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

    Assessing collaboration, knowledge exchange, and stakeholder agency in coastal governance to enhance climate resilience

    Rölfer, L., Celliers, L., Fernandes, M., Rivers, N., Snow, B. & Abson, D. J., 01.03.2024, In: Regional Environmental Change. 24, 1, 15 p., 6.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Organisationen hacken: Einfallstore in eine nachhaltige Arbeitswelt

    Hochmann, L. (Editor) & Möller, S. (Editor), 01.02.2024, München: Oekom Verlag. 418 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  3. Published

    Safe-and-sustainable-by-design: State of the art approaches and lessons learned from value chain perspectives

    Apel, C., Kümmerer, K., Sudheshwar, A., Nowack, B., Som, C., Colin, C., Walter, L., Breukelaar, J., Meeus, M., Ildefonso, B., Petrovykh, D., Elyahmadi, C., Huttunen-Saarivirta, E., Dierckx, A., Devic, A. C., Valsami-Jones, E., Brennan, M., Rocca, C., Scheper, J., Strömberg, E. & Soeteman-Hernández, L. G., 01.02.2024, In: Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry. 45, 16 p., 100876.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  4. Published

    House price expectations

    Gohl, N., Haan, P., Michelsen, C. & Weinhardt, F., 01.02.2024, In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 218, p. 379-398 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Governing anthropogenic assets for nature’s contributions to people in forests: a policy document analysis

    Isaac, R., Hofmann, J., Koegst, J., Schleyer, C. & Martín-López, B., 01.02.2024, In: Environmental Science & Policy. 152, 20 p., 103657.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Mother-infant social gaze dynamics relate to infant brain activity and word segmentation

    Vanoncini, M., Hoehl, S., Elsner, B., Wallot, S., Boll-Avetisyan, N. & Kayhan, E., 01.02.2024, In: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 65, 8 p., 101331.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  7. Published

    In the Eye of the Beholder: Stakeholder Perceived Value in Sustainable Business Models

    Norris, S., 01.02.2024, In: Long Range Planning. 57, 1, 14 p., 102406.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Designing greener active pharmaceutical ingredients: Insights from pharmaceutical industry into drug discovery and development

    Puhlmann, N., Vidaurre, R. & Kümmerer, K., 01.01.2024, In: European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 192, 13 p., 106614.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Atempause: Achtsamkeit in der Grundschule üben

    Salisch, M. (Editor), Hondrich, F. (Editor) & Voltmer, K. (Editor), 01.06.2024, Münster: Waxmann Verlag. 208 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  10. Published

    Expanding the pie or spoiling the cake? How the number of negotiation issues affects integrative bargaining

    Warsitzka, M., Zhang, H., Beersma, B., Freund, P. A. & Trötschel, R., 01.08.2024, In: Journal of Applied Psychology. 109, 8, p. 1224-1249 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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  2. Art. 229 a EGV (Entscheidung über gewerblichen Rechtsschutz) (Nizza-Fassung)
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  4. Von der Gegenwartskunst lernen
  5. Manufactured familarity
  6. PoNa als inter- und transdisziplinäres Experiment in der Sozial-ökologischen Forschung
  7. Permeable reactive barriers for manufactured gas plants and related sites
  8. Project-Mentoring
  9. Capital structure decisions of globally-listed shipping companies
  10. Schöner leben
  11. Artikel 46 EUV [Ständige Strukturierte Zusammenarbeit]
  12. Demokratische Repräsentationsprinzipien in Mittelosteuropa
  13. Voluntary Corporate Health Promotion as Strategic Function of HRM
  14. Ein Blick in die Werkstatt
  15. Alltag in den Medien - Medien im Alltag
  16. "Mehr Netflix als Schulenglisch" Sprachliche Ressourcen junger Deutschchilenen
  17. Book Review: Organizations: A Systems Approach, S. Kühl. Farnham: Gower Publishing, 2013. 195 pp. ISBN 9781472413413.
  18. Emissions of polychlorinated biphenyls in Switzerland
  19. Disentangling the practice of landscape approaches
  20. Artikel 28 AEUV [Zollunion]
  21. Management Roles and Sustainability Information
  22. „Sweet little lies“
  23. Woody plant species diversity as a predictor of ecosystem services in a social–ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia
  24. Der "fachdidaktische Code" der Lebenswelt- und/oder (?) Situationsorientierung in der fachdidaktischen Diskussion der sozialwissenschaftlichen Unterrichtsfächer sowie des Lernfeldkonzepts
  25. Effect of rotational speed and double-sided welding in friction stir–welded dissimilar joints of aluminum alloy and steel
  26. § 352 Aufrechnung nach Nichterfüllung
  27. Regional Institutional Design
  28. Let`s put the person back into entrepreneurship research
  29. Collective Litigation in German Civil Procedure
  30. Gamifikation im Tourismus
  31. Materialbereitstellung in der Montage
  32. How Citizen Entrepreneurship Works
  33. Organisation fur wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (OECD)
  34. Government popularity and the economy
  35. Education and Training
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