The real type and ideal type of transdisciplinary processes: part I—theoretical foundations

Sustainability Science

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 527-544

  Scholz, Roland W ^a,b   Steiner, Gerald ^c,d  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTERFACIAL ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY IGB   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge integration; Mode 1 transdisciplinarity; Mode 2 transdisciplinarity; Sustainability learning; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942833084     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-015-0326-4     Document Type: Article

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