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Implications of transdisciplinarity for sustainability research

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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.
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This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2006-11-01. It has received 590 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Transdisciplinarity & Sustainable development.

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Going beyond the AHA! moment: insight discovery for transdisciplinary research and learning

TL;DR: In this article , the authors developed and applied the concept of insight discovery as a key competence for transdisciplinary research and learning, and suggested that insights are the outcome of a learning process influenced by the collective and environment in which they are conceived, rather than instant moments of individual brilliance.
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Some Researchers Do, Some Researchers Don't Reflections on Interdisciplinarity and Digital Social Research

TL;DR: Five years of collaboration on the PolicyGrid I and II projects are reflected upon, undertaking research that seeks to understand the activities of interdisciplinary teams of social, environmental and natural scientists working on policy-related topics in the human-environment interactions field and to support these activities through the development of web-based research collaboration tools utilising Semantic Web technologies.
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Transdisciplinary Approaches to Understand and Facilitate Transformations Towards Sustainability

TL;DR: In this paper, a short overview of these new approaches to re-defining the nexus between science and policymaking is presented, which combines classic curiosity-driven approaches of scientific inquiry with goal-oriented and catalytic concepts.
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Knowledge Co-production Processes for Building Disaster Resilience of Communities in Coastal Areas: A Case Study of Baler, Aurora, Philippines

TL;DR: In this article, a survey of communities' perception of disaster resilience, and a participatory workshop for understanding the gaps in the current disaster risk reduction (DRR) system were conducted in the five coastal communities of Baler in the province of Aurora in the Philippines to illustrate how strategies for building disaster-resilient communities would benefit from the use of grassroots assessments methods.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

TL;DR: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the history of science and philosophy of science, and it has been widely cited as a major source of inspiration for the present generation of scientists.
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Our common future

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The Limits to Growth

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate five major trends of global concern: accelerating industrialization, rapid population growth, widespread malnutrition, depletion of nonrenewable resources, and a deteriorating environment.
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Science for the post-normal age

Silvio Funtowicz, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1993 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a new type of science called post-normal science is proposed to cope with many uncertainties in policy issues of risk and the environment, which can provide a path to the democratization of science, and also a response to the current tendencies to post-modernity.
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