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Ecological Economics

Implications of transdisciplinarity for sustainability research

Hirsch Hadorn, G, Bradley, D, Pohl, C, Rist, S, Wiesmann, U

In ecological economics the terms sustainable development and transdisciplinarity are closely related. It is shown that this close relation is due to the fact that 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. Furthermore, the knowledge of people involved and their needs and interests at stake have to be taken into account.

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  • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

    Toolkitting: an unrecognized form of expertise for overcoming fragmentation in inter and transdisciplinarity

    Laursen, B, Vienni-Baptista, B, Bammer, G, Di Giulio, A, Paulsen, T, Robson-Williams, M, Studer, S (2024)

    A growing number of inter- and transdisciplinary (ITD) toolkits provide methods, processes, concepts, heuristics, frameworks, and other resources for designing and implementing ITD research. A brief overview of the currently fragmented toolkits landscape is provided, fleshed out through descriptions of four toolkits.

  • Gaia Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

    Two decades of transdisciplinarity in Switzerland: Past, present, future

    Paulsen, T, Küffer, C (2023)

    Switzerland has been a stronghold of transdisciplinarity in the past decades, thanks in particular to saguf and td-net. td-net’s 20 years anniversary is an opportunity to recall the past and look ahead.

  • Network for Transdisciplinary Research td-net

    Gaia Editorial: Building a transdisciplinary future: Balancing collaboration and excellence

    "Everything must change so that everything can stay the same.” This quote from the novel The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa sums up the challenges of our time. Amidst an era of rapid change and social paradigm shifts, rethinking and renegotiating the social contract between science and society is more urgent than ever.

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