What Epistemology for Sustainability Science? Experiments and Theories for Social Transformation

Projekt: Forschung

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EPISUS is funded by a Horizon 2020/Marie Sklodowska-Curie Incoming Fellowship. The Fellow is Guido Caniglia from Italy. Leuphana is acting as host institution and Professor Daniel Lang as scientific mentor.
Project description:
Sustainability science is an innovative research field dealing with complex socio-ecological problems of our time, from climate change and rapid urbanization to pandemics and loss of biodiversity. A major goal for sustainability science is to support societal transformations towards sustainability by generating, testing, and integrating (1) system knowledge about sustainability problems, (2) target knowledge about desirable futures, and (3) transformational knowledge about effective interventions that can lead from the problems detected to the desirable futures. Thus far, epistemological work has focused primarily on the foundations of system and target knowledge and has neglected transformational knowledge. Therefore, a major task for an epistemology of sustainability science is now to understand how transformational knowledge is generated and tested. Because of the central role they play in transformational sustainability science, in EPISUS, Guido Caniglia takes transformational experiments as entrance point to develop an epistemology of transformational sustainability science. He asks: What kind of sustainability science do we need to generate and test transformational knowledge and what role can transformational experiments play in this science? In EPISUS, Guido Caniglia addresses this question by focusing on: 1. the main characteristics of transformational experiments, 2. the criteria used to evaluate experimental results and 3. the kind of theories that support, or could support, the production of transformational knowledge. He uses a research design that combines the investigation of concrete examples of transformational experiments and conceptual reflections using analytical tools from the philosophy of science. EPISUS will provide a new conceptualization of transformational experiments as well as categories for the further development of transformational approaches in sustainability science that are theoretically sound and evidence-based.
AkronymEPISUS
StatusAbgeschlossen
Zeitraum01.10.1730.09.19

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  1. Controlling consent
  2. Impact of anthropogenic input on physicochemical parameters and trace metals in marine surface sediments of Bay of Bengal off Chennai, India
  3. Variations on Klee’s Cosmographic Method
  4. A comparison of self-reports and electrodermal activity as indicators of mathematics state anxiety.
  5. Digitalization, new media, and education for sustainable development
  6. The hidden power of language
  7. The Values in Crisis Project
  8. History and progress of the generation of structural formulae in chemistry and its applications.
  9. A fragile kaleidoscope
  10. Readings in applied organizational behavior from the Lüneburg Symposium
  11. Discovering cooperation
  12. Sustainability-Oriented Innovation of SMEs
  13. ‘Forewarned is Forearmed’: Overcoming Multifaceted Challenges of Digital Innovation Units
  14. Comparison of wood volume estimates of young trees from terrestrial laser scan data
  15. VALUES-BASED BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION-THE CASE OF ECOSIA AND ITS BUSINESS MODEL
  16. Impact of audit committees with independent financial experts on accounting quality
  17. Microstructures and mechanical properties of a hot-extruded Mg−8Gd−3Yb−1.2Zn−0.5Zr (wt%) alloy
  18. A Survey of Surveys
  19. Controlling the unsteady analogue of saddle stagnation points
  20. Mehrsprachige Lehramtsstudierende schreiben
  21. Institutionalisierung der erziehungswissenschaftlichen Lehrerausbildung
  22. Mapping a sustainable future
  23. Spatial imaginaries in flood risk management: insights from a managed retreat initiative in upper Bavaria
  24. Contributions to Labormetrics
  25. Globalismus/Globalism
  26. Einführung
  27. Immaterial Labour and World Order: An Evaluation of a Thesis
  28. Lernkarten Bibelkunde
  29. Rethinking the meaning of “landscape shocks” in energy transitions
  30. Unified Generation of Conformations, Conformers, and Stereoisomers
  31. Who guards the guards with AI-driven robots? The ethicalness and cognitive neutralization of police violence following AI-robot advice