Synthesis

Häberli, Rudolf; Bill, Alain; Grossenbacher-Mansuy, Walter; Klein, Julie Thompson; Scholz, Roland W.; Welti, Myrtha

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“…Wiesman [13] states: "Collaboration between science and society in transdisciplinary research implies participatory processes". Häberli [16] underlines the involvement of local stakeholders and state: "The core idea of transdisciplinarity is, different academic disciplines working jointly with practitioners to solve a real-world problem. It can be applied in a great variety of fields."…”

Section: 'Transdisciplinary' Versus 'Participatory' Research With Stamentioning

confidence: 99%

Redrawing Soil Salinity Innovation-Focused Stakeholder Interaction for Sustainable Land Management in Khorezm Province, Uzbekistan

Акрамханов¹,

Hassan

Hornidge

2018

Water

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Addressing soil salinity in irrigated drylands is tightly linked with water and land management decisions thus requiring interdisciplinary engagement. The salinity mapping approaches in Central Asia are undertaken through field sampling and laboratory analysis, which is a time consuming process. As a consequence, salinity maps are not available on time to estimate water requirements to cope with varying levels of soil salinity. Reducing the time lag between assessment and delivery of such maps would enable authorities to determine in advance appropriate water volumes for leaching the salts before and during the growing season. Research initiated in Uzbekistan context explored transdisciplinary and participatory approach to innovation development with local stakeholders. As one of the innovations, an electromagnetic induction meter (EM), a tool for rapid salinity assessment, was chosen and jointly with local salinity mapping related institutions tested, validated, and local capacities for its use developed. This paper redraws this process of innovation-focused stakeholder interaction and transdisciplinary research and discusses it with reference to ongoing debates on participatory and/or transdisciplinary innovation research. The existence of strong path dependencies within implementation oriented organizations could be observed, meaning that the innovation demands many changes to the existing system. Furthermore, the encountered challenges of participatory, transdisciplinary research in the hierarchically shaped setting of post-soviet Uzbekistan are illustrated in selected qualitative field notes and assessed. For improved joint learning and research in a transdisciplinary team, feedback cycles of mutual learning and critical reflection of how to theoretically and practically work in a transdisciplinary manner turned out to be crucial and not to be underestimated.

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Section: 'Transdisciplinary' Versus 'Participatory' Research With Stamentioning

confidence: 99%

Redrawing Soil Salinity Innovation-Focused Stakeholder Interaction for Sustainable Land Management in Khorezm Province, Uzbekistan

Акрамханов¹,

Hassan

Hornidge

2018

Water

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“…Interdisciplinary research, though becoming ever more important in thematic research programmes, may be perceived to challenge established scientific quality criteria. This holds even more so for transdisciplinary research, that in some interpretations leaves the disciplinary commitments behind altogether and embraces a radical problem based approach where even lay knowledge may be treated as equally important as scientific knowledge (see for instance Häberli et al 2001 , p. 7). If interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary ELSA research is perceived as lacking in scientific quality this might retract from its legitimacy (see e.g.…”

Section: Building Pragmatic Moral and Cognitive Legitimacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutionalising ELSA in the moment of breakdown?

Forsberg

2014

Life Sci Soc Policy

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This article discusses outcomes of a dialogue conference on ‘The road ahead for ELSA in Norway: Issues of quality, influence and network cooperation’ held in Oslo in December 2012. Norwegian researchers in the field of ethical, legal and social aspects of technologies (ELSA) were invited to discuss conceptual and strategic issues, as well as the setup of a researcher network. In the article I take an institutionalist approach and discuss challenges in institutionalising an ELSA network at a time when a designated ELSA funding programme is coming to an end. The research question is how the Norwegian ELSA network can succeed as a persistent network in times of greater uncertainties. The article claims that the network needs to gain legitimacy, outlines different dimensions of legitimacy and interprets the conference discussions in light of these dimensions. Central challenges and success factors facing the ELSA network are discussed and the article concludes with reflections on the potential future of ELSA in Norway. Although the article has a Norwegian context, the discussions in the article are likely to be relevant for researchers all across Europe, as similar developments are taking place also elsewhere in the European research funding context.

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“…Another interpretation of transdisciplinarity requires a transcendence of disciplinary boundaries within academia by employing new strategies for the construction of knowledge. Haberli et al. (2001) define transdisciplinarity as ‘a new form of learning and problem‐solving’, and Klein describes transdisciplinary approaches as…”

Section: Interdisciplinary Knowledge Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The emergence of interdisciplinary knowledge in problem‐focused research

Wesselink

2009

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In this paper I explore the specific properties associated with the new knowledge produced by inter‐ or transdisciplinary research. Using my analysis of a land use planning study in the Meuse valley in The Netherlands, I argue that the process of knowledge integration requires the exercise of value judgement and that the outcomes are emergent. I also show that the selection of a boundary object as objective facilitates interdisciplinary research because it is shared amongst disciplines and because it necessitates judgement in its implementation.

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Synthesis

Cited by 42 publications

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Redrawing Soil Salinity Innovation-Focused Stakeholder Interaction for Sustainable Land Management in Khorezm Province, Uzbekistan

Redrawing Soil Salinity Innovation-Focused Stakeholder Interaction for Sustainable Land Management in Khorezm Province, Uzbekistan

Institutionalising ELSA in the moment of breakdown?

The emergence of interdisciplinary knowledge in problem‐focused research

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