Testing Analytical Frameworks in Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development

Research for Sustainable Development

Preface The advancing climate change is one of the most important and most urgent challenges of our time. However, the UN Climate Conference in Copenha-gen in December 2009 made clear how difficult it is to achieve an international agreement on binding climate protection goals. Germany has a pioneering role in climate research and climate modelling, in the development of strategies to adapt to ...

Transdisciplinary Synthesis and Cognition Frameworks

Many disciplines are wrought with high levels of uncertainty and many unknowns including transdisciplinary design. Hence, to achieve some advancement within a discipline, we must provide aids in achieving mitigation of complexity and increasing understanding. We achieve this by investigating beyond the boundaries of the existing discipline’s design concepts. This means stretching the boundaries...

Facing policy challenges with inter- and transdisciplinary soil research focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Our current information society, populated by increasingly well-informed and critical stakeholders, presents a challenge to both the policy and science arenas. The introduction of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offers a unique and welcome opportunity to direct joint activities towards these goals. Soil science, even though it is not mentioned as such, plays an important role in rea...

Science Policy for Transdisciplinary Research

Sustainable Tourism Development on La Digue Island, Republic of Seychelles Transdisciplinary methods for sustainable solutions in a tropical paradise

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