Arnim Wiek
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1414531 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Arnim Wiek |
| NOMBRES | Arnim |
| APELLIDO | Wiek |
| FIRMA | WIEK A |
| AFILIACIONES | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8058-6440 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 67 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 912 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Building capacity for sustainability transformations through transdisciplinary experimentation
In 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) established that global greenhouse gas emissions trajectories are not on track to limiting warming to less than 2 ° C above pre-industrial averages (IPCC 2022a). Given that broader progress towards ambitious climate change and sustainability goals remains incremental, a whole-of-society approach, including transformative innovation in the private sector, is required to trigger the nece…
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Purpose This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil, the UK and The Netherlands. The paper addresses existing literature that championed further integration …
Developing key competencies in sustainability through project-based learning in graduate sustainability programs
Purpose This research aims to investigate the role of project-based-learning within graduate sustainability curricula through the lens of key competence development. Project-based learning has become a widely recommended pedagogy for sustainability education. It is hypothesized that through collaboration, student autonomy and real-world application, students develop key competencies for sustainability. This paper also aims to examine the connecti…
Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world
Structuring and advancing solution-oriented research for sustainability
The sustainability challenges the world faces today call for concerted and immediate action. Complementing problem-oriented, descriptive-analytical research with solution-oriented research could strengthen sustainability science’s contribution to address these challenges. We introduce different types of solution-oriented sustainability research to structure the discourse, outline opportunities to advance this research trajectory, and close with r…
Competencies for Advancing Transformations Towards Sustainability
Advancing transformations towards sustainability calls for change agents equipped with a new set of competencies. Such sustainability competencies have been articulated with multiplicity and ambiguity, which is counterproductive to joint and accelerated progress. A unified framework of sustainability learning objectives would provide guidance to students, educators, and administrators of sustainability programs. To this end, we carried out a syst…
Learning processes for interpersonal competence development in project-based sustainability courses – insights from a comparative international study
Purpose For professional sustainability work, graduates need to be able to work in teams and collaborate with stakeholders; in other words, they need to have developed interpersonal competence. There is growing evidence that project-based sustainability courses facilitate interpersonal competence development. However, research so far has focused on single case studies and on assessing learning outcomes. The purpose of this study is to deepen the …
Current practice of assessing students’ sustainability competencies
While there is growing agreement on the competencies sustainability professionals should possess as well as the pedagogies to develop them, the practice of assessing students’ sustainability competencies is still in its infancy. Despite growing interest among researchers, there has not yet been a systematic review of how students’ sustainability competencies are currently assessed. This review article responds to this need by examining what tools…
Scaling the impact of sustainability initiatives
Amplifying the impact of sustainability initiatives to foster transformations in urban and rural contexts, has received increasing attention in resilience, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research. We review the literature on amplification frameworks and propose an integrative typology of eight processes, which aim to increase the impact of such initiatives. The eight amplification processes are: stabilizing, speeding up, growin…
Embracing conflicts for interpersonal competence development in project-based sustainability courses
Purpose Advanced skills in communication, teamwork and stakeholder engagement are widely recognized as important success factors for advancing sustainability. While project-based learning formats claim to advance such skills, there is little empirical evidence that demonstrates how interpersonal competence is being developed. This study aims to describe and explains teaching and learning processes of project-based sustainability courses that cont…
What are the ingredients for food systems change towards sustainability?—Insights from the literature
Many detrimental effects on the environment, economy, and society are associated with the structure and practices of food systems around the world. While there is increasing agreement on the need for substantive change in food systems towards sustainability, divergent perspectives exist on what the appropriate points of intervention and strategies to achieve such change are. Change in diets and nutrition, the importance of social food movements, …
Advancing Decision-Visualization Environments—Empirically informed Design Recommendations
Building actor-centric transformative capacity through city-university partnerships
Experiments and evidence in sustainability science
Learning through evaluation – A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments
Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research
The most critical question for climate research is no longer about the problem, but about how to facilitate the transformative changes necessary to avoid catastrophic climate-induced change. Addressing this question, however, will require massive upscaling of research that can rapidly enhance learning about transformations. Ten essentials for guiding action-oriented transformation and energy research are therefore presented, framed in relation to…
Nanotechnology Development as if People and Places Matter
Bridging divides in sustainability science
Towards an alignment of activities, aspirations and stakeholders for responsible innovation
Governance of technological innovation remains challenged by the dilemma of control. Two divergent responses seek to meet this challenge. The first regulates negative impacts once evidence is gathered. The second precludes dissemination of technologies until enough is known about outcomes. Recognizing limitations of each response, scholars are increasingly exploring responsible innovation (RI), a concept that revolves around dimensions of anticip…
Ideal and reality of multi-stakeholder collaboration on sustainability problems
Utilizing international networks for accelerating research and learning in transformational sustainability science
Sustainability science in action
Learning while transforming
Sustainability assessment of water governance alternatives
Linking stakeholder survey, scenario analysis, and simulation modeling to explore the long-term impacts of regional water governance regimes
Transdisciplinary research in sustainability science
Key competencies in sustainability
The future of sustainability science
Future visioning of local climate change
