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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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Ecological processes related to urban development and land use change in the municipality of Coimbra
TL;DR: Tese de doutoramento em Biologia, no ramo de ecologia as discussed by the authors, apresentada ao Departamento de Ciencias da Vida da Faculdade de Cientícias e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra.
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The Politics of Participatory Sustainability Assessments: An Analysis of Power
Livia Fritz,Franziska Meinherz +1 more
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Broker imposed precarity of Indian technical immigrants
Shrihari S. Sohani,Biju Varkkey +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the labour supply chain of Indian technical immigrants in the United States and reveal a latent phenomenon of broker-induced precarity that results from the labor supply chain and explore how aspirational jobs are becoming precarious ones.
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Partizipative Modellierung. Beteiligungsexperimente in der sozialökologischen Forschung
TL;DR: In this paper, empirically analyse zeigt, dass die mit Partizipation erwarteten Rationalitatsgewinne am Ehesten in solchen Kontexten zu erwarten sind, in denen Eigeninteresse, lebensweltliche Betroffenheit und ein Spezialwissen der Beteiligten vorausgesetzt werden konnen.
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Addressing complex, political and intransient sustainability challenges of transdisciplinarity: The case of the MEGADAPT project in Mexico City
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the case of an international, transdisciplinary project to explore some of the challenges in scientist-stakeholder interactions in addressing a truly wicked sustainability problem in Mexico City.
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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.