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

    What goes around, comes around? Access and allocation problems in Global North-South waste trade

    Cotta, B., 01.06.2020, In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics. 20, 2, p. 255-269 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    What factors enable social-ecological transformative potential? The role of learning practices, empowerment, and networking

    Tuckey, A. J., Harmáčková, Z. V., Peterson, G. D., Norström, A. V., Moore, M.-L., Olsson, P., Lam, D. & Jimenez-Aceituno, A., 2023, In: Ecology and Society. 28, 2, 20 p., 27.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    What explains the performance of participatory governance?

    Jager, N. W. & Newig, J., 09.08.2024, Pathways to Positive Public Administration: An International Perspective. Lucas, P., Nabatchi, T., O'Flynn, J. & Hart, P. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 165-186 22 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

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    What enables metals ‘being’ ‘responsible’? An exploratory study on the enabling of organizational identity claims through a new sustainability standard

    Imbrogiano, J.-P., Steiner, B., Junior, R. M. & Sturman, K., 01.06.2023, In: Resources Policy. 83, p. 1-10 10 p., 103619.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    What drives social entrepreneurial appraisal among hearing-impaired individuals?

    Jasniak, M., Ermakova, T., Baierl, R. & Halberstadt, J., 2018, In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing. 10, 2, p. 236-255 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    What determines PCB concentrations in soils in rural and urban areas? Insights from a multi-media fate model for Switzerland as a case study

    Glüge, J., Bogdal, C., Scheringer, M. & Hungerbühler, K., 15.04.2016, In: The Science of The Total Environment. 550, p. 1152-1162 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    What can conservation strategies learn from the ecosystem services approach? Insights from ecosystem assessments in two Spanish protected areas

    García-Llorente, M., Harrison, P. A., Berry, P., Palomo, I., Gómez-Baggethun, E., Iniesta-Arandia, I., Montes, C., García Del Amo, D. & Martín-López, B., 01.06.2018, In: Biodiversity and Conservation. 27, 7, p. 1575-1597 23 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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Publications

  1. In terms of desire: Mary Parker Follett und der Diskurs der Organisationstheorie
  2. August, Vincent: Technologisches Regieren. Der Aufstieg des Netzwerk-Denkens in der Krise der Moderne. Foucault, Luhmann und die Kybernetik, 480 S., transcript, Bielefeld 2021.
  3. Rezension zu Säcker, Die Einordnung der Verbandsklage in das System des Privatrechts
  4. Gesundheitsförderung in und mit Schulen
  5. Zur empirischen Beforschung des mBooks Belgien
  6. Editoral
  7. § 54 Sammler, Beförderer, Händler und Makler von gefährlichen Abfällen
  8. Lexikon des Steuerrechts
  9. A Theological Journey into Narnia.
  10. Die Collage als Spottidiom
  11. Kommentierung von Art. 117 AEUV: Behandlung geplanter wettbewerbsverzerrender Vorschriften
  12. Sustainability communication in tourism – A literature review
  13. Pseudowissenschaft: Konzeptionen von Nichtwissenschaftlichkeit in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte
  14. Der heiße Begriff des Opfers
  15. Virtuelle Organisationen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung kultureller Barrieren
  16. Santner, Eric. My own private Germany. Daniel Paul Schreber's secret history of modernity. Princeton UP, 1996, 214 pp.
  17. Strategisches Modellieren durch heuristische Lösungsbeispiele :
  18. Exports, Imports and Profitability: First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises
  19. Stranger Things II (2017)
  20. Expert Workshop “The Role of International Investment Law in Armed Conflicts, Disputed Territories, and ‘Frozen’ Conflicts”
  21. Price Gouging at the Pump? The Lerner Index and the German Fuel Market
  22. Grundinformation Eschatologie. Systematische Theologie aus der Perspektive der Hoffnung
  23. ‚Infra-Politik‘ der Willkommensgesellschaft
  24. Monopsonistic Labour Markets and the Gender Pay Gap
  25. The Digital Revolution as Counter-Revolution
  26. § 8 Bodenschutz und Altlastenrecht
  27. Das Ganze: von ästhetischer Vorstellung zur existenziellen Realität