How can transdisciplinary research contribute to knowledge democracy?

Knowledge Democracy: Consequences for Science, Politics, and Media

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 125-152

  Bunders, Joske F G ^a   Broerse, Jacqueline E W ^a   Keil, Florian ^b   Pohl, Christian ^c   Scholz, Roland W ^d   Zweekhorst, Marjolein B M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Institute for Social Ecological Research ISOE   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84857062119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11381-9_11     Document Type: Chapter

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1. http://www.oekom.de/etc/gaia.html, October 23rd 2009.
2. These include colleagues from the Communication and Innovation Studies Group of the Wageningen University, biotechnologists of many Dutch universities and research groups, NGOs and governments in developing countries, and after 1989 with the Netherlands Ministry for Development Cooperation.
3. "Interactive Bottom-up" (IBU) approach. These universities and further interested scholars have founded in 2002 the International Transdisciplinarity Network for Case Studies in Sustainable Development (http://www.uns.ethz.ch/translab/itdnet).
4. "International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education". In this network, experiences in transdisciplinarity are exchange and respective knowledge and expertise is further developed.
5. Visions can be described as mental images of attainable futures that are considered desirable and shared by a collection of actors.
6. A "frame of reference" can be viewed as a combined set of knowledge, norms and values and (societal) background by which people weigh, value and interpret new information.