Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/28540 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Fraunhofer ISI Discussion Papers - Innovation Systems and Policy Analysis No. 10
Publisher: 
Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI, Karlsruhe
Abstract: 
We propose a research agenda integrating environment-related science, technology, and innovation (STI) using a problem-solving approach to sustainable development. We argue that STI for sustainability encompasses four major task domains: (1) ecological modernization and transformation, (2) ecosystem management, (3) environmental risk assessment, and (4) adaptation to environmental change, each posing great social challenges. For each domain, nature-society interaction increasingly relies on knowledge acquisition. The proposed agenda focuses on the investigation of R&D capacity and linking knowledge and action within and among societal spheres (i.e., science, politics, business, law, mass media, and education). While today the disciplinary niches of environment-related STI research are still fragmented, with this broader framework, STI research could develop into a major social science field of human-environment relations.
Subjects: 
human dimensions of global environmental change
environmental sociology
science for sustainability
STI research
innovation research
social studies of science
so-ciology of knowledge
nature-society interaction
noosphere
ecological modernization
ecosystem management
environmental risk assessment
adaptation to environmental change
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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