Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The aim of research and teaching at our institute is to make an active contribution to shaping societal transformation towards sustainability. We work on appropriate scientific and philosophical foundations as well as on ways to include different (civil) societal actors in research processes.

The institute is subdivided into the following four core areas: (i) Sustainability Ethics (ii) Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, (iii) Sustainability Science and (iv) Social Sustainability.

Main research areas

Unsere Forschung deckt ein breites Spektrum an thematischen und methodischen Zugängen ab. Innerhalb der Fakultät Nachhaltigkeit am Schnittpunkt von natur- und sozialwissenschaftlich fokussierter Forschung angesiedelt, ist unsere Arbeit geprägt durch inter- und transdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit - innerhalb der Universität und über ihre Grenzen hinaus.
Im Rahmen dieser Kooperationen arbeiten wir lösungsorientiert und zielen darauf ab, im wechselseitigen Austausch zwischen Wissenschaftlern/-innen unterschiedlicher Disziplinen sowie relevanten gesellschaftlichen Akteuren sozial robustes Wissen zu erzeugen.

Forschungsschwerpunkte und Kernkonzepte

Sustainability Science
Transdisziplinäre Nachhaltigkeitsforschung
Nachhaltigkeitsethik

  1. Published

    Forschendes Lernen in der Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaft

    Vilsmaier, U. & Meyer, E. M., 05.2017, Forschendes Lernen: Wie die Lehre in Universität und Fachhochschule erneuert werden kann. Mieg, H. A. & Lehmann, J. (eds.). Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, p. 357-366 10 p.

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

  2. Published

    Environmental justice and care: critical emancipatory contributions to sustainability discourse

    Gottschlich, D. & Bellina, L., 01.12.2017, In: Agriculture and Human Values. 34, 4, p. 941-953 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Bridging divides in sustainability science

    Lang, D. J., Wiek, A. & von Wehrden, H., 01.11.2017, In: Sustainability Science. 12, 6, p. 875 - 879 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsComments / Debate / ReportsResearch

  4. Published

    Real-world Laboratories and Transformation Research: Call for Papers: GAIA Open Access Special Issue

    Schäpke, N., Stelzer, F., Bergmann, M., Lang, D. J., Wagner, F. & Miller, E., 15.01.2017, In: GAIA. 26, 1, p. 55-57 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  5. Published

    Urban BaWü-Labs: Challenges and Solutions when Expanding the Real-World Lab Infrastructure

    Schäpke, N., Stelzer, F., Marg, O., Bergmann, M., Miller, E., Wagner, F. & Lang, D. J., 15.12.2017, In: GAIA. 26, 4, p. 366-368 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  6. Published

    Case Study: the social context of arsenic regulation and exposure in South East Hungary

    Mildorfová-Leventon, J., 07.2017, Best Practice Guide on the control of Arsenic in Drinking Water. Bhattacharya, P., Polya, D. A. & Jovanovic, D. (eds.). IWA Publishing, p. 239-246 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Community awareness and engagement for arsenic management

    Mildorfová-Leventon, J., 07.2017, Best Practice Guide on the Control of Arsenic in Drinking Water. Bhattacharya, P., Polya, D. A. & Jovanovic, D. (eds.). IWA Publishing, p. 117-124 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Sustainability conflicts in Coastal India: Hazards, changing climate and development discourse in Indian Sundarbans

    Ghosh, A., 12.2017, 1 ed. Germany: Springer Verlag. 245 p. (Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  9. Published

    Mapping a sustainable future: Community learning in dialogue at the science–society interface

    Barth, M., Lang, D. J., Luthardt, P. & Vilsmaier, U., 01.12.2017, In: International Review of Education. 63, 6, p. 811 - 828 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Local food sovereignty for global food security? Highlighting interplay challenges

    Leventon, J. & Laudan, J., 10.2017, In: Geoforum. 85, p. 23-26 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

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Publications

  1. Borders
  2. How does the context and design of participatory decision making processes affect their outcomes? Evidence from sustainable land management in global drylands
  3. Conservation value of moist evergreen Afromontane forest sites with different management and history in southwestern Ethiopia
  4. Interactions of CaO with pure Mg and Mg-Ca alloys—an in situ synchrotron radiation diffraction study
  5. Hydrology and flood probability of the monsoon-dominated Chindwin River in northern Myanmar
  6. Studiengang "Master in Auditing" an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
  7. CSR, moral licensing and organizational misconduct
  8. Acquiring 'different strokes'.
  9. Effects of introspective vs. extraspective instruction in scaling of hedonic properties of flavouring ingredients by Chinese and German subjects
  10. Systematic study of the effect of non-uniform seal stiffness on the contact stress in flat-faced soft-seated spring operated pressure relief valves
  11. From 'privacy calculus' to 'Social calculus'
  12. Buchbesprechung
  13. Multidimensional Polarization of Income and Wealth: The Extent and Intensity of Poverty and Affluence
  14. Romanik in Rom und Latium
  15. Climate – grazing interactions in Mongolian rangelands
  16. Die strukturelle Ideologie des Internet
  17. Corporate social responsibility and dividend policy
  18. Artistic exchanges across Afro-Eurasia
  19. Das Reflexivitätsproblem und die Kategorienlehre
  20. Media of Trust
  21. Environmental justice and care
  22. Occurrence and Air-sea exchange of phthalates in the Arctic
  23. Corrosion behavior of multi-layer friction surfaced structure from dissimilar aluminum alloys
  24. Case Studies: Germany
  25. Biologistics and the struggle for efficiency
  26. Das Projekt Berber-Zeitung
  27. Exploring the influence of testimonial source on attitudes towards e-mental health interventions among university students
  28. The relevance of international restoration principles for ecosystem restoration practice in Rwanda
  29. Computer Simulations Then and Now
  30. Migrant struggles and moral economies of subversion
  31. Managing Research Environments
  32. Words and deeds
  33. Ecosystem services and sustainability: descriptive means, normative goals and societal transformations
  34. Es geht auch anders!
  35. The Law Behind Rule of Law Transfers
  36. Der extrovertierte Rechtstaat
  37. INSA Indicator System Sustainable Agriculture