Publications: Sustainability Research

An ethnoecological approach to dialogue between traditional and scientific ecological knowledge

Sebastien Boillat, 2007

PhD Thesis, University of Bern, Switzerland

This thesis has the overall goal of contributing to the development of the emerging approach of “nature-society hybrids” by setting the fundaments for a dialogue between the needs of biodiversity conservation and the needs and claims of indigenous and traditional people. It is based on the assumption that indigenous and traditional people may not be conservationists “by default”, because the concept of biodiversity conservation has emerged from a concern of modern science and global policy in the developed world that they do not share necessarily. Nevertheless, indigenous communities may have traditional land use practices that are at the same time deeply rooted in their traditional knowledge and specific cultural worldview, and highly relevant for the conservation of biodiversity. The main objective of the thesis was to analyze the links between traditional ecological knowledge, land use and the diversity of ecosystems, as a basis for the promotion of sustainable development, understood as results emerging from the dialogue between scientific and traditional ecological knowledge.

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Yvan Droz, Jean-Claude Lavigne, 2006

Paris, Karthala

Karl Herweg, Hans Hurni, Manfred Künzel, Stephan Rist, 2009

In: Darbellay F, Paulsen T, editors. Herausforderungen Inter- und Transdisziplinarität. Konzepte, Methoden und innovative Umsetzung in Lehre und Forschung. Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, p. 83-91

Margot Hill, Jose Furtado, Astrid Wallner, 2010

Climate Policy 10: 70-86.

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A Transdisciplinary Appraisal of Selected Regions of the World to Prepare Development-Oriented Research Partnerships

Hans Hurni, Roland Schertenleib, Urs Wiesmann, 2004

Bern, Geographica Bernensia

Hans Hurni, Thomas Breu, Eva Ludi, 2003

The Tajik Pamirs: Challenges of Sustainable Development in an Isolated Mountain Region: The present publication provides a summary of the outcomes of the Pamir Strategy Project (PSP). It portrays life in the Pamirs, along with development challenges and options, and presents practical and participatory approaches that can lead to sustainable mountain development. In addition, this publication outlines the lessons learnt within the PSP by presenting and evaluationg methods and apporaches such as participatory village studies, multi-level stakeholder workshops for strategy development, knowledge generation processes, and Geographic Information Systmes as decision support tools for sustainable mountain development.

In: Breu T, and Hurni H, editors. The Tajik Pamirs. Challenges of Sustainable Development in an Isolated Mountain Region. Bern: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, pp 49-53.

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Hans Hurni, Urs Wiesmann, 2004

In: Hurni H, Wiesmann U, Schertenleib R, editors. 2004. Research for Mitigating Syndromes of Global Change. A Transdisciplinary Appraisal of Selected Regions of the World to Prepare Development-Oriented Research Partnerships. Perspectives of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South, University of Berne, Vol. 1. Berne: Geographica Bernensia, pp. 31-42

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Karina Liechti, 2008

PhD Thesis, University of Bern, Switzerland

The thesis contributes to an improved understanding of how the ecological dimension becomes manifest in the negotiation of sustainable regional development, how meanings about an issue under negotiation are constructed, and whose ascribed meanings are decisive in concretising a way forward.

Pre-conference Proceedings. University of Bern, Switzerland, 2–4 July 2008

NCCR North-South, 2008

NCCR North-South Dialogue, No. 21

Christian Pohl, Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, 2007

Proposed by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences

This book is proposed by the transdisciplinarity-net, which is a project supported by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. It offers a means of designing transdisciplinary research. The tools presented here help structure the research process, in particular with a view to: adequately reducing the complexity of a problem field, taking into account the multiplicity of perspectives, embedding research into the social context, and adapting concepts and methods in the course of the research process. This publication shows how these tools can be used in the three phases of a transdisciplinary research process: identifying and structuring the problem, analyzing the problem and bringing results to fruition.

Available from: München, oekom verlag

Stephan Rist, 2009

In: Tropentag 2008 - International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development – Competition for Resources in a Changing World New Drive for Rural Development. Book of Abstracts, Univeristy of Hohenheim, Germany: Cuviller Verlag, Göttingen, pp 580.

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Stephan Rist, 2009

In: Delgado Burgoa JMF, Escobar Vásquez C, editors. Innovación tecnológica soberanía y seguridad alimentaría. La Paz, Bolivia: Editores Plural, pp 9-12

Thomas Röhricht, 2009

Master's thesis at University of Bern

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Flurina Schneider , Silvano Allensbach, Patricia Fry, Stephan Rist, 2009

Bulletin Arbeitsgruppe "Vollzugsbiologie" - Groupe de travail "Biologie du Sol - Application" 11: 12-14

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William D. Sunderlin, Arild Angelsen, Sonya Dewi, Michael Epprecht, Daniel Müller, Atie Puntodewo, 2009

Ecology and Society 13(2):24

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Escobar Vasquez, 2009

Revista COMPAS de Desarrollo Endógeno 12