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. 2025
  2. Published

    Mostly harmless econometrics? Statistical paradigms in the ‘top five’ from 2000 to 2018

    Engler, J. O., Beeck, J. J. & von Wehrden, H., 2025, In: Journal of Economic Methodology. 32, 1, p. 14-32 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Accepted/In press

    Negotiating With Yourself and Winning: The Dual Commitment Model for Intrapersonal Sustainability Goal Conflicts

    Sevincer, A. T., Majer, J. M. & Trötschel, R., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Motivation Science.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    On-farm compost and parsley residues extract use on organic fennel crop to improve agronomic performance and environmental sustainability

    Diacono, M., Fiore, A., Di Bene, C., Farina, R., Trinchera, A., Li, J., Geelen, D., Pleissner, D., Almendinger, M., Montemurro, F. & Persiani, A., 2025, In: Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. 49, 5, p. 615-640 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Accepted/In press

    Participatory mapping of local people's values in restoration landscapes in Western Rwanda

    Ndayizeye, G., Kmoch, L., Baumann, M., Nsengimana, V., Fischer, J. & Plieninger, T., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Restoration Ecology. 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Pathways to synergize reductive with relational logics in environmental policy

    Pérez-Hämmerle, K. V., Moon, K., Raymond, C. M., Lucas, P., Hakkarainen, V. & Wood, P., 2025, In: Ecosystems and People. 21, 1, 20 p., 2529585.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Planting futures: School-based food forests and their contribution to holistic education for sustainable development

    Gobs, J., 2025, In: GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. 34, 2, p. 97-105 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Accepted/In press

    Psychological intervention in individuals with subthreshold depression: individual participant data meta-analysis of treatment effects and moderators

    Author Collaboration of "Psychological intervention in individuals with subthreshold depression: individual participant data meta-analysis of treatment effects and moderators", Harrer, M., Sprenger, A. A., Illing, S., Adriaanse, M. C., Albert, S. M., Allart, E. & Lehr, D., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: British Journal of Psychiatry. 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  9. Published
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  11. Accepted/In press

    Sampling and processing of climate change information and disinformation across three diverse countries

    Rahmani Azad, Z., Spampatti, T., Gluth, S., Tam, K. P. & Hahnel, U. J. J., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: British Journal of Psychology.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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Researchers

  1. Christina Sandin

Publications

  1. Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung
  2. Marktvergesellschaftung
  3. International student mobility
  4. Rezension von James E. Katz
  5. Luminescence dating of Late Pleistocene eruptions in the Eifel Volcanic Field, Germany
  6. Socio-political and socio-spatial implications of the economic crisis and austerity politics in Southern European cities
  7. Manager-Boni: Anreize für Nachhaltigkeit
  8. The Influence of After-Sales Service Determinants on Brand Loyalty Within the Premium Automotive Industry
  9. Neue Medien im interdisziplinären Musikunterricht – Geschichte, Chancen und Beispiele
  10. Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung und EU Hochwasserrisikomanagement-Richtlinie
  11. Schlobinski, P. (2014). Grundfragen der Sprachwissenschaft. Eine Einführung in die Welt der Sprache(n). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
  12. The Development of International Law by the International Court of Justice
  13. Poststrukturalistische Diskurs- und Hegemonietheorie: Die Veränderbarkeit der Ordnung
  14. ROYAL-COMMISSION-ON-ANCIENT-AND-HISTORICAL-MONUMENTS-IN-WALES, GLAMORGAN INVENTORY, VOL 3 PT 1A, THE EARLY CASTLES, FROM THE NORMAN-CONQUEST TO 1217
  15. Kommentierung zu Buch 11 der ZPO: Justizielle Zusammenarbeit in der Europäischen Union
  16. Gaspreiskontrolle im Vertragsrecht ?
  17. Kreditwirtschaftliche Vertriebsstrategeien
  18. Aufgabenkultur
  19. Die Sozialisierung des Wissens und das Streben nach Deutungsmacht
  20. Regionalorganisationen in Afrika - eine Bilanz
  21. PowerPoint und die Einkapselung von Prozessualität im projektübergreifenden Lernen
  22. Reittourismus: Entwicklungspotenzial der Binnenregionen Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns
  23. Pouvoir, violence, représentation
  24. Low Balling und Reform der europäischen Abschlussprüfung
  25. Utopie, Physiologie und Technologie des Fernsprechens
  26. The Legitimation of International Organizations
  27. Führungsstrukturen im Lichte theoretischer Ansätze
  28. Teilhabe behinderter Menschen am Arbeitsleben: Allgemeine Leistungen
  29. Konzerninterne Lieferung keine "Verbreitung an die Öffentlichkeit"
  30. The Infraordinary
  31. Kontrollierter Kontrollverlust
  32. New Zealand and Chile: Partnership for the Pacific century?
  33. National sustainability strategies
  34. Hybride Bedrohungen