TY - JOUR
T1 - Transdisciplinary global change research
T2 - The co-creation of knowledge for sustainability
AU - Mauser, Wolfram
AU - Klepper, Gernot
AU - Rice, Martin
AU - Schmalzbauer, Bettina Susanne
AU - Hackmann, Heide
AU - Leemans, Rik
AU - Moore, Howard
PY - 2013/9
Y1 - 2013/9
N2 - The challenges formulated within the Future Earth framework set the orientation for research programmes in sustainability science for the next ten years. Scientific disciplines from natural and social science will collaborate both among each other and with relevant societal groups in order to define the important integrated research questions, and to explore together successful pathways towards global sustainability. Such collaboration will be based on transdisciplinarity and integrated research concepts. This paper analyses the relationship between scientific integration and transdisciplinarity, discusses the dimensions of integration of different knowledge and proposes a platform and a paradigm for research towards global sustainability that will be both designed and conducted in partnership between science and society. We argue that integration is an iterative process that involves reflection among all stakeholders. It consists of three stages: co-design, co-production and co-dissemination.
AB - The challenges formulated within the Future Earth framework set the orientation for research programmes in sustainability science for the next ten years. Scientific disciplines from natural and social science will collaborate both among each other and with relevant societal groups in order to define the important integrated research questions, and to explore together successful pathways towards global sustainability. Such collaboration will be based on transdisciplinarity and integrated research concepts. This paper analyses the relationship between scientific integration and transdisciplinarity, discusses the dimensions of integration of different knowledge and proposes a platform and a paradigm for research towards global sustainability that will be both designed and conducted in partnership between science and society. We argue that integration is an iterative process that involves reflection among all stakeholders. It consists of three stages: co-design, co-production and co-dissemination.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84884532033&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2013.07.001
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2013.07.001
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84884532033
SN - 1877-3435
VL - 5
SP - 420
EP - 431
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
IS - 3-4
ER -