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

    Probabilistic approach to modelling of recession curves

    Aksoy, H., Bayazit, M. & Wittenberg, H., 01.04.2001, In: Hydrological Sciences Journal. 46, 2, p. 269-285 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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  3. Published

    Öffentliches Wirtschaftsrecht

    Oberrath, J.-D., Schmidt, A. & Schomerus, T., 2002, Stuttgart: Boorberg-Verlag. 144 p. (Arbeitsbücher Wirtschaftsrecht)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCompendium/lecture notesEducation

  4. Published

    A Framework and Typology of Ecopreneurship: Leading Bioneers and Environmental Managers to Ecopreneurship

    Schaltegger, S., 28.09.2005, Making Ecopreneurs: Developing Sustainable Entrepreneurship (Corporate Social Responsibility). Schaper, M. (ed.). Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, p. 43-60 18 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    8. Uranium-series dating of peat from central and Northern Europe

    Frechen, M., Sierralta, M., Oezen, D. & Urban, B., 2007, The climate of past interglacials. Sirocko, F., Claussen, M., Litt, T. & Sanchez-Goni, M. F. (eds.). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Elsevier Scientific Publishing, p. 93-117 25 p. (Developments in Quaternary Science; vol. 7).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    European Union law by Alina Kaczorowska

    Schomerus, T., 05.2009, In: The Modern Law Review. 72, 3, p. 517-518 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  7. Published

    Vom Integrated Coastal Zone Management zum Coastal Energy Management

    Runge, K., 2002, Coastal Energy Management: Integration Erneuerbarer Energieerzeugung an der Küste . Runge, K. (ed.). Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, p. 11-20 10 p. (Energierecht und Energiewirtschaft; vol. 2).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  8. Published

    Quartäre Vegetations- und Klimaentwicklung im Tagebau Schöningen

    Urban, B., 2007, Die Schöninger Speere: Mensch und Jagd vor 400000 Jahren . Thieme, H. (ed.). Stuttgart: Theiss Verlag, p. 66-75 10 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    "Sustainable University": nachhaltige Entwicklung als Strategie und Ziel von Hochschulentwicklung

    Michelsen, G. (Editor), Adomßent, M. (Editor) & Godemann, J. (Editor), 2008, Frankfurt am Main: VAS Verlag für Akademische Schriften. 186 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  10. Published

    28. Interglacial pollen records from schöningen, North Germany

    Urban, B., 2007, The Climate of Past Interglacials. Sirocko, F., Claussen, M., Goñi, M. F. S. & Litt, T. (eds.). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Elsevier Scientific Publishing, p. 417-444 28 p. (Developments in Quaternary Sciences; vol. 7).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

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Activities

  1. Fachgespräch ,,Handlungsmöglichkeiten zur Minderung des Eintrags von Humanarzneimitteln und ihren Rückständen oder Metaboliten in das Roh- und Trinkwasser“ - 2010
  2. Gutachterin für Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen)
  3. Globales Lernen - Von der Praxis in die Wissenschaft: Zum Forschungsstand eines interdisziplinären Bildungskonzeptes.
  4. Tagung am Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung: "Geschichte als Erlebnis: Performative Praktiken in der Geschichtskultur"
  5. Vortragsreihe des internationalen Theaterprojekts ,,The Invisible Empire" - 2010
  6. electronic International Journal of Time Use Research (eIJTUR) (Zeitschrift)
  7. "Die sentimentalen Geldscheine der Zivilisation": Phototheorie zwischen Fetischismus und Exorzismus
  8. Selbstregulation im Alltag und spontane mentale Kontrastierung [Self-regulation in every-day life an spontaneous mental contrasting]
  9. Konferenz der Institute für Italienstudien und Germanistik - 2008
  10. Annual International Symposium of the International Space University - ISU 2011
  11. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland - GfÖ 2016
  12. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Chemie und Physik - GDCP 2022
  13. Guy Hocquenghem - historische Sexualwissenschaft und queerer Marxismus
  14. Molecules: a journal of synthetic organic and natural product chemistry (Zeitschrift)
  15. Kindliches Erleben beim Arbeiten mit Karten im Realraum – Anlagen & Befunde erster phänomenografischer Studien
  16. Zum Wesen des Entscheidungsspielraums in der Kriegswaffenexportkontrolle
  17. Social Media, Partizipation und Nachhaltige Entwicklung

Publications

  1. Govern Like You Mean It
  2. Microbiological and environmental effects of aquifer thermal energy storage
  3. The origins of goals in the German Bundesliga
  4. Sustainable Corporate Governance: Integration von Nachhaltigkeit in das Aktien- und Bilanzrecht (Teil II)
  5. Rechtsangleichung zwischen Gemeinschafts- und Unionsrecht – die Richtlinie über die Vorratsdatenspeicherung vor dem EuGH
  6. Wiesing, Lambert: Das Mich der Wahrnehmung. Eine Autopsie, Suhrkamp Verlag 2009
  7. Kommunikative Konstitution von Organisationen
  8. Kooperation und Konkurrenz unter gleichrangigen Partnern
  9. Statusinkonsistenz und politische Verhaltensdispositionen
  10. „Ich möchte nur ein Gesicht haben.“
  11. Trauer um Prof. Hermann Schweppenhäuser
  12. Immanenz und Produktivität der Normen
  13. Politicized Transnationalism: The Visegrád Countries in the Refugee Crisis
  14. Generation 35 plus
  15. "Soziale und ethnische Mischung" - zur Persistenz eines wohnungspolitischen Leitbildes
  16. La scomparsa delle impressioni
  17. Law versus Economics? How should insurance intermediaries influence the insurance demand decision.
  18. Die geistige Geographie Europas
  19. Restoration ecology meets carabidology: effects of floodplain restitution on ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae)
  20. Wie Österreich die Chancen der Energiewende nutzen kann
  21. Lehramtsstudium Sozialpädagogik
  22. Flucht und Bildung: Hochschulen
  23. The media arcane
  24. Leseunterricht in der Grundschule
  25. Effects of elevated CO2, O3 and K deficiency on Norway spruce (Picea abies)
  26. Zur (Un-)Bedeutsamkeit der Ökonomisierung. Eine Differenzierung des Einflusses ökonomischer Logiken auf Akteur:innen der stationären Kinder- und Jugendhilfe
  27. Die neukonzipierte Lehre der Universität St. Gallen und ihr Kontextstudium als ein Weg zu nachhaltiger Bildung
  28. Heiligabend, ein Mietwagen und ein Happy End
  29. Subjective social status and well-being of adolescents and young adults in Ghanaian schools