... 199224. Flynn, J., Burns, W., Mertz, CK and Slovic, P. 1992. ... Environment and Planning A ,... more ... 199224. Flynn, J., Burns, W., Mertz, CK and Slovic, P. 1992. ... Environment and Planning A , 40(8): 1881900. [CrossRef], [Web of Science ®] View all references;Culley and Hughey 200817. Culley, MR and Hughey, J. 2008. ...
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2007
We document a two-year transdisciplinary project on the transition management processes of region... more We document a two-year transdisciplinary project on the transition management processes of regional clusters in textile, timber, and dairy industries in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. This canton is a rural prealpine area, which has been historically shaped by traditional industries and which lies in the vicinity of St Gallen in the Greater Zürich Area. Scientists and regional stakeholders collaboratively planned, assessed, and discussed how to realize cooperative business strategies in order to sustain a continued presence in their selected industry. 101 stakeholders participated in a project, which made use of the area development negotiations method. This systematic and analytical method involved (a) the construction of different regional business strategies and clustering variants through formative scenario analysis, (b) a multicriteria evaluation of these variants, and (c) a multi-stakeholder consensus process on different forms of horizontal and vertical cooperati...
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
PurposeThis paper aims at presenting the theoretical concepts of the transdisciplinary case study... more PurposeThis paper aims at presenting the theoretical concepts of the transdisciplinary case study approach (TCS), which is a research and teaching approach developed and elaborated at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), as a means of transition support.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reveals the historical roots of case studies, transdisciplinarity and sustainable development as teaching and research paradigms. The TCS approach is presented, which has been developed at ETH for supporting transition management of regional, urban, and organizational systems. This approach is entrenched by an ontology that reveals the basic characteristics of ill‐defined transition problems, an epistemology that refers to Probabilistic Functionalism and distinguishes between multi‐layered systemic and normative epistemics, a methodology that includes a set of methods for case representation (including modelling and projection), assessment, and strategy building, and a project manageme...
SUMMARY Twenty-one senior researchers were interviewed about their conception of sustainability a... more SUMMARY Twenty-one senior researchers were interviewed about their conception of sustainability and implementation in projects linked to the Alliance of Global Sustainability, a joint project of MIT (Boston), ETH (Zurich and Lausanne), UT (Tokyo), and Chalmers (Gothenburg).
... 199224. Flynn, J., Burns, W., Mertz, CK and Slovic, P. 1992. ... Environment and Planning A ,... more ... 199224. Flynn, J., Burns, W., Mertz, CK and Slovic, P. 1992. ... Environment and Planning A , 40(8): 1881900. [CrossRef], [Web of Science ®] View all references;Culley and Hughey 200817. Culley, MR and Hughey, J. 2008. ...
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2007
We document a two-year transdisciplinary project on the transition management processes of region... more We document a two-year transdisciplinary project on the transition management processes of regional clusters in textile, timber, and dairy industries in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. This canton is a rural prealpine area, which has been historically shaped by traditional industries and which lies in the vicinity of St Gallen in the Greater Zürich Area. Scientists and regional stakeholders collaboratively planned, assessed, and discussed how to realize cooperative business strategies in order to sustain a continued presence in their selected industry. 101 stakeholders participated in a project, which made use of the area development negotiations method. This systematic and analytical method involved (a) the construction of different regional business strategies and clustering variants through formative scenario analysis, (b) a multicriteria evaluation of these variants, and (c) a multi-stakeholder consensus process on different forms of horizontal and vertical cooperati...
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
PurposeThis paper aims at presenting the theoretical concepts of the transdisciplinary case study... more PurposeThis paper aims at presenting the theoretical concepts of the transdisciplinary case study approach (TCS), which is a research and teaching approach developed and elaborated at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), as a means of transition support.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reveals the historical roots of case studies, transdisciplinarity and sustainable development as teaching and research paradigms. The TCS approach is presented, which has been developed at ETH for supporting transition management of regional, urban, and organizational systems. This approach is entrenched by an ontology that reveals the basic characteristics of ill‐defined transition problems, an epistemology that refers to Probabilistic Functionalism and distinguishes between multi‐layered systemic and normative epistemics, a methodology that includes a set of methods for case representation (including modelling and projection), assessment, and strategy building, and a project manageme...
SUMMARY Twenty-one senior researchers were interviewed about their conception of sustainability a... more SUMMARY Twenty-one senior researchers were interviewed about their conception of sustainability and implementation in projects linked to the Alliance of Global Sustainability, a joint project of MIT (Boston), ETH (Zurich and Lausanne), UT (Tokyo), and Chalmers (Gothenburg).
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