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. 2023
  2. Published

    Triggering root system plasticity in a changing environment with bacterial bioinoculants – Focus on plant P nutrition

    Baudson, C., Delory, B. M., du Jardin, P. & Delaplace, P., 03.2023, In: Plant and Soil. 484, 1-2, p. 49-63 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    A kinetic study of the photolysis of sulfamethoxazole with special emphasis on the photoisomer

    Palm, W. U., Schmidt, N., Stahn, M. & Grimme, S., 01.03.2023, In: Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences. 22, 3, p. 615-630 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services

    Loos, J., Benra, F., Berbés-Blázquez, M., Bremer, L. L., Chan, K. M. A., Egoh, B., Felipe-Lucia, M., Geneletti, D., Keeler, B., Locatelli, B., Loft, L., Schröter, B., Schröter, M. & Winkler, K. J., 01.03.2023, In: Ambio. 52, 3, p. 477-488 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Linking Tourism and Conservation on Privately Owned Natural Areas: A Systematic Review of English-Language Literature

    Müller, N., Rathgens, J., Fletcher, R. & Hilser, S., 01.03.2023, In: Society and Natural Resources. 36, 3, p. 306-325 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  6. Published

    Meat substitutes: Resource demands and environmental footprints

    Smetana, S., Ristic, D., Pleissner, D., Tuomisto, H. L., Parniakov, O. & Heinz, V., 01.03.2023, In: Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 190, 12 p., 106831.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  7. Published

    The traditional ecological knowledge conundrum

    Hartel, T., Fischer, J., Shumi, G. & Apollinaire, W., 01.03.2023, In: Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 38, 3, p. 211-214 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  8. Published

    Chronological and sedimentological investigations of the Late Pleistocene succession in Osterbylund (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)

    Thiel, C., Kenzler, M., Stephan, H.-J., Frechen, M., Urban, B. & Sierralta, M., 06.03.2023, In: E&G Quaternary Science Journal. 72, 1, p. 57-72 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Sustainable development through aesthetic expertise? Results and reflection of an experimental case study on arts-science policy intervention.

    Heinrichs, H. & Hoernemann, D., 06.03.2023, In: Visions for Sustainability. 19, p. 125-151 27 p., 7311.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  10. Published

    Governing landscapes: An agenda for the assessment of grasslands and savannahs

    Eufemia, L., Wawrzynowicz, I., Bonatti, M., Partelow, S., Fischer, J. & Sieber, S., 09.03.2023, In: Frontiers in Sustainable Resource Management. 2, 7 p., 1134393.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  11. Published

    Be(coming) an Ambassador of Transformative Change from the Inside Out

    Konrad, T., 11.03.2023, Educating the Sustainability Leaders of the Future. Filho, W. L., Salvia, A. L., Pallant, E., Choate, B. & Pearce, K. (eds.). Cham: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland, p. 75-93 19 p. (World Sustainability Series).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

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Researchers

  1. Renée Ridgway

Publications

  1. National Cultural Values, Firm’s Cultural Orientation, Innovation and Performance: Testing Cultural Universals and Specific Contingencies Across Five Countries.
  2. Birds, birds, birds
  3. Einleitung
  4. Verwaltungsmodernisierung in Niedersachsen
  5. Kommunale Abwasserbehandlung - Antibiotika in der Umwelt
  6. Diversity, threats and conservation of European wood-pastures
  7. Handels- und steuerbilanzielle Qualifikation des derivativen Geschäfts- oder Firmenwerts
  8. Zum Entwurf einer EU-Richtlinie zur Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDD)
  9. Nachvertragliche grenzüberschreitende Wettbewerbsverbote
  10. The Politics of Embarrassment
  11. Les charges fiscales dans le cadre de l'impot sur le revenu en allemagne
  12. Ist die empirische Makroökonomik eine wissenschaftliche Illusion?
  13. Konfliktbelastungen im Amateurfußball
  14. Les villes artificielles comme espaces de formation de l’ordre politique
  15. Menschenrechtspädagogik - eine Arbeitstagung
  16. Mental representation of global environmental risks
  17. Smart homes and the control of indoor air quality
  18. Das neue Vollstreckungshilferecht im Bereich der freiheitsentziehenden Sanktionen innerhalb der EU
  19. Trumps Klimapolitik
  20. The role of multi-functionality in social preferences toward semi-arid rural landscapes
  21. Temporäre Nutzungen urbaner Brachflächen
  22. History of the Collection
  23. Habitat preferences of the Levant Green Lizard, Lacerta media israelica (Peters, 1964)
  24. I’m so sorry
  25. Bildung - Studium - Praxis
  26. Leuphana Sommerakademie
  27. Die Rettung des Ontologischen durch das Ontische?
  28. Internationale Arbeitsteilung und intersektorale Verknüpfung im Spektrum von Markt und Hierarchie
  29. Globalisation Gangnam-style
  30. Nicht nur Theologen schreiben Bücher über die Sintflut
  31. A CULTure of entrepreneurship education
  32. Forschungsförderung unter dem Aspekt transdisziplinärer Integrationsaufgaben
  33. Stakeholder Governance
  34. Die romantische »Theorie des Romans«
  35. Prison Vocational Education and Policy in the United States:
  36. Success among self-initiated versus assigned expatriates