| Transdisciplinarity: Joint Problem Solving Among Science, Technology, and Society: An Effective Way for Managing Complexity 2001 Edition Contributor(s): Thompson Klein, J. (Editor), Grossenbacher-Mansuy, W. (Editor), Häberli, R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3764362480 ISBN-13: 9783764362485 Publisher: Birkhauser OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2000 Annotation: Transdisciplinarity is a new approach to research and problem solving. The core idea is that researchers, practitioners and stakeholders must cooperate in order to address the complex challenges of society. The International Transdisciplinarity Conference, held in Switzerland in early 2000, produced a platform of theory and practice. This book contains definitions, keynote addresses, summaries of sessions and panels, and names recipients of the Swiss Transdisciplinarity Award. Key topics include the nature of transdisciplinarity, research management, knowledge integration, mutual learning, teamwork and stakeholder involvement, guidelines for good practice, institutional structures, North-South partnerships, and evaluation. The audience includes all disciplinary and interdisciplinary researchers concerned with sustainability and practitioners and stakeholders in a wide variety of areas (energy, natural resources, urban and landscape planning, waste management, biotechnology, health care, and education)... |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Research - Social Science | Human Geography - Science | Research & Methodology |
| Dewey: 610 |
| LCCN: 00048601 |
| Series: Spp Umwelt Synthesebucher Series |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.44" W x 9.56" (1.41 lbs) 332 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What kind of science do we need today and tomorrow? In a game that knows no boundaries, a game that contaminates science, democracy and the market economy, how can we distinguish true needs from simple of fashion? How can we distinguish between necessity and fancy? whims How can we differentiate conviction from opinion? What is the meaning of this all? Where is the civilizing project? Where is the universal outlook of the minds that might be capable of counteracting the global reach of the market? Where is the common ground that links each of us to the other? We need the kind of science that can live up to this need for univer- sality, the kind of science that can answer these questions. We need a new kind of knowledge, a new awareness that can bring about the creative destruction of certainties. Old ideas, dogmas, and out-dated paradigms must be destroyed in order to build new knowledge of a type that is more socially robust, more scientifically reliable, stable and above all better able to express our needs, values and dreams. What is more, this new kind of knowledge, which will be challenged in turn by ideas yet to come, will prove its true worth by demonstrating its capacity to dialogue with these ideas and grow with them. |