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Transdisciplinary Research and Sustainability

Collaboration, Innovation and Transformation

Transdisciplinary Research and Sustainability

Collaboration, Innovation and Transformation

Edited ByMartina Padmanabhan
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 12 October 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315441481
Pages 334 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315441474
SubjectsDevelopment Studies, Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
KeywordsTransdisciplinary Research, Social Ecological Research, Transdisciplinary Research Projects, Practice Partners, Sustainability Science
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Padmanabhan, M. (Ed.). (2018). Transdisciplinary Research and Sustainability. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315441481
ABOUT THIS BOOK

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 volumewill appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Sustainability Science, Transdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy of Science.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|32 pages
Introduction
Transdisciplinarity for sustainability
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract
part I|50 pages
Understanding sustainability science as challenge and necessity
chapter 2|18 pages
A transdisciplinary approach to the process of socio-technical transformation
The case of German Energiewende
ByArmin Grunwald
View abstract
chapter 3|13 pages
Real-world laboratories as an institutionalisation of the new social contract between science and society 1
ByMandy Singer-Brodowski, Matthias Wanner, Uwe Schneidewind
View abstract
chapter 4|17 pages
Transdisciplinarity in social-ecological research
Constraints, challenges and opportunities: reflections on personal experience
BySabine Hofmeister
View abstract
part II|68 pages
Cooperating with partners of practice
chapter 5|26 pages
From the plurality of transdisciplinarity to concrete transdisciplinary methods
The case of PoNa and its dialogue with practitioners on a picture discourse analysis
ByDaniela Gottschlich, Jedrzej Sulmowski
View abstract
chapter 6|23 pages
Social learning videos
A method for successful collaboration between science and practice
ByPatricia Fry
View abstract
chapter 7|17 pages
Developing landscape scenarios and identifying local management options
Outcomes and evaluation of a participatory approach in the Swabian Alb, Germany
ByClaudia Bieling, Holger Gerdes, Bettina Ohnesorge, Tobias Plieninger, Harald Schaich, Christian Schleyer, Kathrin Trommler, Franziska Wolff
View abstract
part III|67 pages
Pursuing methodological innovations for transdisciplinarity
chapter 8|18 pages
This is the case (study) – so what? Reflections on a constitutive tension in sustainability science
ByRafael Ziegler
View abstract
chapter 9|20 pages
Facilitating change
Methodologies for collaborative learning with stakeholders
ByAnja Christinck, Brigitte Kaufmann
View abstract
chapter 10|27 pages
Dream team or evil twins? International tandems in transdisciplinary research
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract
part IV|89 pages
Policy interface
Creating dialogues with policy makers220
chapter 11|20 pages
Die Landforscher
Independent researchers networking for sustainable agriculture
ByAndrea Fink-Keßler, Karin Jürgens
View abstract
chapter 12|26 pages
Prospective scenario planning in collaborative transdisciplinary research
ByIngo Neumann, Sonja Deppisch
View abstract
chapter 13|23 pages
Challenging futures – concepts for engaging with dynamics of policy instrument design
ByCarsten Mann, Jan-Peter Voß
View abstract
chapter 14|18 pages
Outlook
The future of transdisciplinarity
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract

