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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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Climate change in sociology: Still silent or resonating?:
Jens Koehrsen,Sascha Dickel,Thomas Pfister,Simone Rödder,Stefan Böschen,Björn Wendt,Katharina Block,Anna Henkel +7 more
TL;DR: Since Lever-Tracy's call for stronger sociological engagement with climate change in 2008, the number of climate-related contributions to leading sociological journals has increased as mentioned in this paper. Yet, they stil...
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Unraveling the politics of 'doing inclusion' in transdisciplinarity for sustainable transformation.
TL;DR: The authors argue that by understanding "Doing inclusion" as a political practice, necessitating specificity about the (normative) ambitions in different inclusion settings, facilitators may better grasp and address challenges in transdisciplinarity for transformation.
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Solving/understanding/evaluating the e-waste challenge through transdisciplinarity?
TL;DR: The NVMP-StEP E-waste Summer School as discussed by the authors was an educational experiment to encourage disciplinary boundary crossing in the ewaste community through a summer school, where young researchers from diverse disciplines with a common research interest in e-w waste participated.
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Dealing with the multidimensionality of sustainability through the use of multiple perspectives – a theoretical framework
TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical framework was developed that describes perspectives in terms of a set of general characteristics, as well as a number of ways in which students can develop and reflect on perspectives.
Visions and Realities: Tensions in the field of urban sustainable development with Malmö and energy as a case study
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of urban sustainable development in the Oresund region of Sweden is presented, where the authors explore the tension between local-global and discourse-reality as structuring concepts.
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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.