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. 2013
  2. Published

    Post-dispersal seed predation of three grassland species in a plant diversity experiment

    Pufal, G. & Klein, A.-M., 12.2013, In: The Journal of Ecology. 6, 6, p. 468-479 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Spatial and seasonal distribution of trace metals in floodplain soils: A case study with the middle Elbe river, Germany

    Schulz-Zunkel, C., Krüger, F., Rupp, H., Meißner, R., Gruber, B., Gerisch, M. & Bork, H. R., 12.2013, In: Geoderma. 211-212, p. 128-137 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Subsistence and substitutability in consumer preferences

    Baumgärtner, S., Drupp, M. & Quaas, M. F., 12.2013, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 28 p. (University of Lüneburg Working Paper Series in Economics; no. 290).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  5. Published
  6. Published

    Differential reproductive responses to stress reveal the role of life-history strategies within a species

    Schultner, J., Kitaysky, A. S., Gabrielsen, G. W., Hatch, S. A. & Bech, C., 22.11.2013, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B . 280, 1771, 10 p., 20132090.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Effective change management, governance and policy for sustainability transformation in higher education

    Mader, C., Scott, G. & Razak, D. A., 18.11.2013, In: Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal. 4, 3, p. 264-284 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Comparing the performance of computational estimation methods for physicochemical properties of dimethylsiloxanes and selected siloxanols

    Buser, A. M., Schenker, S., Scheringer, M. & Hungerbühler, K., 14.11.2013, In: Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data. 58, 11, p. 3170-3178 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Countering Hybrid Eco-threats to Global Security Under International Law: The Need for an Comprehensive Legal Approach

    Sanden, J. & Bachmann, S. D., 01.11.2013, In: Liverpool Law Review. 34, 3, p. 261-289 29 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Coupling ordination techniques and GAM to spatially predict vegetation assemblages along a climatic gradient in an ENSO-affected region of extremely high climate variability

    Muenchow, J., Feilhauer, H., Bräuning, A., Bayer, F., Rodríguez, E. F., Rodríguez, R. A. & von Wehrden, H., 01.11.2013, In: Journal of Vegetation Science. 24, 6, p. 1154-1166 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Gremlin-1 is an inhibitor of macrophage migration inhibitory factor and attenuates atherosclerotic plaque growth in ApoE-/- mice

    Müller, I., Schönberger, T., Schneider, M., Borst, O., Ziegler, M., Seizer, P., Leder, C., Müller, K., Lang, M., Appenzeller, F., Lunov, O., Büchele, B., Fahrleitner, M., Olbrich, M., Langer, H., Geisler, T., Lang, F., Chatterjee, M., de Boer, J. F., Tietge, U. J., Bernhagen, J., Simmet, T. & Gawaz, M., 01.11.2013, In: The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288, 44, p. 31635-31645 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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Researchers

  1. Anike Waszak

Publications

  1. StadtLandschaften: Die neue Hybridität von Stadt und Land
  2. Arbeits- und Sozialrecht aktuell
  3. Lernen aus Fehlern anhand eines fallbasierten Curriculums im medizinischen Querschnittsbereich Gesundheitssysteme/Gesundheitsökonomie und öffentliche Gesundheitspflege
  4. Analysen zur Äquivalenz der Kompetenzmessung in Mathematik im Nationalen Bildungspanel und im Ländervergleich
  5. Empirische Arbeit: Belastungserleben im Praxissemester
  6. Sportwissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs 2000
  7. Inklusion als Thema der politischen Bildung
  8. Beschäftigungstrends 2005 Niedersachsen
  9. Wertfindung von Gebäuden aus Mauerwerk nach Immobilienwertermittlungsverordnung (ImmoWertV)
  10. Innovationsverbund Nachhaltige Smartphones
  11. Rüdiger Lautmann: Soziologie der Sexualität. Erotischer Körper, intimes Handeln und Sexualkultur.
  12. Ein nachhaltiges Schul-Audit - Ausgangspunkt und Ziel für einen nachhaltigen Lernprozess
  13. Mündliches Beschreiben von Bildern im Kontext des Kunstunterrichts zwischen schulsprachlichen Erwartungen und fachlichen Anforderungen
  14. Gottes Macht und die Mächte des Politischen
  15. Zum Demokratiedefizit in der Sozialen Arbeit mit ehemals rechtsorganisierten Rechtsextremen
  16. Familie und Paarbeziehung
  17. Einleitung in die Sportdidaktik
  18. Strukturelle Kopplungen im Bildungssystem
  19. Grundlagen des öffentlichen Wirtschaftsrechts
  20. Psychological treatment of generalized anxiety disorder
  21. Bodenentwicklungen und Bodenbelastungen der Mäanderschleife Wehninger Werder an der niedersächsischen Mittelelbe
  22. Die Regierungssysteme der mittel- und osteuropäischen EU-Staaten als Gegenstand der Vergleichenden Demokratieforschung
  23. Medienpsychologie
  24. Ikonen der Kriegs und Krisenfotografie
  25. Lernprozesse in der Berufsausbildung Nachhaltigkeitsorientiert gestalten
  26. Environmental chemistry of organosiloxanes
  27. Sportspiele vermitteln
  28. Religionskritik und der Streit um den biblischen Monotheismus
  29. Politische Bildung meets Politische Theorie - eine Conclusio
  30. Vertrag über die Europäische Union (EUV) : Artikel 22 [Initiativrecht]
  31. Organisationstheorien von Agamben bis Žižek
  32. Quasiexperimentelle Untersuchung am Hamburger Flughafen zum Komfort in der Flugzeugkabine
  33. § 288 Verzugszinsen und sonstiger Verzugsschaden
  34. Skål, Admiral von Schneider!