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. Published

    Fachliche Begleitung im Naturschutzgebiet: Forschung

    Härdtle, W., Keienburg, T. & Oheimb, G., 2013, Das Naturschutzgebiet Lüneburger Heide : Natur- und Kulturerbe von europäischem Rang: Teil 1. Kaiser, T. (ed.). Bispingen: Verein Naturschutzpark e.V., p. 405-412 8 p. (VNP-Schriften; vol. 4).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

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    Facilitating collaborative processes in transdisciplinary research using design prototyping

    Peukert, D., Lam, D. P. M., Horcea-Milcu, A. I. & Lang, D. J., 2020, In: Journal of Design Research. 18, 5-6, p. 294-326 33 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Facilitating regional energy transition strategies: Toward a typology of regions

    Lutz, L. M., Lang, D. J. & Wehrden, H., 01.09.2017, In: Sustainability. 9, 9, 17 p., 1560.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Facilitating stress prevention in micro and small-sized enterprises: protocol for a mixed method study to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation process of targeted web-based interventions

    Engels, M., Boß, L., Engels, J., Kuhlmann, R., Kuske, J., Lepper, S., Lesener, L., Pavlista, V., Diebig, M., Lunau, T., Ruhle, S. A., Zapkau, F. B., Angerer, P., Hoewner, J., Lehr, D., Schwens, C., Süß, S., Wulf, I. C. & Dragano, N., 12.2022, In: BMC Public Health. 22, 1, 13 p., 591.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Facilitative-competitive interactions in an Old-Growth Forest: The Importance of Large-Diameter Trees as Benefactors and Stimulators for Forest Community Assembly

    Fichtner, A., Forrester, D. I., Härdtle, W., Sturm, K. & Oheimb, G., 24.03.2015, In: PLoS ONE. 10, 3, 18 p., e0120335.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Facilitative effects of introduced Pacific oysters on native macroalgae are limited by a secondary invader, the seaweed Sargassum muticum

    Lang, A. C. & Buschbaum, C., 02.2010, In: Journal of Sea Research. 63, 2, p. 119-128 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Facing complexity through informed simplifications: a research agenda for aquatic exposure assessment of nanoparticles

    Praetorius, A., Arvidsson, R., Molander, S. & Scheringer, M., 01.01.2013, In: Environmental Sciences: Processes & Impacts. 15, 1, p. 161-168 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Facing the heat: A systematic literature review exploring the transferability of solutions to cope with urban heat waves

    Hintz, M. J., Lüderitz, C., Lang, D. J. & von Wehrden, H., 06.2018, In: Urban Climate. 24, p. 714-727 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Factors affecting fruit set in Aizoaceae species of the Succulent Karoo

    Pufal, G., Mayer, C., Porembski, S. & Juergens, N., 01.07.2008, In: Basic and Applied Ecology. 9, 4, p. 401-409 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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Activities

  1. Valorisation of food waste for sustainable production of chemicals, materials and fuels
  2. PIANC Deutschland (Externe Organisation)
  3. Annäherung an eine Soziologie der Entnetzung - Analognostalgie und Räumlichkeit
  4. Vortrag: Komik in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
  5. Warum handelt sie so? Der fundamentale Attributionsfehler in Korea, Japan, Deutschland und den USA
  6. Gruenes Wissen.NET: Ein Angebot der Wissenschaftskommunikation im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit und Globaler Wandel
  7. Hannah Arendts Begriff des Politischen als Unterrichtsleitbild der politischen Bildung?
  8. Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
  9. Von einer Krise zur nächsten: Können wir aus Corona für die Klimakrise lernen?
  10. 14. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie - FGSP 2013
  11. Photocatalytic degradation of Diclofenac observed transformation products and assessment of their toxicological impact
  12. Transformation - Kultur - Geschlecht 2017
  13. Konferenz des Netzwerks für Flüchtlingsforschung: Organisation und Moderation des Panels "Transnationale Familien im Fluchtkontext" - NWFF18
  14. From Where I Stand: Feminist Art/Writing. Subjectivities, Genealogies, and Critique
  15. Einführung in die Kunstwissenschaft als Kulturwissenschaft
  16. 2. NachwuchsforscherInnentagung des Zentrums für Sozialweltforschung und Methodenentwicklung - 2010
  17. Erfahrungen mit der Drittmitteleinwerbung
  18. Tagung der Sektion „Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft“ 2012
  19. Small Group Meeting of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology - EAWOP 2013
  20. Zwischen Groß- und Kleingruppenlogik: Social Franchising aus einer Hayekianischen Perspektive