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 volumewill appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Sustainability Science, Transdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy of Science.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|32 pages
Introduction
Transdisciplinarity for sustainability
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract
part I|50 pages
Understanding sustainability science as challenge and necessity
chapter 2|18 pages
A transdisciplinary approach to the process of socio-technical transformation
The case of German Energiewende
ByArmin Grunwald
View abstract
chapter 3|13 pages
Real-world laboratories as an institutionalisation of the new social contract between science and society 1
ByMandy Singer-Brodowski, Matthias Wanner, Uwe Schneidewind
View abstract
chapter 4|17 pages
Transdisciplinarity in social-ecological research
Constraints, challenges and opportunities: reflections on personal experience
BySabine Hofmeister
View abstract
part II|68 pages
Cooperating with partners of practice
chapter 5|26 pages
From the plurality of transdisciplinarity to concrete transdisciplinary methods
The case of PoNa and its dialogue with practitioners on a picture discourse analysis
ByDaniela Gottschlich, Jedrzej Sulmowski
View abstract
chapter 6|23 pages
Social learning videos
A method for successful collaboration between science and practice
ByPatricia Fry
View abstract
chapter 7|17 pages
Developing landscape scenarios and identifying local management options
Outcomes and evaluation of a participatory approach in the Swabian Alb, Germany
ByClaudia Bieling, Holger Gerdes, Bettina Ohnesorge, Tobias Plieninger, Harald Schaich, Christian Schleyer, Kathrin Trommler, Franziska Wolff
View abstract
part III|67 pages
Pursuing methodological innovations for transdisciplinarity
chapter 8|18 pages
This is the case (study) – so what? Reflections on a constitutive tension in sustainability science
ByRafael Ziegler
View abstract
chapter 9|20 pages
Facilitating change
Methodologies for collaborative learning with stakeholders
ByAnja Christinck, Brigitte Kaufmann
View abstract
chapter 10|27 pages
Dream team or evil twins? International tandems in transdisciplinary research
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract
part IV|89 pages
Policy interface
Creating dialogues with policy makers220
chapter 11|20 pages
Die Landforscher
Independent researchers networking for sustainable agriculture
ByAndrea Fink-Keßler, Karin Jürgens
View abstract
chapter 12|26 pages
Prospective scenario planning in collaborative transdisciplinary research
ByIngo Neumann, Sonja Deppisch
View abstract
chapter 13|23 pages
Challenging futures – concepts for engaging with dynamics of policy instrument design
ByCarsten Mann, Jan-Peter Voß
View abstract
chapter 14|18 pages
Outlook
The future of transdisciplinarity
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract
CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK

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 volumewill appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Sustainability Science, Transdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy of Science.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|32 pages
Introduction
Transdisciplinarity for sustainability
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract
part I|50 pages
Understanding sustainability science as challenge and necessity
chapter 2|18 pages
A transdisciplinary approach to the process of socio-technical transformation
The case of German Energiewende
ByArmin Grunwald
View abstract
chapter 3|13 pages
Real-world laboratories as an institutionalisation of the new social contract between science and society 1
ByMandy Singer-Brodowski, Matthias Wanner, Uwe Schneidewind
View abstract
chapter 4|17 pages
Transdisciplinarity in social-ecological research
Constraints, challenges and opportunities: reflections on personal experience
BySabine Hofmeister
View abstract
part II|68 pages
Cooperating with partners of practice
chapter 5|26 pages
From the plurality of transdisciplinarity to concrete transdisciplinary methods
The case of PoNa and its dialogue with practitioners on a picture discourse analysis
ByDaniela Gottschlich, Jedrzej Sulmowski
View abstract
chapter 6|23 pages
Social learning videos
A method for successful collaboration between science and practice
ByPatricia Fry
View abstract
chapter 7|17 pages
Developing landscape scenarios and identifying local management options
Outcomes and evaluation of a participatory approach in the Swabian Alb, Germany
ByClaudia Bieling, Holger Gerdes, Bettina Ohnesorge, Tobias Plieninger, Harald Schaich, Christian Schleyer, Kathrin Trommler, Franziska Wolff
View abstract
part III|67 pages
Pursuing methodological innovations for transdisciplinarity
chapter 8|18 pages
This is the case (study) – so what? Reflections on a constitutive tension in sustainability science
ByRafael Ziegler
View abstract
chapter 9|20 pages
Facilitating change
Methodologies for collaborative learning with stakeholders
ByAnja Christinck, Brigitte Kaufmann
View abstract
chapter 10|27 pages
Dream team or evil twins? International tandems in transdisciplinary research
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract
part IV|89 pages
Policy interface
Creating dialogues with policy makers220
chapter 11|20 pages
Die Landforscher
Independent researchers networking for sustainable agriculture
ByAndrea Fink-Keßler, Karin Jürgens
View abstract
chapter 12|26 pages
Prospective scenario planning in collaborative transdisciplinary research
ByIngo Neumann, Sonja Deppisch
View abstract
chapter 13|23 pages
Challenging futures – concepts for engaging with dynamics of policy instrument design
ByCarsten Mann, Jan-Peter Voß
View abstract
chapter 14|18 pages
Outlook
The future of transdisciplinarity
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract

