Conceptualizing the transfer of knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary research

Sustainability Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 179-190

  Adler, Carolina ^a   Hirsch Hadorn, Gertrude ^a   Breu, Thomas ^b   Wiesmann, Urs ^b   Pohl, Christian ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Case study; Evidence based policy; Quality; Scalability; Transdisciplinary research; Transferability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020697300     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-017-0444-2     Document Type: Article

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