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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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Transdisciplinary research in sustainability science: practice, principles, and challenges
Daniel J. Lang,Arnim Wiek,Matthias Bergmann,Michael Stauffacher,Pim Martens,Pim Martens,Peter Moll,Mark Swilling,Christopher Thomas +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual model of an ideal-typical transdisciplinary research process is synthesized and structures such a set of principles from various strands of the literature and empirical experiences, looking at challenges and coping strategies as experienced in transdisciplinary sustainability projects in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and Asia.
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Key competencies in sustainability: a reference framework for academic program development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a broad literature review of key competencies in sustainability research and problem-solving competence and address critical gaps in the conceptualization of sustainability in higher education.
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Foundations of transdisciplinarity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose three laws of transdisciplinarity, namely, Levels of Reality, Axiom of the Included Middle, and Complexity, for higher education.
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Sustainability Transitions Research: Transforming Science and Practice for Societal Change
TL;DR: The field of sustainability transitions research has emerged in the past two decades in the context of a growing scientific and public interest in large-scale societal transformation toward sustainability as discussed by the authors, which has led three different types of approaches to dealing with agency in transitions: analytical, evaluative, and experimental.
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Transdisciplinary global change research: The co-creation of knowledge for sustainability
Wolfram Mauser,Gernot Klepper,Martin Rice,Bettina Susanne Schmalzbauer,Heide Hackmann,Rik Leemans,Howard Moore +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the relationship between scientific integration and transdisciplinarity, discuss the dimensions of integration of different knowledge and propose a platform and a paradigm for research towards global sustainability that will be both designed and conducted in partnership between science and society.
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Goals, agenda, and policy recommendations for ecological economics
TL;DR: The work in this article summarizes the state and goals of the emerging transdisciplinary field of ecological economics, particularly as regards issues of sustainability; provides a working agenda for research, education and policy for the coming decade to ensure sustainability; and provides some policy guidelines and recommendations for achieving these goals.
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Reading Freire and Habermas: Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Social Change
TL;DR: In this article, two well-known scholars of critical educational studies provide a compelling introduction to the thoughts of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and German critical theorist Jurgen Habermas.
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Transdisciplinary collaboration in environmental research
TL;DR: In this article, a series of qualitative interviews was conducted with researchers involved in two recent Swiss and Swedish research programmes, where natural and social scientists had to collaborate in problem-driven environmental research.