Professor Stefan Schaltegger, Chair of Corporate Sustainability Management, Head of the Centre for Sustainability Management, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany

‘Un-sustainability’ represents an array of quite different complex problems, which require new research, analysis and solution-finding approaches. Transdisciplinarity is developing as the mainstream set of research approaches of sustainability science(s). Most transdisciplinary publications and projects investigate global syndromes or large-scale cases of un-sustainability (e.g. the greenhouse effect, diminishing quality and availability of drinking water, desertification, slums in megacities). Although companies are frequently addressed, they mostly only play an indirect role in this research…

Melbourne campus, Room 221, Physical Sciences 1 (PS1); videoconferences to other campuses can be arranged.