Formalizing knowledge on international environmental regimes: A first step towards integrating political science in integrated assessments of global environmental change

Enhancing the relevance of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways for climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability research

“…Hughes et al 2013). For global scenario-analysis, it seems more fruitful to have different governance parameters influencing model input parameters rather than including these in the models (de Vos et al 2013). A key-issue for elaborating governance is not only to find quantitative indicators for governance itself, but also to elaborate on how different scientific perspectives on governance and potential future development in governance scenarios play out in terms of quantitative indicators for development, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity.…”

Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research: finding the common ground of multi-faceted concepts

“…Problem-oriented approaches are prevalent in the literature (Kueffer et al 2012), spanning across different disciplinary settings (de Vos et al 2013;Roman et al 2011;Scholz and Steiner 2015). Solution-orientated approaches go one step further (Childers et al 2014;DeFries et al 2012;Hart et al 2015;Matson 2009) by focusing on solutions, instead of focusing on problems (Wiek and Kay 2015).…”

Coupled component modelling for inter- and transdisciplinary climate change impact research: Dimensions of integration and examples of interface design

“…Strong societal embedding of research processes becomes important in order to gain a better understanding by integrating different types of knowledge, achieved in professional practice or everyday life (e.g., De Vos et al, 2013), and to foster action-orientation to create transformative potential in the course of the research process (Lang et al, 2012;Hirsch Hadorn et al, 2010). Environmental literacy therefore requires an integrated, holistic view on the environment (Scholz, 2011;Ostrom, 2008).…”