Christian Pohl

TL;DR: The Emergence of Transdisciplinarity as a Form of Research is discussed in this article, where the authors present a survey of transdisciplinary research in the field of sustainable development.

TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that sustainability research for sustainable development has to be issue oriented and reflect the diversity, complexity and dynamics of the processes involved as well as their variability between specific problem situations.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic comparison of four sustainability research projects in Kenya (vulnerability to drought), Switzerland (soil protection), Bolivia and Nepal (conservation vs. development) shows how researchers intuitively adopted three different roles to face these challenges: the roles of reflective scientist, intermediary, and facilitator of a joint learning process.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline a vision for the coordination and organization of knowledge systems that are better suited to the complex challenges of sustainability than the ones currently in place, including societal agenda setting, collective problem framing, a plurality of perspectives, integrative research processes, new norms for handling dissent and controversy, better treatment of uncertainty and of diversity of values, extended peer review, broader and more transparent metrics for evaluation, effective dialog processes, and stakeholder participation.

TL;DR: In this paper, transdisciplinary research of the first type reorganizes knowledge according to the perceived interest of the audience and the second type initiates a co-production of knowledge during which the different policy cultures interact.