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

    Stiftungen hacken: Ein kleines Schnellboot, gemeinnützig und unbequem

    Heller, P. & Möller, S., 01.02.2024, Organisationen hacken: Einfallstore in eine nachhaltige Arbeitswelt. Hochmann, L. & Möller, S. (eds.). München: Oekom Verlag, p. 239-252 14 p.

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

  2. Published

    Handwerk hacken: Mit neuen Arbeitszeiten alte Zöpfe abschneiden

    Hansen, J. & Möller, S., 01.02.2024, Organisationen hacken: Einfallstore in eine nachhaltige Arbeitswelt. Hochmann, L. & Möller, S. (eds.). München: Oekom Verlag, p. 213-221 9 p.

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

  3. Published

    Fußballvereine hacken: Mit Werteorientierung und Nachhaltigkeit gierige Monster ins Abseits stellen

    Möller, S. & Rager, E., 01.02.2024, Organisationen hacken: Einfallstore in eine nachhaltige Arbeitswelt. Hochmann, L. & Möller, S. (eds.). München: Oekom Verlag, p. 167-182 16 p.

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

  4. Published

    Arbeitsräume hacken: Persönlichen Transformationen gemeinsam Raum geben

    Konrad, T. & Möller, S., 01.02.2024, Organisationen hacken: Einfallstore in eine nachhaltige Arbeitswelt. Hochmann, L. & Möller, S. (eds.). München: Oekom Verlag, p. 145-163 19 p.

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

  5. Published

    Gründen hacken: Mit kooperativer Gegenkultur und Diversität nachhaltigen Impact ermöglichen

    Krome, C. & Möller, S., 01.02.2024, Organisationen hacken: Einfallstore in eine nachhaltige Arbeitswelt. Hochmann, L. & Möller, S. (eds.). München: Oekom Verlag, p. 89-105 17 p.

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

  6. Published

    Organisationsberatung hacken: Mit Neugier und Zutrauen Zukünfte gestalten

    Kısaoğlu, D. & Möller, S., 01.02.2024, Organisationen hacken: Einfallstore in eine nachhaltige Arbeitswelt. Hochmann, L. & Möller, S. (eds.). München: Oekom Verlag, p. 27-39 13 p.

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

  7. Published

    Einleitung: Warum hacken?

    Hochmann, L. & Möller, S., 01.02.2024, Organisationen hacken: Einfallstore in eine nachhaltige Arbeitswelt. Hochmann, L. & Möller, S. (eds.). München: Oekom Verlag, p. 11-23 13 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  8. Published

    Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals: a scrutiny of urban strategies in the 100 Resilient Cities initiative

    Kochskämper, E., Glass, L.-M., Haupt, W., Malekpour, S. & Grainger-Brown, J., 04.2025, In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 68, 7, p. 1691-1717 27 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Appraising biocultural approaches to sustainability in the scientific literature in Spanish

    Díaz-Reviriego, I., Hanspach, J., Torralba, M., Ortiz-Przychodzka, S., Frias, C. B., Burke, L., García-Martín, M. & Oteros-Rozas, E., 04.2024, In: Ambio. 53, 4, p. 499-516 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  10. Published

    Long-term drought triggers severe declines in carabid beetles in a temperate forest

    Weiss, F., von Wehrden, H. & Linde, A., 04.2024, In: Ecography. 2024, 4, 17 p., e07020.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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  2. Openness in Cross-Cultural Work Settings
  3. Die programmatische Orientierung des Museums
  4. Asia in the edges: a narrative account of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School in Bangalore
  5. Akustisches Kapital
  6. Step on it! How Positive Affective States Influence Young Drivers’ Driving Behaviors
  7. Postural control in Parkinson´s disease
  8. Adaptive survival mechanisms and growth limitations of small-stature herb species across a plant diversity gradient
  9. Soziale Unterschiede in der Gesundheitskompetenz von Studierenden
  10. The social–ecological ladder of restoration ambition
  11. An Bildern denken
  12. Ist die Seele noch zu retten?
  13. Erfolgskriterien ökologieorientierten Managements
  14. REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR SATELLITES AND THE REALITY OF LARGE CONSTELLATIONS
  15. Führung von Repatriates zur Unterstützung des Wissenstransferprozesses
  16. Seeanemonenmodelle der Werkstatt Blaschka
  17. Wirksamkeit Internet- und Mobil-basierter Behandlung komorbider Depression bei Diabetes.
  18. Kindertheologie und schulische Alltagspraxis
  19. „Self-Tracking“ als medienpädagogische Herausforderung
  20. Konzept zur Qualifizierung für Bildungsarbeit im Kontext von Zivilcourage und Gewaltprävention
  21. Lebensqualitätsmess-instrumente in der Reha-bilitation Unfallverletzter
  22. A synthesis for everyone: 5 years of work in Romania
  23. Building ethical awareness to strengthen co-production for transformation
  24. Organizational identity and firm growth
  25. SpurenLesen 2: Religionsbuch für die 7./8. Klasse, Lehrerband
  26. Against Water
  27. Entrepreneurial teams vs management teams
  28. Gender und Diversity in der Lehre – ein Sensibilisierungsangebot
  29. The effects of psychotherapies for major depression in adults on remission, recovery and improvement
  30. Das Bild der Anderen erforschen
  31. (Z)-3,7-Bis(phenylsulfonyl)pentacyclo[5.1.0.02,4.03,5.06,8]octan, ein Octabisvalen-Derivat.
  32. Fictions, myths, realities. Centres, peripheries and art
  33. The Role of Extensive Margins of Exports in The Great Export Recovery in Germany, 2009/2010