Professorship for International Sustainable Development and Planning

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

The aim of our research at the professorship for International Sustainable Development and Planning (ISDP) is to make sound contributions to the international field of Sustainability Science and thus to advance it. To this end, we generate empirical findings that help to understand the causes of (un-)sustainability, that is, to unravel, elicit and comprehend systems of values, knowledge and institutions that foster and underpin sustainable transformations and human-nature relations.

Four main principles mark our research and its (ongoing) development: interdisciplinarity, collaboration, commitment with the science-society respectively -policy interfaces and responsibility.

Main research areas

We research how Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) are used, valued and demanded by different social actors in multiple social-ecological contexts. In addition, we seek to understand how different systems of values, knowledge and institutions with regards to human-nature relations are changing in different social-ecological contexts and identify ways by which these changes can be redirected to facilitate human-nature connectedness. We also advance knowledge to determine which configurations of values, knowledge and institutions promote pathways towards sustainability.

 

Modus Operandi

Our research program is highly inter- and transdisciplinary as the main motivation is to understand social-ecological dynamics across scales in order to foster sustainability. To do so, we conduct place-based social-ecological research in different rural systems in Africa, Europe and Latin America, as well as, regional and global assessments.

In order to meet the inter- and transdisciplinary requirements of our research the team covers different disciplines, including environmental science, sustainability science, ecological economics, humanities, feminist studies or political ecology. Moreover, we work collaboratively with scientists from other disciplines as well as social actors outside academia. Important partners in these collaborations are some minorities and marginalized groups, such as Indigenous Peoples and local communities, people with disabilities, and people discriminated because their gender*.

As a research team, we have an active commitment with the science-society and science-policy interfaces. Accordingly, we engage with a diverse and broad range of societal actors and, for instance, in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

Our daily research is guided by the conviction that it must be responsible. Responsibility means, in particular, responsibility towards society, towards our colleagues and collaborators, and towards ourselves. In our understanding, this principle strongly relates with a feminist ethos of care that we intend to practice steadily.

* refers to all non-male people, which also includes trans-gender, non-binary people and gender fluid people.

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Researchers

  1. Bellina Leonie

Publications

  1. Verlorene Gelassenheit
  2. Mut zur Weite der Vernunft. Thesen zum Verhältnis von Vernunft, Glaube, der universitas scientiarum und zum Dialog der Kulturen aus reformatorischer Sicht
  3. ZP-Stichwort: Percentage-of-Completion-Methode
  4. Zusammenhang räumlicher Fähigkeiten von Grundschulkindern in schriftlichen und realen Settings - Implikationen einer Strukturgleichungsanalyse für den Geometrieunterricht
  5. Von der Notwendigkeit interdisziplinär ausgerichteter Studienangebote
  6. Politik der Mikroentscheidungen
  7. Marktpolitische Instrumente für Kreditinstitute, [Teil] (I)
  8. Neue Möglichkeiten zur Nutzung vertraulicher amtlicher Personen- und Firmendaten
  9. Key knowledge gaps to achieve global sustainability goals
  10. Schlobinski, P. (2014). Grundfragen der Sprachwissenschaft. Eine Einführung in die Welt der Sprache(n). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
  11. Rezension Julia Suchorski (Hrsg.), 2017, Das Spiel meines Lebens
  12. Gesundheitsprobleme und Gesundheitsversorgung von Menschen in der aufenthaltsrechtlichen Illegalität
  13. Verstehen
  14. Internationaler Vergleich der Erfolgssituation von Kreditinstituten
  15. Gründungs- und Wettbewerbspotenziale im deutschen Eisenbahnsektor - vertikale Verbundvorteile ein Hindernis für Trennung von Netz und Transport?
  16. Rarity types of forest plants in Northern Germany
  17. A pénzügyi szektorban működő vállalatokkal szembeni pénzbírságok: a kérdéses felső határok kumulálása
  18. Rhetorische Kommunikation
  19. Das gewohnte Wirtschaften steht unter Druck: Nachhaltig(-keit) ausbilden!
  20. Matthew Rampley, The Vienna School of Art History: Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847 – 1918
  21. Investitionsschutz­gericht in CETA: ein Schritt in die richtige Richtung
  22. Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung in der vorschulischen Bildung
  23. Regionalzentren – Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (RCEs) Was? Noch nie gehört?
  24. Vorabentscheidungsverfahren, Gegenstand
  25. Ecological features facilitating spread of alien plants along Mediterranean mountain roads
  26. Estudo dos Parâmetros do Processo de Soldagem a Ponto por Fricção de Chapa Fina da Liga de Alumínio AA2198-T8
  27. Sprache und inklusive politische Bildung
  28. Erfolgsfaktoren der Weiterbildung
  29. Zur Notwendigkeit von Nachhaltigkeit in der Corporate Governance