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Global Sustainability, Cultural Perspectives and Challenges for Transdisciplinary Integrated Research


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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.
About the Author: Prof. Dr. Benno Werlen holds the Chair of Social Geography in the Institute of Geography, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. He studied geography, cultural anthropology, sociology and economics at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) where he received his PhD in 1985 (published in English as 'Society, Action and Space', Routledge 1993) from the faculty of philosophy; the habilitation on "Sozialgeographie alltäglicher Regionalisierungen" (Social Geography of Everyday Regionalizations, 2 volumes) was accomplished at the faculty of natural sciences at the University of Zurich. He was a guest researcher at the University of Cambridge/UK, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the London School of Economics; was a visiting professor at the universities of Salzburg, Geneva and Nijmegen and is a Panel Member of the 'European Research Council/Brussels (Environment & Society)'. Since 2004 he holds the chair of the IGU Commission "Cultural Approach in Geography" and is the initiator and executive director of the IGU initiative for the UN International Year of Global Understanding 2016. Since 2012 he is listed as a key thinker of space and place' (Sage 2012). His research interests include the relationship between society and environment, the geographies of globalization and everyday regionalizations and the methodology of integrative research.


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  • ISBN-13: 9783319164762
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Depth: 25
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 300
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Cultural Perspectives and Challenges for Transdisciplinary Integrated Research
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 3319164767
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jun 2015
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: 2015 ed.
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 716 gr


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