Enabling Transformative Research: Lessons from the Eastern and Southern Africa Partnership Programme (1999-2015)

Abstract: World leaders at the 2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York have reconfirmed the relevance of sustainability as the guiding paradigm in countering the development and climate crisis of the Anthropocene. Recent decades however, have been characterized by confusion, contestations, and arbitrariness in defining the nature and pathways of sustainable development. Humanity must urgently find ways to unlock the potential of the sustainability paradigm and organize a sustainability transformation. An emerging sustainability science community has already established considerable consensus on essential features of transformative science and research. Sustainability scholars are providing growing evidence that an emancipatory and democratic construction of sustainable development and more equitable, deliberative, and democratized knowledge generation are pivotal in tackling sustainability challenges. These findings are further underpinned by experiences gained in the

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Challenges in Sustainability ; 5 (2017) 1 ; 15-23

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2017
Creator
Ott, Cordula

DOI
10.12924/cis2017.05010015
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019052010571055539318
Rights
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Ott, Cordula

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  • 2017

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