Transdisciplinarity within South Africa’s global change research: How (well?) are we doing?
| Autor: | Lavinia Perumal, Bastien Linol, Sphumelele Ndluvo, Maarten J. de Wit, Alon Serper, Taufeeq Dhansay |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology lcsh:Social Sciences Transdisciplinarity Political science Grand Challenges multidisciplinary research energy security lcsh:Social sciences (General) lcsh:Science lcsh:Science (General) business.industry Environmental resource management Capacity building Global change Energy security Test (assessment) lcsh:H climate change Innovation Plan General Earth and Planetary Sciences Engineering ethics lcsh:Q lcsh:H1-99 General Agricultural and Biological Sciences business lcsh:Q1-390 |
| Zdroj: | South African Journal of Science, Vol 111, Iss 5/6, Pp 1-4 (2015) |
| ISSN: | 1996-7489 |
| Popis: | The Global Change Programme (GCP) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) of South Africa is one of the 'Grand Challenge' programmes that comprise a 10-year Innovation Plan (2008-2018), which aims to transform South Africa into a greater knowledge-based economy through stimulating transdisciplinary research to resolve, inter alia, specific energy, economy, society and technology needs. Meeting these challenges epitomises the necessity of effective transdisciplinary research, which can be defined as research specifically orientated to resolve 'real-world' (i.e. encompassing policy-driven research toward societal benefit) problems that are too complex and multidimensional to be answered by singular research disciplines. We present a first-order evaluation of the transdisciplinary capacity building within the GCP programme at its halfway stage, with an aim to test its effectiveness. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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