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Transdisciplinarity: Joint Problem Solving among Science, Technology, and Society

An Effective Way for Managing Complexity

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Julie Thompson Klein

    1. Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

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  2. Rudolf Häberli

    1. Swiss Priority Program Environment, Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern, Switzerland

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  3. Roland W. Scholz

    1. Natural and Social Science Interface, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

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  4. Walter Grossenbacher-Mansuy

    1. Swiss Priority Program Environment, Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern, Switzerland

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  5. Alain Bill

    1. ALSTOM Power Technology Ltd, Baden-Dattwil, Switzerland

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  6. Myrtha Welti

    1. Swiss Foundation Science et Cité, Bern, Switzerland

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  • COMPREHENSIVE SUMMARY AND SYNTHESIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRANSDISCIPLINARITY CONFERENCE HELD IN ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, FROM FEBRUARY 27 TO MARCH 1, 2000 CONTAINS THE TOP TEN CONTRIBUTIONS SELECTED BY THE JURY OF THE SWISS TRANSDISCIPLINARITY AWARD MOST UP-TO-DATE KNOWLEDGE BASE OF THE NEWLY FORMING INTERNATIONAL TRANSDISCIPLINARITY COMMUNITY

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Summary and Synthesis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Summary

      • Rudolf Häberli, Walter Grossenbacher-Mansuy, Julie Thompson Klein
      Pages 3-5

    3. Synthesis

      • Rudolf Häberli, Alain Bill, Walter Grossenbacher-Mansuy, Julie Thompson Klein, Roland W. Scholz, Myrtha Welti
      Pages 6-22

  3. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Why a Globalized World Needs Transdisciplinarity

      • Alain Bill, Julie Thompson Klein
      Pages 25-34

    3. The Discourse of Transdisciplinarity: An Expanding Global Field

      • Julie Thompson Klein
      Pages 35-44

  4. Keynote Addresses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. What Kind of Science Does our World Need Today and Tomorrow? A New Contract between Science and Society

      • Charles Kleiber
      Pages 47-58

    3. From Microscope to Kaleidoscope: Merging Fields of Vision

      • Rita Colwell, Robert Eisenstein
      Pages 59-66

    4. The Potential of Transdisciplinarity

      • Michael Gibbons, Helga Nowotny
      Pages 67-80

    5. The Responsibility of Science and Scientists

      • Richard Ernst
      Pages 81-93

    6. Mobilizing the Intellectual Capital of Universities

      • Uwe Schneidewind
      Pages 94-100

  5. Interactive Sessions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. The Dialogue Sessions

      • Julie Thompson Klein
      Pages 103-116

    3. The Mutual Learning Sessions

      • Roland W. Scholz
      Pages 117-129

    4. The Idea Market

      • Walter Grossenbacher-Mansuy
      Pages 130-137

  6. The Swiss Transdisciplinarity Award

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Introduction: Goals and Criteria of the Award

      • Heidi Diggelmann, Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, Johannes R. Randegger, Christian Smoliner
      Pages 141-146

    3. Final Awards

      • Egon Becker, Thomas Jahn, Diana Hummel, Immanuel Stiess, Peter Wehling, Bernhard Truffer et al.
      Pages 147-166
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What kind of science do we need today and tomorrow? In a game that knows no boundaries, a game that contaminates science, democracy and the market economy, how can we distinguish true needs from simple of fashion? How can we distinguish between necessity and fancy? whims How can we differentiate conviction from opinion? What is the meaning of this all? Where is the civilizing project? Where is the universal outlook of the minds that might be capable of counteracting the global reach of the market? Where is the common ground that links each of us to the other? We need the kind of science that can live up to this need for univer­ sality, the kind of science that can answer these questions. We need a new kind of knowledge, a new awareness that can bring about the creative destruction of certainties. Old ideas, dogmas, and out-dated paradigms must be destroyed in order to build new knowledge of a type that is more socially robust, more scientifically reliable, stable and above all better able to express our needs, values and dreams. What is more, this new kind of knowledge, which will be challenged in turn by ideas yet to come, will prove its true worth by demonstrating its capacity to dialogue with these ideas and grow with them.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

    Julie Thompson Klein

  • Swiss Priority Program Environment, Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern, Switzerland

    Rudolf Häberli, Walter Grossenbacher-Mansuy

  • Natural and Social Science Interface, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

    Roland W. Scholz

  • ALSTOM Power Technology Ltd, Baden-Dattwil, Switzerland

    Alain Bill

  • Swiss Foundation Science et Cité, Bern, Switzerland

    Myrtha Welti

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