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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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Design principles for advancing higher education sustainability learning through transformative research

TL;DR: The Transformative Innovation Lab (TIL) as mentioned in this paper is a learning course developed and tested at two German universities to support Masters students in their process of developing real-world laboratories and exploring urban sustainability transitions through collaborative experimentation with local practice partners.
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Shared Spaces als Orte der Wissensintegration und Experimentierräume für eine partizipative Forschungspolitik

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the globalen herausforderungen, i.e., the Folge einer komplexen Interaktion of anthropogen bedingten Umweltveranderungs, wie Klimawandel, Verlust biologischer Vielfalt, Wassermangel und -verschmutzung, Bodendegradierung, Wustenbildung and Schad-and Nahrstoffkreislaufen.
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Yeknemilis: Social Learning and Intercultural Transdisciplinary Collaboration for Sustainable Life

TL;DR: In this paper , Tosepan, an organization of the Masewal and other indigenous peoples of this region, reflected on their cultural roots, ways of life, and relations with the territory to strengthen their alternative and self-determined lifeway.
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Overcoming barriers to social inclusion in agricultural intensification: reflections on a transdisciplinary community development project from India and Bangladesh

TL;DR: In this article , the authors describe a research-for-development (R4D) strategy developed to address how investments and interventions in agricultural intensification as a means to achieve community development can be designed to be more socially inclusive and equitable.
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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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