An actor-specific guideline for quality assurance in transdisciplinary research

Futures

Volumn 65, Issue , 2015, Pages 195-208

  Jahn, Thomas ^a,c   Keil, Florian ^b  

^a Institute for Social Ecological Research ISOE   (Germany)

^b Keep it balanced   (Germany)

^c BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Quality assurance; Research process; Sustainable development; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE; POLICY MAKING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84923045815     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2014.10.015     Document Type: Article

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