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. 2021
  2. Published

    Complexity in Water Management and Governance

    Kirschke, S. & Newig, J., 12.06.2021, Handbook of Water Resources Management: Discourses, Concepts and Examples. Bogardi, J. J., Gupta, J., Nandalal, K. D. W., Salamé, L., van Nooijen, R. R. P., Kumar, N., Tingsanchali, T., Bhaduri, A. & Kolechkina, A. G. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature, p. 801-810 10 p.

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

  3. Published

    Boundary speak in sustainability studies: Computational reading of a transversal field

    Herberg, J., Schmitz, S., Stasiak, D. & Schmieg, G., 10.06.2021, In: Science and Public Policy. 48, 3, p. 398-411 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  4. Published

    Leveraging Biodiversity Action From Plural Values: Transformations of Governance Systems

    Leventon, J., Duşe, I. A. & Horcea-Milcu, A. I., 04.06.2021, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9, 609853.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  5. Published

    Sustainable Public Administration, Special Issue in Sustainability

    Heinrichs, H. (Editor) & Laws, N. (Editor), 04.06.2021, Basel: MDPI AG. (Sustainability; vol. 13, no. 11)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueTransfer

  6. Published

    Promoting recovery in daily life: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

    Reis, D., Hart, A., Lehr, D. & Friese, M., 02.06.2021, In: BMC psychology. 9, 1, 15 p., 91.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Quality and Adoption of COVID-19 Tracing Apps and Recommendations for Development: Systematic Interdisciplinary Review of European Apps

    Kahnbach, L., Lehr, D., Brandenburger, J., Mallwitz, T., Jent, S., Hannibal, S., Funk, B. & Janneck, M., 02.06.2021, In: Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23, 6, 18 p., e27989.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  8. Published

    Chronobiologische Aspekte der Insomnie

    Ell, J., Benz, F., Walter, N., Steinmetz, L., Brueckner, H., Lehr, D., Riemann, D. & Spiegelhalder, K., 01.06.2021, In: Somnologie. 25, 2, p. 110-118 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  9. Published

    Ecosystem services from (pre-)Alpine grasslands: Matches and mismatches between citizens’ perceived suitability and farmers’ management considerations

    Schmitt, T. M., Martín-López, B., Kaim, A., Früh-Müller, A. & Koellner, T., 01.06.2021, In: Ecosystem Services. 49, 11 p., 101284.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Editorial: Sustainable public administration

    Heinrichs, H. & Laws, N., 01.06.2021, In: Sustainability. 13, 11, 3 p., 6382.

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  11. Published

    Entwicklung und Umsetzung eines Monitoringsystems zur Analyse der Akteursstruktur bei Freiflächen-Photovoltaik und der Windenergie an Land: Ergebnisse des Monitorings und Empfehlungen

    Weiler, K., Weber, A., Grashof, K., Holstenkamp, L. & Ehrtmann, M., 01.06.2021, Dressau-Roßlau: Umweltbundesamt, 203 p. (Climate Change; no. 49/2021).

    Research output: Working paperProject reportsResearch

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Researchers

  1. Hans-Dieter Sträter

Publications

  1. Postkonstruktivismus - Jenseits von Postmoderne und cultural turn
  2. Der Bestseller und die Werteproblematik
  3. Ausspracheprobleme weißrussischer Deutschlernender und Schritte zur korrekten Aussprache
  4. "Ich leide, also bin ich"
  5. Lehrerbildung - besser interaktiv? Videokonferenzen als digitale Brücke zwischen Theorie und Praxis in der Englischlehrerausbildung
  6. ÖR-Examensklausur zum Versammlungsrecht
  7. Corrigendum to ‘Cold season ammonia emissions from land spreading with anaerobic digestates from biogas production’ [Atmos. Environ. 84 (2014) 35–38]
  8. Entwicklung und Validierung eines Fragebogens zur emotionsspezifischen Selbsteinschätzung emotionaler Kompetenzen (SEK-ES).
  9. Georg Himmelheber, Cast-Iron Furniture and All Other Forms of Iron Furniture
  10. Sharing Economy
  11. Wirkungsmessung in Social Entrepreneurship Organisationen
  12. Das physische Selbstkonzept, die individuell präferierte Bezugsnormorientierung und die Zielorientierung bei Grundschulkindern der zweiten und vierten Jahrgangsstufe
  13. Social organization influences the exchange and species richness of medicinal plants in amazonian homegardens
  14. Utilization of phenolic compounds by microalgae
  15. Internetbasierte Ansätze in der Prävention und Behandlung von depressiven Beschwerden bei Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen
  16. Networks and the idea-fruition process of female social entrepreneurs in South Africa
  17. Success of collaboration for sustainable agriculture: a case study meta-analysis
  18. Zum Erkenntnispotenzial von künstlichen Bildsystemen
  19. Gender Mainstreaming als Aufgabe der Organisationsentwicklung im Kontext von Sozialmanagement
  20. Parteien in parlamentarischen Demokratien: das Lebenswerk von Peter Mair
  21. § 286 bis § 292 BGB Verzug des Schuldners
  22. Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag (§ 678)
  23. Die Beziehung zwischen CSR und Corporate Sustainability
  24. Dramaturgies of Theatrical Imagination