Transdisciplinary Research and Sustainability: Collaboration, Innovation and Transformation

ISBN-13: 9780367890131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 314 str.

Martina Padmanabhan

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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