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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Is the reverse J-shaped diameter distribution universally applicable in European virgin beech forests?
Westphal, C., Trerner, N., von Oheimb, G., Hansen, J., von Gadow, K. & Hardtle, W., 01.03.2006, In: Forest Ecology and Management. 223, 1-3, p. 75-83 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Berichterstattung im Lichte der Herausforderungen unternehmerischer Nachhaltigkeit
Schaltegger, S. & Herzig, C., 2008, Internetbasierte Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung: maßgeschneiderte Stakeholder-Kommunikation mit IT . Isenmann, R., Marx Gömez, J. & Amelung, M. (eds.). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 51-64 14 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Versuche nachhaltiger Regionalentwicklung: Blockaden und Perspektiven in der Region Dessau-Wittenberg-Bitterfeld
Mölders, T. & Scurrell, B., 2005, Lüneburg: Universität Lüneburg, 33 p. (Werkstattberichte Umweltstrategien; vol. 2).Research output: Working paper › Working papers
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Environmental communication: new challenges and new perspectives
Barth, M., 2008, Communication policies and culture in Europe: Abstracts. Barcelona: European Communication Research and Education Association - ECREA, p. 496 1 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Published abstract in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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"Es wird eng!": LandwirtInnen zwischen Aufbruch, Anpassung und Resignation
Mölders, T., 2007, Agrarpolitik im 21. Jahrhundert: Wahrnehmungen, Konflikte, Verständigungsbedarf. Feindt, P. H. & Lange, J. (eds.). Evangelische Akademie Loccum, p. 159-169 11 p. (Loccumer Protokolle; vol. 30, no. 07).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Ecopreneurship fördern: nachhaltige Entwicklung als Prozess der Unternehmensentwicklung
Petersen, H. & Schaltegger, S., 01.03.2002, In: Ökologisches Wirtschaften. 17, 1, p. 27-28 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Wi(e)der die Armut? Positionen zu den Milleniumszielen der Vereinten Nationen
Kuhn, K. (Editor) & Rieckmann, M. (Editor), 2006, Frankfurt am Main: VAS Verlag für Akademische Schriften. 219 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Das Naturschutzgebiet "Höltigbaum" und seine Vegetation: halboffene Weidelandschaften
Härdtle, W. & Oheimb, G., 2006, Flora und Vegetation im nordöstlichen Niedersachsen: Sonderheft aus Anlass der 56. Jahrestagung der Floristisch-soziologischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft vom 09. bis 12. Juni 2006 in Lüneburg. Härdtle, W., Horst, K. & Prüter, J. (eds.). Lüneburg: Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein für das Fürstentum Lüneburg von 1851 e.V., p. 167-172 6 p. (JAHRBUCH DES NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN VEREINS FÜR DAS FÜRSTENTUM LÜNEBURG VON 1851 E.V.; vol. Sonderheft, no. 1/2006).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis of estrogenic compounds in coastal surface water of the Baltic Sea
Beck, I., Bruhn, R., Gandrass, J. & Ruck, W., 07.10.2005, In: Journal of Chromatography A. 1090, 1-2, p. 98-106 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Low species diversity in beech forest: a myth
Aßmann, T., Drees, C., Schröder, E. & Ssymank, A., 2008, Beech Forests - a German contribution to the global forest biodiversity. Knapp, H. D. (ed.). Bonn: Bundesamt für Naturschutz, p. 25-32 8 p. (BfN-Skripten / Bundesamt für Naturschutz ; vol. 233).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research