die Gegenwart des Antikolonialismus in den künstlerischen Arbeiten von Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc und Bouchra Khalili
  13. „Theorie und Praxis: Globales Lernen und Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung – Positionen, Potentiale, Perspektiven“
  14. Zur Kultur der Klangerzeuger. Das theoretische Konzept "Musikinstrument" im Kontext technikkultureller Konfigurationen.
  15. Advantages and challenges of in silico tools and their contribution to sustainable chemistry with the focus on (Q)SAR
  16. Meeting Halfway. John C. Lilly‘s Cybernetic Dolphin Experiments (Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society 2013)
  17. Zwischen elektronischer Musik und populärer Avantgarde. Das Studienkonzept des Lüneburger Schwerpunktbereichs ((audio))

Publications

  1. Pre-service mathematics teachers' modelling processes within model eliciting activity through digital technologies
  2. Theorie und Praxis in sozialpädagogischen Bildungsgängen - Erste Strukturierungsansätze vielfältiger Verhältnisse
  3. Kommentierung von Art. 115 AEUV: Nationales Recht mit unmittelbarer Auswirkung àu den Binnenmarkt, Rechtsangleichung
  4. Einfluss der Bewirtschaftungsintensität auf die Wachstumsdynamik von Waldmeister-Buchenwäldern (Galio odorat-Fagetum)
  5. Abwärts in der Spirale? oder Wirkung und Nutzung von gewalthaltigen Bildschirmspielen durch Kinder und Jugendliche
  6. Interactions between species richness, herbivory and precipitation affect standing biomass in Mongolian rangelands
  7. Individual motivation among entrepreneurs in the creative and cultural industries: A self-determination perspective
  8. Reducing symptoms of major depressive disorder through a systematic training of general emotion regulation skills
  9. Laufkäfer-Gemeinschaften (Coleoptera, Carabidae) xerothermer Sandrasen und ihre Abhängigkeit von Beweidungsmaßnahmen
  10. The impact of the 2004 EU enlargement on the performance of service enterprises in Germany's eastern border region
  11. Die (sozialwissenschaftliche) Hermeneutik als inter- und transdisziplinäre Methode zur Rekonstruktion des Imaginären
  12. Need Satisfaction and Optimal Functioning at Leisure and Work: A Longitudinal Validation Study of the DRAMMA Model
  13. Zwischen Beanspruchung und Burnout: Wechselseitige Zufriedenheitszuschreibungen im System des lebenslangen Lernens
  14. Beiträge zu Dilherrs Emblematischer Hand- und Reisepostille, Werke und Korrespondenz, Bd. 7, 2: Apparate und Kommentare
  15. Representative time use data and new harmonised calibration of the American Heritage Time Use Data (AHTUD) 1965-1999
  16. Beobachtung und Reflexion als zentrales Instrument der Erziehungs- und Bildungsbegleitung in der Kindertagesstätte
  17. Damage in beech forests of Schleswig-Holstein (Northern Germany) in relation to forest structure and soil conditions
  18. Modellierung von klimainduzierten Veränderungen des Bodenwasserhaushalts von Auenböden an der unteren Mittelelbe.
  19. DialogueMaps: Supporting interactive transdisciplinary dialogues with a web-based tool for multi-layer knowledge maps
  20. Plant diversity surpasses plant functional groups and plant productivity as driver of soil biota in the long term
  21. 'You are angels': understanding the entanglement of family and enterprise in an early-stage family-run coworking space
  22. Geißel, Brigitte: Kritische Bürger - Gefahr oder Ressource für die Demokratie? Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag 2011
  23. Can Geodesign Be Used to Facilitate Boundary Management for Planning and Implementation of Nature-based Solutions?
  24. Matching between oral inward–outward movements of object names and oral movements associated with denoted objects
  25. 25 Jahre Conservation Reserve Program der USA: Erfahrungen und Perspektiven für die europäische Agrarumweltpolitik
  26. Case study meta-analysis in the social sciences. Insights on data quality and reliability from a large-N case survey
  27. Hydration and dehydration of salt hydrates and hydroxides for thermal energy storage – kinetics and energy release
  28. Establishment success in a forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning experiment in subtropical China (BEF-China)