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

    Natures running wild: a social-ecological perspective on wilderness

    Hofmeister, S., 01.2009, In: Nature and Culture. 4, 3, p. 293-315 23 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Nachhaltigkeit und Hochschulbildung: die Leuphana-Universität Lüneburg

    Barth, M., 2008, In: Jahrbuch Ökologie . 2008, p. 192-198 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  3. Published

    Eco-Efficiency in Corporate Budgeting

    Burritt, R. & Schaltegger, S., 01.05.2001, In: Environmental Management and Health. 12, 2, p. 158-174 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Michelsen, G. & Overwien, B., 2008, Grundbegriffe Ganztagsbildung: Das Handbuch. Coelen, T. & Otto, H.-U. (eds.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 299-307 9 p.

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

  5. Published

    Management von Ökoeffizienz im Lichte der Unternehmensstrategie

    Schaltegger, S., 2005, Materialeffizienz: Potenziale bewerten, Innovationen fördern, Beschäftigung sichern. Liedtke, C. & Busch, T. (eds.). München: Oekom Verlag, p. 64-72 9 p.

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

  6. Published

    The Relationship Between the Environmental and Economic Performance of Firms: An Empirical Analysis of the European Paper Industry

    Wagner, M., Phu, N. V., Azomahou, T. & Wehrmeyer, W., 01.01.2002, In: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. 9, 3, p. 133-146 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Die Kommunikation über Nachhaltigkeit braucht mehr Professionalität

    Michelsen, G. & Godemann, J., 2002, Umweltkommunikation - vom Wissen zum Handeln: 7. Internationale Sommerakademie St. Marienthal . Brickwedde, F. & Peters, U. (eds.). Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 329-337 9 p. (Initiativen zum Umweltschutz; vol. 44).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  8. Published

    Hochschulen und Nachhaltigkeit: neue Herausforderungen für Lehren, Lernen und Forschen

    Michelsen, G., 2008, Einstieg in Nachhaltige Entwicklung. Amelung, N. (ed.). Frankfurt am Main [u.a.]: Peter Lang Verlag, p. 135-151 17 p.

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

  9. Published

    Hochschule neu denken: Neuorientierung im Horizont der Nachhaltigkeit ; ein Memorandum

    Adomßent, M., 2004, Frankfurt am Main: VAS Verlag für Akademische Schriften. 44 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  10. Published

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Publications

  1. Picturing the World for Children: Early Nineteenth-Century Images of Foreign Nations
  2. Freundschaft als Resilienzfaktor
  3. Kulturelle Diversität in der kuratorischen Praxis: Politik(en) globaler Künste
  4. International trends in public perceptions of climate change over the past quarter century
  5. Demirovic, Alex, Julia Dück, Florian Becker u. Pauline Bader (Hg.), VielfachKrise im finanzmarktdominierten Kapitalismus, 2011
  6. Variability in leaf traits reveals contrasting strategies between forest and grassland woody communities across southern Brazil
  7. Managerial insights
  8. Über Hinterbühnen und Fauxpas
  9. Connecting Selves with Kitkitdizze, the Bio-Region, and the World at Large
  10. Literarische Intellektualität in der Mediengesellschaft
  11. Musik Computer Tanz
  12. Die Wertschöpfungskette der Lebensmittelindustrie als Resonanzraum
  13. Klimawandel und Gesellschaft
  14. Selbstthematisierungen (in) der Kommunikationsgesellschaft
  15. Unfamiliar fuel
  16. Brominated flame retardants and dechloranes in eels from German Rivers
  17. Die Hamburger Verfassung im europäischen Kontext
  18. Conservation management of eastern Australian farmland birds in relation to landscape gradients
  19. Entwicklung eines integrativen Logistikmodells für die unternehmensinterne Lieferkette
  20. Blitzlicht
  21. Appointing female CEOs in risky and precarious firm circumstances.
  22. Sprachstandsmessung
  23. Социальная работа на пути к европейской науке и профессии
  24. KESS 4 - Lehr- und Lernbedingungen in Hamburger Grundschulen.
  25. Subgruppenanalysen der Schreibfähigkeiten anhand der Ergebnisse der DESI-Studie
  26. Wissen(schaft)sskepsis
  27. Strategisches Experimentieren im Naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht
  28. Partizipation, Kooperation und nachhaltige Entwicklung
  29. Setting the research agenda for measuring sustainability performance
  30. Distributionsdichte
  31. Not Just Riot Grrrls! Punk Rock Feminism in the Philippines
  32. Permeable reactive barriers for manufactured gas plants and related sites
  33. Women and the conservation of agroecosystems
  34. Komitees gegen Folter
  35. Biologische kampfstoffe
  36. Dehydration and Pelletisation of Agricultural Biomass by Extrusion