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 volumewill appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Sustainability Science, Transdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy of Science.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|32 pages
Introduction
Transdisciplinarity for sustainability
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract
part I|50 pages
Understanding sustainability science as challenge and necessity
chapter 2|18 pages
A transdisciplinary approach to the process of socio-technical transformation
The case of German Energiewende
ByArmin Grunwald
View abstract
chapter 3|13 pages
Real-world laboratories as an institutionalisation of the new social contract between science and society 1
ByMandy Singer-Brodowski, Matthias Wanner, Uwe Schneidewind
View abstract
chapter 4|17 pages
Transdisciplinarity in social-ecological research
Constraints, challenges and opportunities: reflections on personal experience
BySabine Hofmeister
View abstract
part II|68 pages
Cooperating with partners of practice
chapter 5|26 pages
From the plurality of transdisciplinarity to concrete transdisciplinary methods
The case of PoNa and its dialogue with practitioners on a picture discourse analysis
ByDaniela Gottschlich, Jedrzej Sulmowski
View abstract
chapter 6|23 pages
Social learning videos
A method for successful collaboration between science and practice
ByPatricia Fry
View abstract
chapter 7|17 pages
Developing landscape scenarios and identifying local management options
Outcomes and evaluation of a participatory approach in the Swabian Alb, Germany
ByClaudia Bieling, Holger Gerdes, Bettina Ohnesorge, Tobias Plieninger, Harald Schaich, Christian Schleyer, Kathrin Trommler, Franziska Wolff
View abstract
part III|67 pages
Pursuing methodological innovations for transdisciplinarity
chapter 8|18 pages
This is the case (study) – so what? Reflections on a constitutive tension in sustainability science
ByRafael Ziegler
View abstract
chapter 9|20 pages
Facilitating change
Methodologies for collaborative learning with stakeholders
ByAnja Christinck, Brigitte Kaufmann
View abstract
chapter 10|27 pages
Dream team or evil twins? International tandems in transdisciplinary research
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract
part IV|89 pages
Policy interface
Creating dialogues with policy makers220
chapter 11|20 pages
Die Landforscher
Independent researchers networking for sustainable agriculture
ByAndrea Fink-Keßler, Karin Jürgens
View abstract
chapter 12|26 pages
Prospective scenario planning in collaborative transdisciplinary research
ByIngo Neumann, Sonja Deppisch
View abstract
chapter 13|23 pages
Challenging futures – concepts for engaging with dynamics of policy instrument design
ByCarsten Mann, Jan-Peter Voß
View abstract
chapter 14|18 pages
Outlook
The future of transdisciplinarity
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK

