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. 2015
  2. Published

    The influence of leaf litter diversity and soil fauna on initial soil erosion in subtropical forests

    Seitz, S., Goebes, P., Zumstein, P., Aßmann, T., Kühn, P., Niklaus, P. A., Schuldt, A. & Scholten, T., 15.09.2015, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 40, 11, p. 1439-1447 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Thermal decomposition kinetic of salt hydrates for heat storage systems

    Fopah Lele, A., Kuznik, F., Rammelberg, H., Osterland, T. & Ruck, W., 15.09.2015, In: Applied Energy. 154, p. 447-458 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    20 years of performance measurement in sustainable supply chain management: What has been achieved?

    Beske-Janssen, P., Johnson, M. & Schaltegger, S., 14.09.2015, In: Supply Chain Management. 20, 6, p. 664-680 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  5. Published

    Putting sustainable supply chain management into base of the pyramid research

    Khalid, R. U., Seuring, S., Land, A., Yawar, S. A., Wagner, R. & Beske-Janssen, P., 14.09.2015, In: Supply Chain Management. 20, 6, p. 681-696 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    The role of plant biodiversity in modifying the structure and functioning of higher tropic Levels in species-rich forests

    Schuldt, A., 10.09.2015, Lüneburg. 269 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesPost-doctoral dissertations

  7. Published

    Carbon Management Accounting and Reporting in Practice: A Case Study on Converging Emergent Approaches

    Gibassier, D. & Schaltegger, S., 07.09.2015, In: Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal. 6, 3, p. 340-365 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Gatekeepers of Sustainability Information: Exploring the Roles of Accountants

    Schaltegger, S. & Zvezdov, D., 07.09.2015, In: Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change. 11, 3, p. 333-361 29 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Incorporating anthropogenic effects into trophic ecology: Predator - Prey interactions in a human-dominated landscape

    Dorresteijn, I., Schultner, J., Nimmo, D. G., Fischer, J., Hanspach, J., Kuemmerle, T., Kehoe, L. & Ritchie, E. G., 07.09.2015, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B . 282, 1814, 8 p., 20151602.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Agro-ecosystem services and dis-services in almond orchards are differentially influenced by the surrounding landscape

    Schäckermann, J., Pufal, G., Mandelik, Y. & Klein, A. M., 01.09.2015, In: Ecological Entomology. 40, S1, p. 12-21 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Early subtropical forest growth is driven by community mean trait values and functional diversity rather than the abiotic environment

    Kröber, W., Li, Y., Härdtle, W., Ma, K., Schmid, B., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T., Seidler, G., von Oheimb, G., Welk, E., Wirth, C. & Bruehlheide, H., 01.09.2015, In: Ecology and Evolution. 5, 17, p. 3541-3556 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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  2. Aquatectur - Wasser als Produkt und Spiegel der Landschaft
  3. Hörbücher bewerten können
  4. Digitale Gesundheitskommunikation und -kompetenzen in Zeiten von COVID-19.
  5. Die kommunale Ebene in Sachsen-Anhalt: Entwicklung und Herausforderungen der Kommunalpolitik seit der Wende
  6. Inzest und Autor-Imago im Marionettentheater. Zum Identitätskonzept in Felicitas Hoppes Paradiese, Übersee.
  7. Sorgfaltspflichten in der Wertschöpfungskette als Bestandteil der Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung
  8. Bildungsstandards mündliche Kommunikation
  9. Regulierung der Corporate Governance nach dem Finanzmarktintegritätsstärkungsgesetz (FISG)
  10. Kooperation an inklusiven Schulen
  11. The well-being and work-related stress of senior school leaders in Wales and Northern Ireland during COVID-19 "educational leadership crisis"
  12. Fraud-Prävention in Kreditinstituten
  13. Lehrphilosophien als Reflexionsinstrument: Berufsbezogene Überzeugungen angehender Deutsch als Zweit- und Fremdsprachenlehrkräfte zwischen Wunsch und Wirklichkeit
  14. Vergleich der Wärmeabsorption von Gasen
  15. Nachhaltigkeit, Wissensgesellschaft und lebenslanges Lernen
  16. Schullaufbahnempfehlungen von Lehrkräften für Kinder am Ende der vierten Jahrgangsstufe
  17. Potenziale elektronischer Schulbücher für die muttersprachliche Phraseodidaktik
  18. Otto Mueller, Brücke-Museum Berlin, (2014) Hirmer Verlag, München, Christiane Remm (Hg.)
  19. Tippelschritte auf dem Weg zum kollektiven Rechtsschutz: Der Referentenentwurf zur Entfristung des KapMuG
  20. Is ecotourism a panacea? Political ecology perspectives from the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India
  21. Ein Buch über Steine
  22. Fachspezifische Lerngelegenheiten zum Thema Inklusion an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
  23. Doris Liebscher, Rasse im Recht, Recht gegen Rassismus. Genealogie einer ambivalenten rechtlichen Kategorie. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2021, 498 S., br., 26,00 €
  24. Unterrichtshandeln von Lehrkräften und Schülern verbessern durch Förderung emotionaler Kompetenzen
  25. 70. Tagung der Kommission Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung (AEPF)
  26. Gelingens- und Misslingensfaktoren bei Projekten zur systematischen Förderung der Lehrergesundheit: Erfahrungen aus einem Modellprojekt
  27. Sprechwissenschaft und Sprecherziehung
  28. Schmerzensgeld - schneller, höher und wie weiter?
  29. Von Delfinhaut bis Wolfskin
  30. Zum Einfluss des Lösungsglühens und Aushärtens auf die Mikrostruktur von ZK40-Legierungen, modifiziert durch Zugaben von Ca, Gd, Nd und Y
  31. 1933 - Die Versuchung der Theologie, Zeitgeschichtliche Forschungen
  32. werkstatt frauenfilm - Filme aus der Region
  33. Rezension zu: Nüchter, Oliver et al. (2010): Der Sozialstaat im Urteil der Bevölkerung, Opladen/Farmington Hills
  34. Narratology meets translation studies, or, the voice of the translator in children's literature
  35. Science-Fiction, spekulativer Feminismus und strafkritische Fabulation. Strafabolitionismus mit Ursula K. Le Guins "The Dispossessed".