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.
- 2009
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Building Assistance Systems using Distributed Knowledge Representations
Bollow, E., Faasch, H., Möller, A. & Welge, R., 2009, Environmental Informatics and Industrial Environmental Protection: Concepts, Methods and Tools: 23rd International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection. Wohlgemuth, V., Page, B. & Voigt, K. (eds.). Shaker Verlag, Vol. 1, Sessions. p. 120-135Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Business Model Concepts in Corporate Sustainability Contexts: From Rhetoric to a Generic Template for "Business Models for Sustainability"
Lüdeke-Freund, F., 2009, Lüneburg: Centre for Sustainability Management, 79 p.Research output: Working paper › Working papers
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Business Models for Sustainability: Innovative Regional Business Models as Subject and Trigger of a Sustainable Change in the Energy Industry
Lüdeke-Freund, F., 2009, Joint actions on climate change. 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Capacity building on sustainable flood risk and water management - transnational and transdisiclipnary activities in the Northsea region
Evers, M., Geißler, T. R., Nyberg, L. & Arthur, S., 2009, Road Map towards a flood resilient urban environment: Proceedings Final conference of the COST action C22 Urban Flood Management in cooperation with UNESCO-IHP Paris 26/27.11.2009. Pasche, E., Evelpidou, N., Zevenbergen, C., Ashley, R. & Garvin, S. (eds.). Hamburg: Institut für Wasserbau der Technischen Universität Hamburg, 10 p. (Hamburger Wasserbau-Schriften; vol. 6).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Chemikalien-Governance: Chemikalienregulierung aus ökonomischer Perspektive
Tschochohei, H., 2009, 1., Aufl. ed. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag. 228 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Coherence of European legal and structural conditions in water, wetland and flood risk management
Evers, M., 2009, HydroEco 2009: International multidisciplinary conference on hydrology and ecology : ecosystems interfacing with groundwater and surface water ; Proceedings. Bruthans, J., Kovar, K. & Nachtnebel, P. (eds.). 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Competence-Building in Sustainability
Schaltegger, S., 2009, In: Public Service Review. 4, p. 182-183 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Complementary biomass strategy: applying the ecosystem services concept in sustainable landscape management
Brüll, A., 2009, European landscapes in transformation: Challenges for landscape ecology and management. Jürgen, B., Finka, M. & Kozová, M. (eds.). Universität Salzburg, p. 404-408 4 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Contra a política de globalização neoliberal e a hierarquia nas relações de gênero: a contribuição das concepções feministas para uma economia sustentável
Gottschlich, D., 2009, In: Revista Contexto & Educação. 81, p. 1-17 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Czymmek, F., Freier, I., Hesselbarth, C. & Kleine, A., 2009, Betriebliches Umweltmanagement: nachhaltiges Wirtschaften in Unternehmen. Baumast, A. & Pape, J. (eds.). 4., korr. ed. Stuttgart: Eugen-Ulmer-Verlag, p. 241-254 14 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Defining and reorienting competencies for sustainable global change
Barth, M. & Drovandi, A., 2009, World in Transition: Sustainability Perspectives for Higher Education. Adomssent, M., Beringer, A. & Barth, M. (eds.). Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe: VAS Verlag für Akademische Schriften, p. 64-65 2 p. (Higher education for sustainability; no. 4).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Dehydration and Pelletisation of Agricultural Biomass by Extrusion
Müller, J., Lüdeke-Freund, F. & Lutzenberger, A., 2009, From research to industry and markets. G. F., D. S. (ed.). Hamburg, p. 427-429Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Der Einfluss der MINIPHÄNOMENTA auf die methodisch-formalen Fähigkeiten von Schülerinnen und Schülern der Primarstufe: Skizze einer Interventionsstudie im Kontext eines naturwissenschaftlichen Bildungsprojekts
Asmussen, S., 2009, In: www.widerstreit-sachunterricht.de. 13, 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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Der Kohlenstoffkreislauf im Klimawandel
Niebert, K., 2009, In: Unterricht Biologie. 33, 349, p. 34-40 7 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Education › peer-review
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Desarrollo sostenible y sus aspectos sociales. Reflexiones sobre el acceso global al conocimiento biomédico. El paradigma de la patente biomédica.
Guerra González, J., 2009, Retos de la investigación y comercialización de nuevos fármacos.. Romeo Casabona, C. (ed.). Bilbao-Granada: Comares, p. 183-218 35 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Determination of environmental impact of products along the supply chain - an integration scenario
Funk, B., Möller, A. & Niemeyer, P., 2009, Sessions: Sessions. Wohlgemuth, V., Page, B. & Vogt, K. (eds.). Shaker Verlag, Vol. 1. p. 367-374 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Developing shaping competence in informal setting at universities
Rieckmann, M., 2009, World in Transition: Sustainability Perspectives for Higher Education. Adomssent, M., Beringer, A. & Barth, M. (eds.). Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe: VAS Verlag für Akademische Schriften, p. 78-84 8 p. (Higher education for sustainability; no. 4).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Dialogorientierte Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung von Hochschulen : eine Untersuchung am Beispiel der Leuphana-Universität Lüneburg
Albrecht, P., 2009, Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag. 274 p. (Umweltkommunikation; vol. 5)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Die Anpassung und Kündigung öffentlich-rechtlicher Verträge am Beispiel des Altlastensanierungsvertrags
Sanden, J., 2009, In: Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht. 28, 8, p. 491-496 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Die Bedeutung des Stakeholderdialogs für die Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation von Unternehmen: Veranschaulichung empirischer Befunde unter näherer Betrachtung des Bankensektors
Hetze, K., 2009, Grin Verlag. 126 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review