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 volumewill appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Sustainability Science, Transdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy of Science.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|32 pages
Introduction
Transdisciplinarity for sustainability
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract
part I|50 pages
Understanding sustainability science as challenge and necessity
chapter 2|18 pages
A transdisciplinary approach to the process of socio-technical transformation
The case of German Energiewende
ByArmin Grunwald
View abstract
chapter 3|13 pages
Real-world laboratories as an institutionalisation of the new social contract between science and society 1
ByMandy Singer-Brodowski, Matthias Wanner, Uwe Schneidewind
View abstract
chapter 4|17 pages
Transdisciplinarity in social-ecological research
Constraints, challenges and opportunities: reflections on personal experience
BySabine Hofmeister
View abstract
part II|68 pages
Cooperating with partners of practice
chapter 5|26 pages
From the plurality of transdisciplinarity to concrete transdisciplinary methods
The case of PoNa and its dialogue with practitioners on a picture discourse analysis
ByDaniela Gottschlich, Jedrzej Sulmowski
View abstract
chapter 6|23 pages
Social learning videos
A method for successful collaboration between science and practice
ByPatricia Fry
View abstract
chapter 7|17 pages
Developing landscape scenarios and identifying local management options
Outcomes and evaluation of a participatory approach in the Swabian Alb, Germany
ByClaudia Bieling, Holger Gerdes, Bettina Ohnesorge, Tobias Plieninger, Harald Schaich, Christian Schleyer, Kathrin Trommler, Franziska Wolff
View abstract
part III|67 pages
Pursuing methodological innovations for transdisciplinarity
chapter 8|18 pages
This is the case (study) – so what? Reflections on a constitutive tension in sustainability science
ByRafael Ziegler
View abstract
chapter 9|20 pages
Facilitating change
Methodologies for collaborative learning with stakeholders
ByAnja Christinck, Brigitte Kaufmann
View abstract
chapter 10|27 pages
Dream team or evil twins? International tandems in transdisciplinary research
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract
part IV|89 pages
Policy interface
Creating dialogues with policy makers220
chapter 11|20 pages
Die Landforscher
Independent researchers networking for sustainable agriculture
ByAndrea Fink-Keßler, Karin Jürgens
View abstract
chapter 12|26 pages
Prospective scenario planning in collaborative transdisciplinary research
ByIngo Neumann, Sonja Deppisch
View abstract
chapter 13|23 pages
Challenging futures – concepts for engaging with dynamics of policy instrument design
ByCarsten Mann, Jan-Peter Voß
View abstract
chapter 14|18 pages
Outlook
The future of transdisciplinarity
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract

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 volumewill appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Sustainability Science, Transdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy of Science.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|32 pages
Introduction
Transdisciplinarity for sustainability
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract
part I|50 pages
Understanding sustainability science as challenge and necessity
chapter 2|18 pages
A transdisciplinary approach to the process of socio-technical transformation
The case of German Energiewende
ByArmin Grunwald
View abstract
chapter 3|13 pages
Real-world laboratories as an institutionalisation of the new social contract between science and society 1
ByMandy Singer-Brodowski, Matthias Wanner, Uwe Schneidewind
View abstract
chapter 4|17 pages
Transdisciplinarity in social-ecological research
Constraints, challenges and opportunities: reflections on personal experience
BySabine Hofmeister
View abstract
part II|68 pages
Cooperating with partners of practice
chapter 5|26 pages
From the plurality of transdisciplinarity to concrete transdisciplinary methods
The case of PoNa and its dialogue with practitioners on a picture discourse analysis
ByDaniela Gottschlich, Jedrzej Sulmowski
View abstract
chapter 6|23 pages
Social learning videos
A method for successful collaboration between science and practice
ByPatricia Fry
View abstract
chapter 7|17 pages
Developing landscape scenarios and identifying local management options
Outcomes and evaluation of a participatory approach in the Swabian Alb, Germany
ByClaudia Bieling, Holger Gerdes, Bettina Ohnesorge, Tobias Plieninger, Harald Schaich, Christian Schleyer, Kathrin Trommler, Franziska Wolff
View abstract
part III|67 pages
Pursuing methodological innovations for transdisciplinarity
chapter 8|18 pages
This is the case (study) – so what? Reflections on a constitutive tension in sustainability science
ByRafael Ziegler
View abstract
chapter 9|20 pages
Facilitating change
Methodologies for collaborative learning with stakeholders
ByAnja Christinck, Brigitte Kaufmann
View abstract
chapter 10|27 pages
Dream team or evil twins? International tandems in transdisciplinary research
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract
part IV|89 pages
Policy interface
Creating dialogues with policy makers220
chapter 11|20 pages
Die Landforscher
Independent researchers networking for sustainable agriculture
ByAndrea Fink-Keßler, Karin Jürgens
View abstract
chapter 12|26 pages
Prospective scenario planning in collaborative transdisciplinary research
ByIngo Neumann, Sonja Deppisch
View abstract
chapter 13|23 pages
Challenging futures – concepts for engaging with dynamics of policy instrument design
ByCarsten Mann, Jan-Peter Voß
View abstract
chapter 14|18 pages
Outlook
The future of transdisciplinarity
ByMartina Padmanabhan
View abstract
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