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. 1998
  2. Published

    Changing the Rules: Business-NGO Partnership and Structuration Theory

    Schneidewind, U. & Petersen, H., 1998, In: Greener Management International. 24, Winter, p. 105-114 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Communal environmental protection and conservation: A continuing education concept for environmental engineering in Germany.

    Adomßent, M. & Lütkemöller, D., 1998, Environmental engineering: international perspectives. Leal, W. F. (ed.). Frankfurt am Main [u.a.]: Peter Lang Verlag, p. 111-122 12 p. (Umweltbildung, Umweltkommunikation und Nachhaltigkeit ; vol. 3).

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

  4. Published

    Der Diplom Studiengang Wirtschaftsrecht, Stand und Perspektiven

    Schomerus, T. (Editor), Degenhart, H. (Editor) & Preißer, M. (Editor), 1998, Lüneburg: Fachhochschule Nordostniedersachsen. 125 p. (Schriftenreihe des Fachbereichs Wirtschaftsrecht; vol. 1)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

  5. Published

    Eco-Efficiency by Eco-Controlling: On the Implementation of EMAS and ISO 14001

    Schaltegger, S. & Sturm, A., 1998, Zürich: vdf Hochschulverlag an der ETH Zürich. 163 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  6. Published

    Economics Today: Konsens und Kontroverse in der modernen Ökonomie

    Brunetti, A. (Editor), Kugler, P. (Editor), Schaltegger, S. (Editor) & Weder, B. (Editor), 1998, Zürich: Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 256 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  7. Published

    Effects of lead and cadmium uptake on the metabolic rate of the woodlouse Porcellio scaber (crustacea, isopoda: Oniscidea)

    Coenen-Stass, D., 1998, In: Israel Journal of Zoology. 44, 3-4, p. 439-444 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published
  9. Published

    Umweltökonomik und politische Ökonomie des Umweltschutzes: Ökonomik zwischen Ökologie und Ökopolitik

    Schaltegger, S., 1998, Economics Today: Konsens und Kontroverse in der modernen Ökonomie. Brunetti, A., Peter, K., Schaltegger, S. & Weder, B. (eds.). Zürich: Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, p. 157-176

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

  10. Published

    Wasserversorgung

    Damrath, H. & Cord-Landwehr, K., 1998, Stuttgart: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag. 330 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  11. 1997
  12. Published

    Information Costs, Quality of Information and Stakeholder Involvement - The Necessity of International Standards of Ecological Accounting

    Schaltegger, S., 01.11.1997, In: Eco-Management and Auditing. 4, November, p. 87-97

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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Researchers

  1. Riegel Bettina

Publications

  1. Ausgewählte Entwicklungen und Konfliktlinien in der Grounded Theory
  2. Die Bedeutung des Stakeholderdialogs für die Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation von Unternehmen
  3. Skandinavische Weihnachtsgeschichten
  4. Bildungskapital und berufliche Position
  5. Beiträge zu Dilherrs Emblematischer Hand- und Reisepostille, Werke und Korrespondenz, Bd. 7, 2: Apparate und Kommentare
  6. Biodiversität im unternehmerischen Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement
  7. The Motivations of Book Publishers in Germany and Australia
  8. Die Bedeutung von Anspruchsgruppen bei Nachfolgeexistenzgründungen
  9. Außervertragliche Haftung der EG, legislatives Unrecht
  10. Cooperation and Its Evolution. Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology. Edited by Kim Sterelny, Richard Joyce, Brett Calcott, and Ben Fraser. A Bradford Book. Cambridge (Massachusetts): MIT Press.
  11. Das Tier in der Betrachtungsweise der Philosophischen Anthropologie
  12. Generation Facebook
  13. Sustainable-Corporate-Governance-Regulierungen
  14. Die Lebewesen und ihre Medien
  15. Karl May und die Literaturwissenschaft: ein Thema für Außenseiter?
  16. Die Schokoladenseite des Tourismus
  17. Das Staatsverständnis von Nicos Poulantzas
  18. Welche Planung braucht eine nachhaltige Entwicklung ? - Ein Blick zurück nach vorn
  19. Ferntourismus wohin?
  20. Vergütungsformen und Bestandteile
  21. Genderintegrierte Hochschuldidaktik
  22. Das Leuphana College und seine Bildungsidee
  23. Communicating Sustainable Consumption
  24. Business Model Experimentation for Circularity: Driving sustainability in a large international clothing retailer
  25. Von Jesus Christus reden im Religionsunterricht
  26. Konzeption und Praxis des Nachhaltigkeitscontrollings: Ansatzpunkte in großen deutschen Unternehmen
  27. Produktion und Gebrauch
  28. Sprachliche Ausdrucksfähigkeit in Mathematik – eine Ratingskala zur Messung der schriftsprachlichen Kompetenzen von Dritt- und Viertklässlern