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

    Physico-chemical characteristics affect the spatial distribution of pesticide and transformation product loss to an agricultural brook

    Gassmann, M., Olsson, O., Stamm, C., Weiler, M. & Kümmerer, K., 01.11.2015, In: The Science of The Total Environment. 532, p. 733-743 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Photolytic transformation products and biological stability of the hydrological tracer Uranine

    Gutowski, L., Olsson, O., Lange, J. & Kümmerer, K., 15.11.2015, In: The Science of The Total Environment. 533, p. 446-453 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Photolysis of sulfamethoxypyridazine in various aqueous media: Aerobic biodegradation and photoproducts identification by LC-UV-MS/MS

    Khaleel, N. D. H., Mahmoud, W. M. M., Hadad, G. M., Abdel-Salam, R. A. & Kümmerer, K., 2012, In: Chemicke Listy. 106, S4, p. 904 1 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference abstract in journalResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Photolysis of sulfamethoxypyridazine in various aqueous media: Aerobic biodegradation and identification of photoproducts by LC-UV-MS/MS

    Khaleel, N. D. H., Mahmoud, W. M. M., Hadad, G. M., Abdel-Salam, R. A. & Kümmerer, K., 15.01.2013, In: Journal of Hazardous Materials. 244-245, p. 654-661 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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  6. Published

    Photodegradation, Photocatalytic and Aerobic Biodegradation of Sulfisomidine and Identification of Transformation Products By LC–UV-MS/MS

    Sleman, F., Mahmoud, W. M. M., Schubert, R. & Kümmerer, K., 11.2012, In: Clean - Soil, Air, Water. 40, 11, p. 1244-1249 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Photodegradation of the antineoplastic cyclophosphamide: A comparative study of the efficiencies of UV/H2O2, UV/Fe(2+)/H2O2 and UV/TiO2 processes

    Lutterbeck, C. A., Machado, E. L. & Kümmerer, K., 01.02.2015, In: Chemosphere. 120, p. 538-546 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Photodegradation of thalidomide: Identification of transformation products by LC-UV-FL-MS/MS, assessment of biodegradability, cytotoxicity and mutagenicity.

    Mahmoud, W. M. M., Toolaram, A. P., Schneider, M. & Kümmerer, K., 2012, 4th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress: Abstract book. Association of Czech Chemical Societies, Vol. 106. p. 650 1 p. (Chemické listy; vol. 106, no. S4).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksPublished abstract in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Photodegradation of micropollutants using V-UV/UV-C processes: Triclosan as a model compound

    Alfiya, Y., Friedler, E., Westphal, J., Olsson, O. & Dubowski, Y., 01.12.2017, In: The Science of The Total Environment. 601-602, p. 397-404 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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  10. Diesseits des sozialpädagogischen Blicks
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  17. Zur Institutionalisierung von Kindheit in Öffentlichkeit und Privatheit
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