Sustainability as a Concept in the Social Sciences
In this project, representatives from 11 countries contributed jointly on the concept of sustainability in the social sciences. The aim was to initiate an international process of discussion and reflection. One aspect concerned how to go about formulating sustainability as a viable, transdisciplinary social science concept. The other main concern was the extent of reorientation required in the social sciences in order to conduct interdisciplinary, problem- and actor-related sustainability research.
Funding
MOST-programme (Management of Social Transformations) of UNESCO, Paris
Duration
1995/01
– 1997/12
Contact person
+49 69 7076919-0
Project team
Research focus
Transdisciplinary Methods and ConceptsRelated projects
- Biodiversity and Climate: Socio-ecological Biodiversity Research
- Capital4Health – Transdisciplinary research for preventive healthcare
- Concept for the Framework Programme "Social-ecological Research" SÖF
- Dilemmas of sustainability – Meta-criteria for sustainability
- Effective policy advice through sustainability research
- Evalunet - Evaluation Network for Transdisciplinary Research
- Exploratory Studies on SÖF
- Forecasts of Social-Ecological Transformations
- IMPACT – Corporate Social Responsibility in the EU
- Knowledge Communication
- Knowledge transfer of the results of basic scientific research
- Optimisation of the T-Net-Box
- Scientific Back-Up for the Research Project EPSECC
- Scientific research support for the Trialogue on Germany’s “Energiewende” of the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA School of Governance
- Social Dimensions of Sustainability
- Support for the Projects for Sustainable Economies
- tdPrax – Strengthening the Practice of Transdisciplinarity
- tdPrax2 – transdisciplinary concepts and methods for research and higher education
- Transdisciplinarity in biodiversity research
- Transdisciplinary Cognitive Integration
- Transdisziplinary Integration - Cooperation and Concepts