Transdisciplinary Research and Sustainability

Collaboration, Innovation and Transformation

Buch | Hardcover

314 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-21640-2 (ISBN)

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This book presents transdisciplinary research in practice. It describes methodological innovations and examines the challenges involved in integrating non-academic actors in scientific research, the tensions that arise in the encounter of theory and praxis, and the inherently normative, political nature of sustainability research.

Transdisciplinarity is a new way of scientifically meeting the challenges of sustainability. Indeed, interdisciplinary collaboration and co-operation with non-academic ‘practice partners’ is at the core of this; creating contextualised, socially relevant knowledge about complex real-world problems.

Transdisciplinary Research and Sustainability breaks new ground by presenting transdisciplinary research in practice, drawing on recent advances by the vibrant transdisciplinary research communities in the German-speaking world. It describes methodological innovations developed to address wide-ranging contemporary issues including climate change adaptation, energy policy, sustainable agriculture and soil conservation. Furthermore, the authors reflect on the challenges involved in integrating non-academic actors in scientific research, on the tensions that arise in the encounter of theory and praxis, and on the inherently normative, political nature of sustainability research.

Highlighting the need for academic institutions to be transformed to reflect transdisciplinarity, this timely volume will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Sustainability Science, Transdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy of Science.

Martina Padmanabhan is W3 Chair of Comparative Development and Cultural Studies - Southeast Asia, University of Passau, Germany

Preface: Bernhard Gläser & Heike Egner, series editors

Foreword by the editor: Martina Padmanabhan

Introduction: Transdisciplinarity for sustainability

Martina Padmanabhan

Section 1: Understanding sustainability science as challenge and necessity

A transdisciplinary approach to the process of socio-technical transformation: the case of German ‘Energiewende’

Armin Grunwald

Real-world laboratories as an institutionalisation of the new social contract between science and society

Mandy Singer-Brodowski & Matthias Wanner & Uwe Schneidewind

Transdisciplinarity in social-ecological research: Constraints, challenges and opportunities. Reflections on personal experience

Sabine Hofmeister

Section 2: Cooperating with partners of practice

From the plurality of transdisciplinarity to concrete transdisciplinary methods. The case of PoNa and its dialogue with practitioners on a picture discourse analysis.

Daniela Gottschlich & Jedrzej Sulmowski

Social learning videos: A method for successful collaboration between science and practice

Patricia Fry

Developing landscape scenarios and identifying local management options:

Outcomes and evaluation of a participatory approach in the Swabian Alb, Germany

Claudia Bieling, Holger Gerdes, Bettina Ohnesorge, Tobias Plieninger, Harald Schaich, Christian Schleyer, Kathrin Trommler & Franziska Wolff

Section 3: Pursuing methodological innovations for transdisciplinarity

This is the case (study) - so what? Reflections on a constitutive tension in sustainability science

Rafael Ziegler

Facilitating change: Methodologies for collaborative learning with stakeholders

Anja Christinck & Brigitte Kaufmann

Dream team or evil twins? International tandems in transdisciplinary research

Martina Padmanabhan

Section 4: Policy Interface: Creating dialogues with policy makers

Die Landforscher: Independent researchers networking for sustainable agriculture

Andrea Fink-Keßler & Karin Jürgens

Prospective scenario planning in collaborative transdisciplinary research

Ingo Neumann Neumann &, Sonja Deppisch

Policy foresight: Conceptual ideas on how to engage with dynamics of policy instrument design

Carsten Mann & Jan-Peter Voss

Outlook: The future of transdisciplinarity

Martina Padmanabhan

Erscheinungsdatum	30.11.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Environment, Culture, and Society
Zusatzinfo	10 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 22 Halftones, black and white; 26 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-138-21640-2 / 1138216402
ISBN-13	978-1-138-21640-2 / 9781138216402
Zustand	Neuware