Making local futures tangible—Synthesizing, downscaling, and visualizing climate change scenarios for participatory capacity building
From complex systems analysis to transformational change
Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research
The most critical question for climate research is no longer about the problem, but about how to facilitate the transformative changes necessary to avoid catastrophic climate-induced change. Addressing this question, however, will require massive upscaling of research that can rapidly enhance learning about transformations. Ten essentials for guiding action-oriented transformation and energy research are therefore presented, framed in relation to…
Functions of scenarios in transition processes
Quality criteria for visions and visioning in sustainability science
Learning from success—Toward evidence-informed sustainability transitions in communities
Public acceptance of nanotechnology foods and food packaging
Participatory methods of integrated assessment—a review
The field of Participatory Integrated Assessment (PIA) is still very young, having evolved from the broader field of Integrated Assessment (IA) in the mid to late 1990s. Like IA, PIA is a problem‐based field, with a focus on interdisciplinary research. Fundamental to PIA, however, is the assertion that the quality of decisions is improved by the direct involvement of stakeholders in the assessment process—particularly when those decisions pertain…
Success factors and strategies for sustainability transitions of small-scale communities – Evidence from a cross-case analysis
The evolution of the IPCC's emissions scenarios
Sustainability science
Solution spaces for decision-making—a sustainability assessment tool for city-regions
Governance scenarios for addressing water conflicts and climate change impacts
Transition towards improved regional wood flows by integrating material flux analysis and agent analysis
Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world
Ideal and reality of multi-stakeholder collaboration on sustainability problems
Utilizing international networks for accelerating research and learning in transformational sustainability science
Learning while transforming
Sustainable Engineering Science for Resolving Wicked Problems
Systemic scenarios of nanotechnology
Building actor-centric transformative capacity through city-university partnerships
Transition towards improved regional wood flows by integrating material flux analysis and agent analysis
Operational Eco‐efficiency
Eco‐efficiency has been established as a crucial concept for corporate environmental management. Most approaches deal with eco‐efficiency on the level of the company or the product. However, given that companies have special budgets earmarked for environmental operations or investments, the question arises as to which operation within which domain is the most eco‐efficient. This article presents an approach to supporting these decisions by calcul…
Solution spaces for decision-making—a sustainability assessment tool for city-regions
Transdisciplinary case studies as a means of sustainability learning
Purpose This paper aims at presenting the theoretical concepts of the transdisciplinary case study approach (TCS), which is a research and teaching approach developed and elaborated at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), as a means of transition support. Design/methodology/approach The paper reveals the historical roots of case studies, transdisciplinarity and sustainable development as teaching and research paradigms. The TCS approa…
Functions of scenarios in transition processes
Measuring societal effects of transdisciplinary research projects
Laypeople's and Experts' Perception of Nanotechnology Hazards
Public perception of nanotechnology may influence the realization of technological advances. Laypeople's ( N = 375) and experts' ( N = 46) perception of 20 different nanotechnology applications and three nonnanotechnology applications were examined. The psychometric paradigm was utilized and applications were described in short scenarios. Results showed that laypeople and experts assessed asbestos as much more risky than nanotechnology applicatio…
Challenges of Transdisciplinary Research as Interactive Knowledge Generation – Experiences from Transdisciplinary Case Study Research
There are already a variety of contributions focusing on the aspect of knowledge generation in transdisciplinary research. Along the same lines, this article analyses the features of knowledge generation in transdisciplinary case studies initiated at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and conducted in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and Sweden. The article starts with the description of what kind of knowledge is generated when …
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Public acceptance of nanotechnology foods and food packaging
Sustainable governance of emerging technologies—Critical constellations in the agent network of nanotechnology
Valuation in morally charged situations
The evolution of the IPCC's emissions scenarios
Making local futures tangible—Synthesizing, downscaling, and visualizing climate change scenarios for participatory capacity building
Systemic scenarios of nanotechnology
Real‐world learning opportunities in sustainability
Purpose Academic sustainability programs aim to develop key competencies in sustainability, including problem‐solving skills and the ability to collaborate successfully with experts and stakeholders. These key competencies may be most fully developed in new teaching and learning situations. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the kind of, and extent to which, these key competencies can be acquired in real‐world learning opportunities. Design/…
Challenges of sustainable recovery processes in tsunami affected communities
Purpose Sustainable housing and community recovery processes in the aftermath of tsunamis have to cope with direct impacts, such as fatalities, destroyed buildings, and loss of economic assets, as well as indirect impacts caused by shortcomings in recovery management. Recent studies on post‐tsunami recovery tend to focus on direct impacts, ranging from monitoring to prevention studies. Less attention is paid to recovery as a complex bundle of mul…
Participatory methods of integrated assessment—a review
The field of Participatory Integrated Assessment (PIA) is still very young, having evolved from the broader field of Integrated Assessment (IA) in the mid to late 1990s. Like IA, PIA is a problem‐based field, with a focus on interdisciplinary research. Fundamental to PIA, however, is the assertion that the quality of decisions is improved by the direct involvement of stakeholders in the assessment process—particularly when those decisions pertain…
User engagement in sustainability research
User engagement, stakeholder involvement, and public consultation in sustainability research have received increased attention over the last decade. Key driving factors behind this are that social outcomes, policy relevance, and user engagement have all become requirements for securing research funding. Many articles have provided compelling arguments for the need to reconsider why, when and how users are engaged within the research process. We p…
Key competencies in sustainability
Sustainable Engineering Science for Resolving Wicked Problems
Future visioning of local climate change
How much time do we have? Urgency and rhetoric in sustainability science
Transdisciplinary research in sustainability science
From complex systems analysis to transformational change
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