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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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Towards relating Maya and contemporary conceptions of cancer: A transdisciplinary process to foster intercultural scientific exchange
TL;DR: The article describes how transdisciplinarity, intercultural, CBPR, and intercultural cooperation between indigenous, Mayan, and Western biomedical and health experts, as well as the ‘Maya’ project, describes the efforts to develop new methods to overcome these challenges.
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Determinants of Environmental Innovations in the Swiss and German Food and Beverage Industry
TL;DR: In this paper, a standardized questionnaire was developed and face-to-face interviews were conducted with 60 company representatives in Switzerland and Germany to evaluate the influence of environmental triggers on environmental innovations and on competitiveness.
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Ethics in Transdisciplinary Research: Reflections on the Implications of ‘Science with Society’
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of a transdisciplinary PhD is presented, where the authors consider what strategies transdisciplinary scholars can employ to ensure they fulfil the requirements of ethical research in the absence of suitably aligned institutional processes, and what changes need to be made to research ethics clearance procedures to enable them to account for transdisciplinary research.
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On which common ground to build? Transferable knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary sustainability research
Gabriela Wuelser,Carolina Adler,Carolina Adler,Thomas Breu,Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn,Urs Wiesmann,Christian Pohl +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a qualitative approach based on the methodology of grounded theory to empirically examine what knowledge is considered transferable to other cases, if any, and found that transdisciplinary principles, transdisciplinary approaches, systematic procedures, product formats, experiential know-how, framings and insights, data and information are transferable.
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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.