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

    Planetary Integrity

    Kotzé, L. J., Kim, R. E., Burdon, P., du Toit, L., Glass, L.-M., Kashwan, P., Liverman, D., Montesano, F. S., Rantala, S., Sénit, C.-A., Treyer, S. & Calzadilla, P. V., 31.07.2022, The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals : Transforming Governance Through Global Goals?. Biermann, F., Hickmann, T. & Senit, C.-A. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 140-171 32 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  2. Published

    Application of modern coexistence theory to rare plant restoration provides early indication of restoration trajectories

    Aoyama, L., Shoemaker, L. G., Gilbert, B., Collinge, S. K., Faist, A. M., Shackelford, N., Temperton, V. M., Barabás, G., Larios, L., Ladouceur, E., Godoy, O., Bowler, C. & Hallett, L. M., 01.10.2022, In: Ecological Applications. 32, 7, 14 p., e2649.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Teacher Education for Sustainable Development: A Review of an Emerging Research Field

    Fischer, D., King, J., Rieckmann, M., Barth, M., Büssing, A., Hemmer, I. & Lindau-Bank, D., 01.11.2022, In: Journal of Teacher Education. 73, 5, p. 509-524 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  4. Published

    Sustainable Green Technologies: The Brazilian Indigenous University Student Experience

    Crioni, R., Cássia Sudan, D. & Gomes Zuin, V., 01.01.2022, Handbook of Best Practices in Sustainable Development at University Level . Filho, W. L. & Vasconcelos, C. R. P. D. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland, p. 469-494 26 p. (World Sustainability Series).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  5. Published

    Editorial

    Bäumler, J., Bungenberg, M., Krajewski, M., Rühl, G., Tams, C. J., Terhechte, J. P., Ziegler, A. R. & Binder, C., 2022, In: European Yearbook of International Economic Law. 12, p. v-ix 5 p.

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

  6. Published

    Forschendes Lernen in der angewandten Sozialpsychologie

    Schuster, C., 28.06.2022, Studentische Forschung im Praxissemester: Fallbeispiele aus der Lehrkräftebildung. Beckmann, T., Ehmke, T. & Besser, M. (eds.). Bad Heilbronn: Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, p. 209-213 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesEducation

  7. Published

    Germany’s Supply Chain Due Diligence Act: Is It Compatible with WTO Obligations?

    Bäumler, J., 2022, In: Zeitschrift fur Europarechtliche Studien. 25, 2, p. 265-286 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Interpersonal Physiological Synchrony Predicts Group Cohesion

    Tomashin, A., Gordon, I. & Wallot, S., 12.07.2022, In: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 16, 12 p., 903407.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Repurposing chemical waste: Sustainable chemistry for circularity beyond artificial intelligence

    Zuin, V. G. & Kümmerer, K., 21.07.2022, In: Cell. 185, 15, p. 2655-2656 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsComments / Debate / ReportsResearch

  10. Published

    The lipid composition of the in situ pellicle

    Reich, M., Hannig, C., Hannig, M., Kümmerer, K. & Kensche, A., 01.10.2022, In: Archives of Oral Biology. 142, 105493.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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Publications

  1. Corporate Sustainability Barometer 2010
  2. A battle for transportation routes in the Russian neighborhood
  3. Literary Trails, Urban Space and the Actualization of Heritage
  4. Empirische Methoden der Deutschdidaktik
  5. Whose Body?
  6. Regulating the sharing economy
  7. “I think they are irresponsible”: Teaching Sustainability with (Counter)Narratives in the EFL Classroom
  8. The Organization is a Repair Shop
  9. Analysis of the variety of education and outreach interventions in biodiversity conservation projects in Spain
  10. "Sustainability State” in the Making?
  11. AIDA, reif für das Museum?
  12. Umweltmanagement in deutschen Unternehmen
  13. Das schöne Spiel
  14. Marahrens, August (1875-1950)
  15. Polizeikultur und Polizeipraxis in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren
  16. The impact of national and international debate in the European Union on the moratorium on the release of GMO into the environment
  17. People incorrectly correcting other people: The pragmatics of (re-)corrections and their negotiation in a Facebook group
  18. Handball gemeinsam gestalten
  19. The effects of contemporaneous peer punishment on cooperation with the future
  20. Successful climate protection via rapid coal phaseout in Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia
  21. Urbane Konfliktzonen
  22. Conflicting demands of chemistry and inclusive teaching—a video‐based case study
  23. COVID-19-Related Health Literacy of School Leaders in Hong Kong
  24. Exports and productivity in Germany
  25. The Performance of Foreign Affiliates in German Manufacturing
  26. Chronic ecotoxic effects to Pseudomonas putida and Vibrio fischeri, and cytostatic and genotoxic effects to the hepatoma cell line (HepG2) of ofloxacin photo(cata)lytically treated solutions
  27. "The ear of imagination"