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. 2007
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    Improvement of GC sensitivity for polar and nonpolar PAHs by using a deactivated liner

    Meyer, D., Dressler, H. & Ruck, W., 02.2007, In: LC-GC North America. 25, 2, p. 180-190 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

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    High performance liquid chromatographic determination of etofibrate and its hydrolysis products.

    El-Gindy, A., Hadad, G. M. & Mahmoud, W. M. M., 04.01.2007, In: Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 43, 1, p. 196–203 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Methods and compositions relating to a vaccine against prostate cancer

    Leder, C., King, A. D., Pavlenko, M. & Pisa, P., 04.01.2007, IPC No. A61K39/00 (2006.01), Patent No. WO/2007/002149 A2, 21.06.2006

    Research output: PatentsPatent

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    40. Chronology and climate forcing of the last four interglacials

    Sirocko, F., Claussen, M., Litt, T., Fernanda Sánchez Goñi, M., Berger, A., Boettger, T., Diehl, M., Desprat, S., Delmonte, B., Degering, D., Frechen, M., A. Geyh, M., Groeger, M., Kageyama, M., Kaspar, F., Kühl, N., Kubatzki, C., Lohmann, G., Loutre, M. F., Müller, U., Rein, B., Rosendahl, W., Roucoux, K., Rousseau, D. D., Seelos, K., Siddall, M., Scholz, D., Spötl, C., Urban, B., Vautravers, M., Velichko, A., Wenzel, S., Widmann, M. & Wünnemann, B., 01.01.2007, In: Developments in Quaternary Science. 7, C, p. 597-614 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalResearchpeer-review

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    Dry grassland communities on southern Öland: Phytosociology, ecology, and diversity

    Löbel, S. & Dengler, J., 01.01.2007, In: Acta Phytogeographica Suecica. 88, p. 13-31 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  7. Published

    E-Government: Wirtschaftliche Symbiose von eAkten und pAkten: Integration der RFID-Technologie in das Schriftgut

    Bonin, H. E. G., 01.01.2007, In: Verwaltung & Management. 13, 4, p. 208-211 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

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    Gläserne Energieversorgungsunternehmen? neue Pflichten nach dem geänderten Umweltinformationsrecht

    Schomerus, T., 01.01.2007, Europa - Verfassung, Arbeit, Umwelt: liber amicorum Hartwig Donner . Heilmann, J. & Schubert, J. (eds.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 37-52 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

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    Impact of sod-cutting and choppering on nutrient budgets of dry heathlands

    Niemeyer, M., Niemeyer, T., Fottner, S., Haerdtle, W. & Mohamed, A., 01.01.2007, In: Biological Conservation. 134, 3, p. 344-353 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Water quality indices across Europe - a comparison of the good ecological status of five river basins

    von der Ohe, P. C., Prüß, A., Schäfer, R. B., Liess, M., de Deckere, E. & Brack, W., 01.01.2007, In: Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 9, 9, p. 970-978 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    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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    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

  13. Published

    Agro-biodiversity as natural insurance and the development of financial insurance markets

    Baumgärtner, S. & Quaas, M. F., 2007, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 26 p. (Working paper series in economics; no. 61).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  14. Published

    A klímavédelem alapvető feladatai

    Palocz-Andresen, M., 2007, Épületgépészet a gyakorlatban: kézikönyv épületgépészeti tervezéshez, kivitelezéshez. Bánhidi , L. (ed.). Budapest: Dashöfer Verlag, p. 1-38 39 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  15. Published

    Aphaenopidius kamnikensis Drovenik 1987 in Kärnten

    Drovenik, B., Weber, F., Paill, W. & Aßmann, T., 2007, In: Angewandte Carabidologie. 8, p. 73-76 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

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  17. Published

    Berechnung von Eisengehalten und Verockerungspotential von Schluckbrunnen mithilfe von Temperatur-, Redoxpotential-, pH-Wert-, Leitfähigkeits- und Sauerstoffsättigungsdaten

    Opel, O. & Novio Liñares, J. A., 2007, Der Geothermiekongress 2007 - Energie für alle Fälle: 29.-31.10.2007 in Bochum. Tagungsband. CD-ROM. Geeste: Bundesverband Geothermie e.V.

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

  18. Published

    Besonderheiten der Evaluation transdisziplinärer Forschung und der Stellenwert von Kompetenz

    Godemann, J., 2007, Evaluation inter- und transdisziplinärer Forschung: Humanökologie und Nachhaltigkeitsforschung auf dem Prüfstand. Stoll-Kleemann, S. & Pohl, C. (eds.). München: oekom verlag GmbH, p. 123-136 14 p. (Edition Humanökologie : Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Humanökologie ; vol. 5).

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

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    Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung: ein motivierendes Konzept

    Stoltenberg, U., 2007, Jahrbuch für Nachhaltigkeit 2007. Hellwig, M. & Hemker, R. (eds.). Münster: ecotransfer Verlags- und Bildungsgesellschaft, p. 50-52 3 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

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    Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung als regionales Projekt

    Stoltenberg, U., 2007, Tradition und Innovation: Region und Bildung in einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung. Stoltenberg, U. & Emmermann, C. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: VAS Verlag für Akademische Schriften, p. 80-92 13 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  21. Published

    Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung und das eigene Leben

    Stoltenberg, U., 2007, Der (Sach-)Unterricht und das eigene Leben. Schomaker, C. & Stockmann, R. (eds.). Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, p. 201-212 12 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch