School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Research School
- Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)
- Institute of Ecology
- Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- Institute of Sustainability Governance
- Institute of Sustainability Material Flows and Circularity
- Institute of Sustainability Psychology
- Institute of Sustainable Chemistry
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)
- Sustainability Education and Transdisciplinary Research Institute
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.
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Mindfulness as self-confirmation? An exploratory intervention study on potentials and limitations of mindfulness-based interventions in the context of environmental and sustainability education
Frank, P., Fischer, D., Stanszus, L., Grossman, P. & Schrader, U., 02.11.2021, In: Journal of Environmental Education. 52, 6, p. 417-444 28 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Mindfulness As/Is Care: Biopolitics, Narrative Empathy, and Technoscientific Practices
Stingl, A. I. & Weiss, S. M., 21.03.2014, The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness. Le, A., Ngnoumen, C. T. & Langer, E. J. (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Vol. 1-2. p. 608-629 22 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Mindfulness and Sustainable Consumption: A Systematic Literature Review of Research Approaches and Findings
Fischer, D., Stanszus, L., Geiger, S., Grossman, P. & Schrader, U., 20.09.2017, In: Journal of Cleaner Production. 162, p. 544-558 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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Mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral strategies for psychological detachment: Comparing effectiveness and mechanisms of change
Reis, D., Hart, A., Krautter, K., Prestele, E., Lehr, D. & Friese, M., 01.08.2024, In: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. 29, 4, p. 258-279 22 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Migration and stress during reproduction govern telomere dynamics in a seabird
Schultner, J., Moe, B., Chastel, O., Bech, C. & Kitaysky, A. S., 01.01.2014, In: Biology Letters. 10, 1, 4 p., 20130889.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Middle Pleistocene lake shore environments and archaeological sites of Schöningen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Urban, B., van Kolfschoten, T. & Serangeli, J., 2014, Abstracts: 2014 Burgos 1-7- Sept. UISPP, Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques; XVII World UISPP Congress. Universidad de Burgos, Vol. 17. p. 861-862 2 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Published abstract in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Middle Pleistocene interglacial peat deposits from Northern Germany investigated by 230Th/U and palynology: Case studies from Wedel and Schöningen
Sierralta, M., Urban, B., Linke, G. & Frechen, M., 01.11.2017, In: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften. 168 , 3, p. 373 - 387 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Microwave-assisted extraction and matrix solid-phase dispersion as green analytical chemistry sample preparation techniques for the valorisation of mango processing waste
Segatto, M. L., Zanotti, K. & Zuin, V. G., 01.01.2021, In: Current Research in Chemical Biology. 1, 8 p., 100007.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Micro-scale Thermodynamic and Kinetic Analysis of a Calcium Chloride Methanol System for Process Cooling
Korhammer, K., Neumann, K., Opel, O. & Ruck, W. K. L., 01.05.2017, In: Energy Procedia. 105, p. 4363-4369 7 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Microsatellites and allozymes as the genetic memory of habitat fragmentation and defragmentation in populations of the ground beetle Carabus auronitens (Col., Carabidae)
Drees, C., Matern, A., Rasplus, J.-Y., Terlutter, H., Aßmann, T. & Weber, F., 01.10.2008, In: Journal of Biogeography. 35, 10, p. 1937-1949 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review