The teaching addresses key challenges such as the climate crisis, demographic change, the mobility transition and digitalisation. It is practice-oriented and promotes the examination of these social transformation processes. With an interdisciplinary approach, it combines technical, scientific and social science perspectives to enable students to design future-oriented solutions. The aim is to educate specialists who can combine social, economic, legal and ecological requirements for living spaces and infrastructures.

The teaching in the Master's degree programmes is geared towards providing students with an overview of the respective subject area and, above all, equipping them with in-depth expertise in resource management. With an application-oriented, interdisciplinary approach, it combines technical, scientific and economic perspectives. The aim is to educate specialists who understand complex environmental and social challenges, apply networked thinking and can develop sustainable, innovative solutions.

The faculty educates specialists who are familiar with global transformation processes and can understand and manage the complex interrelationships between social, economic and environmental requirements. In international teams, they tackle real-life problems and draw on digital solutions. This enables graduates to acquire fundamental skills with which they can confidently compete in an international job market. The Master's degree programmes at the faculty are offered exclusively in English.

In teaching and research projects, the faculty uses a variety of technical (small-scale) devices, e.g. for remote sensing, for the collection and measurement of environmental data and for scientific modelling. The faculty's equipment includes various drones, hydrological metrology, photovoltaic modules, sensors for determining ground, climate and weather data, AR and VR technology, etc.

Like teaching, research at the faculty follows a holistic approach that prioritises the needs and interests of those involved. Naturally, the focus is on the development of sustainable solutions for the management of natural resources. Biophysical, ecological, economic and social questions are linked and integrated into the research structure. Different disciplines and methods are combined to shed light on complex challenges from different perspectives and to promote innovative approaches.

Teaching and research in the faculty are geared towards the complex challenges identified by leading research institutes and actors in international collaboration, such as the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), EU, World Bank, etc. This is based on international agreements such as the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the European Green Deal, the Rio Conventions and the Kyoto Protocol. In line with the concept of "Global Citizenship", research and teaching aim to actively shape social change (social innovation).