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Christian Erik Pohl


Last Name

Pohl

First Name

Christian Erik

ORCID

0000-0002-7935-464X

Organisational unit

02351 - TdLab / TdLab

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  • Priority themes for Swiss sustainability research
    Item type: Report
    Wuelser, Gabriela; Chesney, Marc; Mayer, Heike; et al. (2020)
    Swiss Academies Reports
    Using six priority themes, the "White Paper on Sustainability Research" outlines Switzerland's most urgent research needs in order to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The priority themes were developed by 30 experts from science and practice on the basis of a broad-based dialogue with over 100 stakeholders from science, business, administration and civil society.
  • Joint problem identification and structuring in environmental research
    Item type: Journal Article
    Wiek, Arnim; Scheringer, Martin; Pohl, Christian Erik; et al. (2007)
    GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
  • Framing Evaluation
    Item type: Other Conference Item
    Pohl, Christian Erik (2011)
  • Enabling Effective Problem-oriented Research for Sustainable Development
    Item type: Journal Article
    Küffer, Christoph; Underwood, Evelyn; Hirsch Hadorn, Gertrude; et al. (2012)
    Ecology and Society
  • From Transdisciplinarity to Transdisciplinary Research
    Item type: Other Conference Item
    Pohl, Christian Erik (2010)
  • Addressing Wicked Problems through Transdisciplinarity Research
    Item type: Book Chapter
    Pohl, Christian Erik; Truffer, Bernhard; Hirsch Hadorn, Gertrude (2017)
    The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity
    In a number of European countries a particular understanding of transdisciplinarity has evolved over the last decades, initiated by research on environmental problems. The focus of this type of transdisciplinary research is on helping society solve wicked problems. A specific feature is that, in addition to researchers of different disciplines, representatives of civil society and the private and public sectors are involved in the research process. “Addressing Wicked Problems through Transdisciplinary Research” describes this type of transdisciplinary research, its roots, and the challenges to be dealt with when addressing wicked societal problems.
  • Structuring the science-policy nexus in sustainability research
    Item type: Conference Poster
    Wuelser, Gabriela; Pohl, Christian Erik; Hirsch Hadorn, Gertrude (2010)
  • Deliverable 3.1: Matrix for integration of learning cases and framework of analysis
    Item type: Report
    Galvini, Giorgia; Sessa, Carlo; Wallace, Doireann; et al. (2019)
    The SHAPE-ID project was scheduled to organise six learning case workshops across Europe between December 2019 and May 2020 to enable stakeholders to explore best practices in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research (IDR/TDR) with an emphasis on research involving the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS). The first three of these workshops – held in Dublin in December 2019, Edinburgh in January 2020 and Turin in February 2020 – took place as planned. The remaining three – intended to take place in Bilbao in March, in Warsaw in April and in Zurich in May 2020 – were postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Due to the ongoing and uncertain situation with COVID-19, the SHAPE-ID consortium considered the organisation of in-person meetings no longer feasible and decided to reorganise the workshops in a remote setting. This choice, besides ensuring the protection of all participants’ health while reducing further delays to the project, has presented the opportunity to experiment with interdisciplinary/ transdisciplinary learning activities in a virtual environment. Indeed, despite the adversity, there is an opportunity to be seized in organising online events. Exploring the potential of online techniques for working and developing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaborations is a necessary step considering that personal mobility and gatherings will not resume at previous levels of frequency and intensity soon. In particular, the role of the Arts and Humanities in this scenario is essential because the technology-driven process of moving meetings online will challenge most of the tacit and emotional aspects of human interaction, such as informal and private communication, the emotional effects of collaboration, and all those non-visible elements of social exchange that need to be considered and influence the outcome of collaborative research. We therefore had the opportunity to learn how to design, prepare and conduct online workshops – taking advantage of the necessary delay to research suitable methodologies and redesign already well-planned in-person workshops – and evaluate their efficacy compared to the traditional face-to-face workshops. This document reports on the workshops, organising the findings into a coherent framework in order to feed into a second report, D3.3 – Recommendations and measures to maximise IDR impact on society. The current report is structured as follows: Section 1: Integration of challenge-oriented learning journeys Section 2: Overview of the six workshops’ outcomes (Dublin, Edinburgh, Turin, Zurich, Warsaw, Bilbao) Section 3: Detailed reports for each of the six workshops Section 4: Conclusions on IDR learning cases tackling societal challenges and missions In addition, Appendix 1 includes the full set of six workshops evaluation reports and Appendix 2 the full list of participants at all learning workshops.
  • Toolkits for transdisciplinary research: state of the art, challenges, and potentials for further developments
    Item type: Book Chapter
    Studer, Sibylle; Pohl, Christian Erik (2023)
    Handbook of Transdisciplinarity: Global Perspectives
    Confronted with complex, rapidly changing, global challenges, societies need research that helps people understand complexity and join forces. Transdisciplinary (TD) research is a promising approach for addressing various stakeholders and generating actionable knowledge. TD researchers adapt and develop methods and tools for the collaboration and co-production of knowledge. Toolkits for TD research aim to compile potentially useful methods and tools for rather dispersed TD communities in order to provide an overview, guidance, and sources for applying, developing, and combining methods. In this chapter, we discuss the role of toolkits for TD communities (i.e., researchers, facilitators, trainers, and practitioners involved in TD research). We first introduce the main methodological challenges in TD research and specific requirements of TD methodology-situatedness, evolving methodology, sensitivity to unexpected change, and traceability-that may be addressed with the support of TD toolkits. We then briefly describe the emergence of TD-specific toolkits, also referring to toolkits that do not use TD for their framing but are of essential use for the TD communities. Based on this trajectory, and the specific case of the td-net toolbox, we discuss the extent to which toolkits help address methodological requirements for TD research and name potentials for future developments.
  • Revisiting the sustainability science research agenda
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Sahle, Mesfin; Lahoti, Shruti Ashish; Lee, So-Young; et al. (2025)
    Sustainability Science
    Identifying research gaps and priorities is paramount to advance sustainability science and contribute to a sustainable future. This editorial contributes to this effort by contemplating the sustainability science research agenda and aligning it with recent changes in global dynamics. Drawing on consultations with the editorial board members of the Sustainability Science journal and a review of relevant literature, we identified 12 key research topics. These topics are interpreted within a strategic framework encompassing three key themes: (1) goals that drive sustainability science, (2) approaches to attain these goals, and (3) tools to advance sustainability science research. In so doing, this editorial emphasizes a sustainable development agenda extending beyond 2030, fostering equity and justice, and tackling issues related to power dynamics and geopolitical conflicts. It underscores the significance of research approaches to attaining sustainability goals, in particular, theorizing, co-production of knowledge and action, attaining clarity in conceptual descriptions, and developing systems-oriented analytical frameworks. Additionally, it highlights the value of place-based approaches, learning from significant systemic shocks, and nurturing inner transformations. It also underlines the need to explore emerging technologies and data-intensive methodologies as a tool to address sustainability concerns. The systematic contemplation of the sustainability science research agenda presented in this editorial piece aims to invoke further discussion among researchers and practitioners about a fresh and relevant agenda that promotes the sustainable integration of nature and society.
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