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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.About:
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.read more
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Identifying future research directions for biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainability: perspectives from early-career researchers
Sarwar Hossain,Sarah J. Pogue,Liz Trenchard,Alexander P.E. van Oudenhoven,Carla-Leanne Washbourne,Evalyne Wairimu Muiruri,Aleksandra M. Tomczyk,Marina García-Llorente,Rachel Hale,Violeta Hevia,Thomas P. Adams,Leila Tavallali,Siân de Bell,Marian Pye,Fernando M. Resende +14 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify priority research questions in the field of biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainability (BESS), based on a workshop held during the NRG BESS Conference for Early Career Researchers on BESS, and compare these to existing horizon scanning exercises.
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Sustainability as it pertains to minerals and energy supply and demand: a new interpretative perspective for assessing progress
Chris Moran,Nadja C. Kunz +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a hierarchy from sustainable development, which begins at the global scale, to operating sustainable, which begin at the level of unit operations, with a focus on regional economies.
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Sustainable Development as a Wicked Problem
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the notion of sustainable development (SD) as a wicked problem and discuss the characteristics of such a problem as they apply to SD, and propose that such problems can be reduced to two basic elements: kinetic and subjective.
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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 19
TL;DR: The Hidden and External Costs of Pesticide Use as discussed by the authors : The hidden and external costs of pesticides use in agriculture are discussed in detail in the paper "Agroecological Intensification: Local Innovation to Address Global Challenges".
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Transdisciplinary higher education curriculum: a complicated cultural artifact
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss higher education curriculum as a cultural artifact reflecting human knowledge, which is also continuously shaped by the needs and demands of contemporary society, and the call for a paradigmatic shift to a transdisciplinary curriculum and research engagement is introduced as part of the academy's social responsibility.
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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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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
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.