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

    The post-normal politics and science of wind power planning: Evidence from a Danish near-shore wind farm tender

    Johansen, K. & Upham, P., 01.07.2019, In: Energy Research and Social Science. 53, p. 182-193 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Stakeholder signalling and strategic niche management: The case of aviation biokerosene

    Koistinen, K., Upham, P. & Bögel, P. M., 10.07.2019, In: Journal of Cleaner Production. 225, p. 72-81 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    A novel telecoupling framework to assess social relations across spatial scales for ecosystem services research

    Martín-López, B., Felipe-Lucia, M. R., Bennett, E. M., Norström, A., Peterson, G., Plieninger, T., Hicks, C. C., Turkelboom, F., García-Llorente, M., Jacobs, S., Lavorel, S. & Locatelli, B., 01.07.2019, In: Journal of Environmental Management. 241, p. 251-263 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Wasser und nachhaltige Chemie: Wie kommen wir zu noch sauberem Wasser?

    Olsson, O. & Kümmerer, K., 2019, In: Vom Wasser. 117, 1, p. 5-8 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  5. Published

    Performance measurement in sustainable supply chain management: linking research and practice

    Beske-Janssen, P., Schaltegger, S. & Liedke, S., 2019, Handbook on the Sustainable Supply Chain. Sarkis, J. (ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 331-356 26 p. (Research handbooks in business and management series).

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

  6. Published

    Reversible formation of alcohol solvates and their potential use for heat storage

    Korhammer, K., Mihály, J., Bálint, S., Trif, L., Vass, Á., Tompos, A. & Tálas, E., 01.10.2019, In: Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. 138, 1, p. 11-33 23 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Author Correction: Biocultural approaches to pollinator conservation (Nature Sustainability, (2019), 2, 3, (214-222), 10.1038/s41893-019-0244-z)

    Hill, R., Nates-Parra, G., Quezada-Euán, J. J. G., Buchori, D., LeBuhn, G., Maués, M. M., Pert, P. L., Kwapong, P. K., Saeed, S., Breslow, S. J., da Cunha, M. C., Dicks, L. V., Galetto, L., Gikungu, M., Howlett, B. G., Imperatriz-Fonseca, V. L., Lyver, P. O. B., Martín-López, B., Oteros-Rozas, E., Potts, S. G. & Roué, M., 01.04.2019, In: Nature Sustainability. 2, 4, p. 348-348 1 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  8. Published

    Editorial overview: Selected papers from the 3rd Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conference 2018

    Kuemmerer, K. & Liu, Z., 02.2019, In: Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry. 15, Special Issue, p. A4-A5 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  9. Published

    Fast response of groundwater to heavy rainfall

    Wittenberg, H., Aksoy, H. & Miegel, K., 01.04.2019, In: Journal of Hydrology. 571, p. 837-842 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Just a small bunch of flowers: The botanical knowledge of students and the positive effects of courses in plant identification at German universities

    Buck, T., Bruchmann, I., Zumstein, P. & Drees, C., 13.03.2019, In: PeerJ. 7, 3, 23 p., e6581.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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  1. Trauer um Professor Dr. Hermann Schweppenhäuser
  2. Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms
  3. Water quality indices across Europe - a comparison of the good ecological status of five river basins
  4. Recuperation through Crisis Talk
  5. Emotionale Kompetenz entwickeln
  6. Translation
  7. The role of free will beliefs in social behavior:
  8. Cytotoxics in water
  9. Comparative Children's Literature
  10. Die Landung
  11. Social Entrepreneurs and Social Change
  12. Worlds Apart: Does Perceptual Congruence Between Leaders and Older Employees Regarding Age-Friendly Organizational Climate, Management, and Work Design Matter?
  13. Intersubjectivity and alterity in the works of Kant
  14. Estimation of human body concentrations of DDT from indoor residual spraying for malaria control
  15. Predictors of Principals' Engagement in School Health Promotion
  16. 8. Workshop Umweltinformatik zwischen Nachhaltigkeit und Wandel (UINW 2020)
  17. Kommunikation, Partizipation und digitale Medien
  18. The roots of female emancipation
  19. Zum Erwerb der CLIL-Fremdsprache durch Schülerinnen und Schüler mit Migrationshintergrund
  20. Residual stresses near the hot sprues of as-cast Mg-Zn alloys investigated by STRESS-SPEC neutron diffractometer
  21. Biografie
  22. Nonylphenol polyethoxylate degradation by means of electrocoagulation and electrochemical Fenton
  23. Dimensionierung von Fertigungslosgrößen
  24. Newspapers and the circulation of academic knowledge
  25. Shift work and work-family conflict: A systematic review
  26. Social movement theory and research on radicalisation
  27. UK public perceptions of shale gas hydraulic fracturing
  28. Action theory in clinical psychology