Global Sustainability Cultural Perspectives and Challenges for Transdisciplinary Integrated Research /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Werlen, Benno (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Natural disasters.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Ecosystems.; Sustainable development.; Human geography.; Social Sciences.; Human Geography.; Sustainable Development.; Natural Hazards.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

This book offers new perspectives of transdisciplinary research, in methodological as well as theoretical respects. It provides insights in the two-fold bio-physical and the socio-cultural global embeddedness of local living conditions on the basis of selected empirical studies from Latin America, A...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction; Benno Werlen
• Preface: Speech at TIERS Conference in Jena on 8 June 2012; Matthias Machnig
• PART I: INTEGRATED TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
• Chapter 1: Sustainability and Territory: An Approach from the Perspective of the Imaginary in Shaping Development; Enrique Aliste
• Chapter 2: Challenges for Transdisciplinary Research; Joske Bunders
• Chapter 3: Narratives for a Sustainable Future. Vision and Motivation for Collective Action; Ilan Chabay
• PART II: KNOWLEDGE
• Chapter 4: Carving a Niche for the Social Sciences in Trans-disciplinary Research on Climate Change Adaptation and Agriculture in Southern Africa; Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya
• Chapter 5: From Co-Production of Knowledge to Transdisciplinary Research. Lessons from the Quest for Producing Socially Robust Knowledge; Juergen Weichselgartner and Bernhard Truffer
• PART III: INTERFACES SOCIETY NATURE
• Chapter 6: Terrestrial Ecosystems Dynamic in the Senegalese Agro-silvopastoral Center-east in the Second Half of the XXe Century; Aliou Dijouf and Matthew G. Hatvany
• Chapter 7: Integrated Global Change Research in West Africa: Flood Vulnerability Studies; Ibidun Adelekan
• Chapter 8: Integrated Approach in Environment Management: Context Bangladesh; Raquib Ahmed
• Chapter 9: Awareness of and Responses to the 2011 Flood Warnings among Vulnerable Communities in Lagos, Nigeria; Olokesusi, F., Olorunfemi, F.B., Onwuemele A. and Oke, M.O
• PART IV: INTERFACES SCIENCE POLICY
• Chapter 10: Solution-Based Spatial Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation to Climate Change in Taiwan; Yu-Fang Lin
• Chapter 11: Institutions and Planning: A Reflection from the Disaster Management Planning in Indonesia; Hendricus A Simarmata and Raka W Suryandaru
• Chapter 12: Could the Search for Sustainability Reinforce the Socio-ecological Conflict? The Mining Industry in Chile and its Impact at the Local and Regional Level; Fernando Campos-Medina
• Chapter 13: Institutions and Planning: A Reflection from Disaster Management Planning in Indonesia; Hendricus A. Simarmata and Raka W. Suryandaru
• Chapter 14: Could the Search for Sustainability Reinforce the Socio-ecological Conflict? The Mining Industry in Chile and its Impact at the Local and Regional Level; Fernando Campos-Medina
• Chapter 15: Political decision-making and Scientific Insights. A comment form the Political Arena; Matthias Machnig.