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List of contents
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
About the author
Martina Padmanabhan is W3 Chair of Comparative Development and Cultural Studies - Southeast Asia, University of Passau, Germany
Summary
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.
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Sustainability can neither be understood nor realized without transdisciplinarity. In this collection of outstanding contribution by a stellar cast of international scholars and practitioners, Dr. Padmanabhan brilliantly demonstrates how sustainability science researchers and practitioners can speak to and learn from each other. This model of integrative work will prove to be of lasting and immense value.
Arun Agrawal is a Professor at the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan, USA
Co-design, co-production and co-dissemination are often applied in transdisciplinary research, but still lacks methodological clarity in practise. The volume offers outstanding research from German speaking countries that can further elucidate the implementation of these concepts. It clearly demonstrates that power, gender and culture must be considered carefully to establish transdisciplinarity as emancipatory force."
Christoph Görg, Professor of Social Ecology, Alpen-Adria Universtät Wien, Austria
