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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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Participatory Scenarios for Exploring the Future: Insights from Cherry Farming in South Patagonia:

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a study to construct narrative-based scenarios to complement models for exploring the sustainability of cherry production in South Patagonia, which is part of a European-funded project (EULACIAS) which focuses on the co-innovation of farming systems in Latin America.
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The motivations, desired outcomes, and visions of partner organizations to Collective Impact tree planting: A transdisciplinary case study of CommuniTree in Northwest Indiana, U.S.

TL;DR: The first phase of a transdisciplinary research program that draws insights from urban forest governance scholarship and transdisciplinary sustainability science as well as from urban forests professionals involved in CommuniTree who helped design the research was presented in this article.

Environmentalism of the dispossessed: Mapping ecologies of resistance

Leah Temper
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the motivos, energias, and strategies of resistencia in luchas sociales against desposesion in the context of conflictos ambientales.
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Institutional entrepreneurship in an academic organisation: sustainability at Malardalen University

TL;DR: In this article, a case of institutional entrepreneurship for sustainable development in higher education and research collaboration in a Swedish academic milieu is described and elaborated on a case where the authors argue that universities can and should have a leading role in producing new knowledge and innovation for promoting sustainable development.

Exploring the role of a bridging organization to operationalize transdisciplinarity for improved ecosystem management and environmental decision-making : a case study in the Three Rivers Source Region, Qinghai- Tibetan Plateau, China

Jiaxin Tan
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated how a bridging organization could enhance the participation of local people into ecosystem management, and facilitate the collaboration among key actors, including science community, local community and policy-makers.
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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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