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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
Part of the book series: Schwerpunktprogramm Umwelt Programme Prioritaire Environnement Priority Programme Environment (SPP)
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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.
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Keynote Addresses
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Interactive Sessions
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The Swiss Transdisciplinarity Award
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transdisciplinarity: Joint Problem Solving among Science, Technology, and Society
Book Subtitle: An Effective Way for Managing Complexity
Editors: Julie Thompson Klein, Rudolf Häberli, Roland W. Scholz, Walter Grossenbacher-Mansuy, Alain Bill, Myrtha Welti
Series Title: Schwerpunktprogramm Umwelt Programme Prioritaire Environnement Priority Programme Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8419-8
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-6248-5Published: 01 December 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-9559-0Published: 20 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-8419-8Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 332
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Biotechnology, Medicine/Public Health, general