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A transdisciplinary, participatory and action-oriented research approach: Sounds nice but what do you mean?

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Author

  • Sabina Andrén

Summary, in English

This paper discusses transdisciplinary, participatory and action-oriented approaches to research on urbansustainable development. Phronetic planning research, as described by Bent Flyvberg (2004), is highlighted as one interesting approach which combines many of the general themes here dealt with. A special section is devoted to discuss quality criteria of transdisciplinary research. The paper is written as a background to a thesis in progress on Malmö and urban sustainable development.

Department/s

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Document type

Working paper

Topic

  • Social and Economic Geography

Keywords

  • Transdisciplinary
  • participatory
  • action-oriented
  • phronetic
  • urban sustainable development
  • human ecology

Status

Unpublished