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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Watershed groundwater balance estimation using streamflow recession analysis and baseflow separation
Wittenberg, H. & Sivapalan, M., 01.06.1999, In: Journal of Hydrology. 219, 1-2, p. 20-33 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Baseflow recession and recharge as nonlinear storage processes
Wittenberg, H., 15.04.1999, In: Hydrological Processes. 13, 5, p. 715-726 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Conference article in journal › Research › peer-review
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Effects of lead and cadmium uptake on the metabolic rate of the woodlouse Porcellio scaber (crustacea, isopoda: Oniscidea)
Coenen-Stass, D., 1998, In: Israel Journal of Zoology. 44, 3-4, p. 439-444 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Einfluss der Feldberegnung auf den Grundwasserhaushalt im Uelzener Becken-Ermittlung aus dem Basisabfluss
Wittenberg, H., 08.1998, In: Wasser und Boden. 50, 8, p. 41-44 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The temporal and spatial development of MeV proton acceleration at interplanetary shocks
Kallenrode, M. B., 01.10.1997, In: Journal of Geophysical Research A: Space Physics. 102, A10, p. 22347-22363 17 p., 97JA01678.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Propagation of particles injected from interplanetary shocks: A black box model and its consequences for acceleration theory and data interpretation
Kallenrode, M. B. & Wibberenz, G., 01.10.1997, In: Journal of Geophysical Research A: Space Physics. 102, A10, p. 22311-22334 24 p., 97JA01677.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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An overview of current trends in european environmental education
Filho, W. L., 1996, In: Journal of Environmental Education. 28, 1, p. 5-10 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Red List of marine macroalgae of the Wadden Sea
Nielsen, R., Schories, D., Hardtle, W., Reise, K. H. & Wolff, W. J., 01.10.1996, In: Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen. 50, Suppl. 1, p. 39-42 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Palynological evidence of younger middle Pleistocene interglacials (Holsteinian, Reinsdorf and Schoningen) in the Schoningen open cast lignite mine (eastern Lower Saxony, Germany)
Urban, B., 1995, In: Mededelingen - Rijks Geologische Dienst. 52, p. 175-185 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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On the theoretical concept of the potential natural vegetation and proposals for an up-to-date modification
Härdtle, W., 01.09.1995, In: Folia Geobotanica. 30, 3, p. 263-276 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review