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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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Evaluating change in students' environmental values: The impact of environmental learning in undergraduate design courses

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of the design and the environment course at the University of Newcastle on the environmental attitudes and behaviours of a single cohort of students, using the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP).
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Fostering transdisciplinary research for equitable and sustainable development pathways across Africa: what changes are needed?

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored the challenges and enablers of transdisciplinarity in African academic institutions and synthesised their learnings alongside key literature, and explore avenues to better promote and support TD within academic institutions across Africa; resource TD for sustainable partnerships; and strengthen TD practices and impacts to support transformation to sustainability across diverse places and contexts.
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Conflict Causes and Prevention Strategies at the Society-Science Nexus in Transdisciplinary Collaborative Research Settings: A Case Study of a Food Security Project in Tanzania

TL;DR: The understanding of interacting with local communities in a food security context is supported to support the development of innovative collaboration approaches and 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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