Science with society in the anthropocene

Ambio

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-12

  Seidl, Roman ^a   Brand, Fridolin Simon ^b   Stauffacher, Michael ^a   Krütli, Pius ^a   Le, Quang Bao ^a   Spörri, Andy ^a   Meylan, Grégoire ^a   Moser, Corinne ^a   González, Monica Berger ^a   Scholz, Roland Werner ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Zentralabteilung Organisation/KSE   (Germany)

^c not available   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Human environment systems; Local global scales; Science and society; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; KNOWLEDGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRANSFORMATION;

EID: 84872709844     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-012-0363-5     Document Type: Review

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