Case studies: ecology, migration, social inequality, ethics

Case studies, and in particular transdisciplinary case study, are a powerful tool for teaching and research on complex […] problems to conduct individual, organizational, and societal sustainability learning – Roland W. Scholz et al.

Sustainability

Angelstam, Per et al. 2013. ‘Solving Problems in Social–Ecological Systems: Definition, Practice and Barriers of Transdisciplinary Research’. AMBIO 42(2): 254–65.

Byrne, Edmond, Gerard Mullaly, Colin Sage. 2016. ‘Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability’. London: Routledge.

Di Iacovo, Francesco, Roberta Moruzzo, Cristiano M. Rossignoli, and Paola Scarpellini. 2016. ‘Measuring the Effects of Transdisciplinary Research: The Case of a Social Farming Project’. Futures 75: 24–35.

Djenontin, Ida Nadia S., and Alison M. Meadow. 2018. ‘The Art of Co-Production of Knowledge in Environmental Sciences and Management: Lessons from International Practice’. Environmental Management 61(6): 885–903.

Felt, Ulrike, Judith Igelsböck, Andrea Schikowitz, and Thomas Völker. 2016. ‘Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research in Practice: Between Imaginaries of Collective Experimentation and Entrenched Academic Value Orders’. Science, Technology, & Human Values 41(4): 732–761.

Goven, Joanna et al. 2015. ‘A Transdisciplinary Approach to Local Waste Management in New Zealand: Addressing Interrelated Challenges through Indigenous Partnership’. Futures 73: 22–36.

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina, et al. 2015 ‘Follow the Innovation – Transdisciplinary Innovation Research in Khorezm, Uzbekistan Section’. In: Restructuring land allocation, water use and agricultural value chains: Technologies, policies and practices for the lower Amudarya region. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, pp. 341–362.

Hurni, Hands, Urs Wiesmann. 2014. ‘Transdisciplinarity in Practice. Experience from a Concept-based Research Programme Addressing Global Change and Sustainable Development’. GAIA 23(3): 275-277.

Kläy, Andreas, Anne B. Zimmermann, and Flurina Schneider. 2015. ‘Rethinking Science for Sustainable Development: Reflexive Interaction for a Paradigm Transformation’. Futures 65: 72–85.

Mauser, Wolfram et al. 2013. ‘Transdisciplinary Global Change Research: The Co-Creation of Knowledge for Sustainability’. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 5(3–4): 420–31.

Nguyen, Kien V. et al. 2019. ‘Knowledge Co-Production for Recovering Wetlands, Agro-Ecological Framing and Livelihoods in the Mekong Region’. In: Development and Climate Change in the Mekong Region: Case Studies. Selangor: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, pp. 9-34.

Ruppert-Winkel, Chantal et al. 2015. ‘Characteristics, Emerging Needs, and Challenges of Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science: Experiences from the German Social-Ecological Research Program’. Ecology and Society 20(3). 

Schmidt, Laura, and Michael Pröpper. 2017. ‘Transdisciplinarity as a real-world challenge: a case study on a North–South collaboration‘. Sustain Sci (2017) 12:365–379

Schuttenberg, H. Z., and Heidi K. Guth. 2015. ‘Seeking Our Shared Wisdom: A Framework for Understanding Knowledge Coproduction and Coproductive Capacities’. Ecology and Society 20(1). 

Thompson, Mary Anne et al. 2017. ‘Scientist and Stakeholder Perspectives of Transdisciplinary Research: Early Attitudes, Expectations, and Tensions’. Environmental Science & Policy 74: 30–39.

Thompson Klein, Julie. 2016. ‘Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability: Patterns of Definition’. In Transdisciplinary Research and Practice for Sustainability Outcomes, London: Routledge, 7–21.

Woltersdorf, Laura, Petra Lang, Petra Döll. 2018. ‘How to set up a transdisciplinary research project in Central Asia: description and evaluation’. Sustainability Science (2019) 14: 697-711

Zscheischler, Jana, and Sebastian Rogga. 2015. ‘Transdisciplinarity in Land Use Science – A Review of Concepts, Empirical Findings and Current Practices’. Futures 65: 28–44.

Migration

Nagar, Richa, and Frah Ali. 2003. ‘Collaboration Across Borders: Moving Beyond Positionality’. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 24(3): 356–72.

Pratt, Geraldine in Collaboration with the Philippine Women Center. 2005. In Nelson, Lise & Seager, Joni (eds.)  A Companion to Feminist Geography. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing

Social Inequality

Du Plessis, Hester, Jeffrey Sehume, and Leonard Martin. 2013. ‘Trandisciplinarity and the Need for Social Justice’. In The Concept and Application of Transdisciplinarity in Intellectual Discourse and Research, Johannesburg: Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, 127–54.

Faschingeder, et al. 2012. ‘Soziale Ungleichheit und Kulturelle Vielfalt in europäischen Städten. Dokumentation des transdiziplinären Symposiums am 14./15. Oktober 2010‘. Aktion & Reflektion 7. Wien: Paulo Freire Zentrum.

Miciukiewicz, Konrad et al. 2012. ‘Introduction: Problematising Urban Social Cohesion: A Transdisciplinary Endeavour’. Urban Studies 49(9): 1855–72.

Ethics

Austin, Wendy, Caroline Park, and Erika Goble. 2008. ‘From Interdisciplinary to Transdisciplinary Research: A Case Study’. Qualitative Health Research 18(4): 557–64.

Pratt, G. 2000. Research Performances. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 18(5), 639–650. https://doi.org/10.1068/d218t

Tobias, Silvia, Maarit F. Ströbele, Tobias Buser. 2019. ‘How transdisciplinary projects influence participants’ ways of thinking: a case study on future landscape development’. Sustainability Science 14: 405-419.

Gender

Messing, Jill T., Madelaine Adelman, Alesha Durfee. 2012. ‘Gender Violence and Transdisciplinarity’. Violence Against Women 18(6): 641-652.

Pratt, Geraldine in Collaboration with the Philippine Women Center. 2005. In Nelson, Lise & Seager, Joni (eds.) A Companion to Feminist Geography. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing

Miscellaneous

Krohn, Wolfgang 2008. ‘Learning from Case Studies’. In Handbook of Transdisciplinary Research, Berlin: Springer, 369-383.