Christoph Kueffer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1570160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph Kueffer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph |
| FAMILY NAME | Kueffer |
| SIGNATURE | KUEFFER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | ETH Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6701-0703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Berufsbildung als Hebel für die Nachhaltigkeitstransformation
Der Sustainable University Day (SUD) war zehn Jahre lang ein wichtiger Austauschort zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit für Angehörige von Schweizer Hochschulen. 2025 wurde er dank der saguf und ihrer Partner an der OST Ostschweizer Fachhochschule weitergeführt. Die Berufsbildung wurde bei der Tagung als ein zentraler Hebel für die Nachhaltigkeitstransformation identifiziert.
Wissenschaft in Krisenzeiten
In unruhigen Zeiten braucht es eine Wissenschaft, die sich krisenfest macht und dabei erneuert. Fünf Thesen skizzieren Wege einer Transformation der Wissenschaft und laden zur gemeinsamen Reflexion ein
Environmental Humanities Switzerland ‐ a decade in retrospect
Environmental crises confront humanity with challenges that reach into all areas of society ‐ from poverty and exclusion, capitalism and finance, to forced migration, global health, and artificial intelligence. This article traces the history of saguf ’s working group Environmental Humanities from 2014 to 2025 and reflects on its contributions in Switzerland and beyond
Can real-world labs reach through the fog
Auf dem Weg zu einer neuen Strategie
Die saguf macht Nachhaltigkeitstransformation zu ihrem zentralen Thema, engagiert sich für transformatives Forschen und Lernen in der Wissenschaft und intensiviert den Dialog mit der jungen Generation
Two decades of transdisciplinarity in Switzerland
Switzerland has been a stronghold of transdisciplinarity in the past decades, thanks in particular to saguf and td-net. td-net’s 20 years anniversary is an opportunity to recall the past and look ahead
Climate Garden 2085
Climate change education is inherently part of Education for Sustainable Development which has manifold aims to develop transformative learning from primary to tertiary pupils. Climate change is challenging as a school subject, as although it can improve pupils’ knowledge, it is less evident how such knowledge translates into decreasing the value-action gap. Climate change also transverses disciplinary boundaries and teachers struggle to incorpor…
Thirty years of Gaia
Upscaling research and teaching on the Sustainable Development Goals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences
The arts, humanities, and social sciences (AHSS) are critical for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) . A major strategic effort is needed to strengthen inter- and transdisciplinary research and teaching focused on the SDGs in the AHSS
No green deal without a nature-based economy
A green deal cannot be left to economics and engineering. It requires social innovations and new economic thinking that enable people to make a decent living based on ecological practices
Time for a biodiversity turn in sustainability science
For a society to emerge in which people make money through restoration rather than through the destruction of nature, closer dialogue between sustainability science and socially diverse biodiversity conservation is needed
Addressing sustainability challenges with a broader concept of systems, target, and transformation knowledge
Systems, targets and transformations are guiding metaphors of environmental and sustainability research. Is the framing of these concepts still adequate to address today’s wicked sustainability challenges
Applying the Environmental Humanities
Environmental issues require answers from science, society, and culture. How can we apply the humanities and arts to these issues while cultivating methodologies that value context-dependence, multiperspectivity, relativism, and subjectivity
Using the "regime shift" concept in addressing social-ecological change
Regime shift' has emerged as a key concept in the environmental sciences. The concept has roots in complexity science and its ecological applications, and is increasingly applied to intertwined social and ecological phenomena. Yet what exactly is a regime shift? We explore this question at three nested levels. First, we propose a broad, contingent, multi-perspective epistemological basis for the concept, seeking to build bridges between its compl…
Potenziale der Fachhochschulen für die Schweizer Umwelt- und Nachhaltigkeitsforschung
Gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse sind auf praxisnahe Forschung angewiesen. Fachhochschulen sind dafür ideal positioniert, werden in der Schweiz aber dahingehend kaum unterstützt
The progress of interdisciplinarity in invasion science
Eine große Transformation der Schweiz
Die saguf-Jahrestagung 2015 widmete sich den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer großen gesellschaftlichen Transformation hin zu einer nachhaltigen Schweiz. Auf etliche Errungenschaften kann aufgebaut werden. Experimente und Neuorientierungen sind dennoch nötig
Urban Agriculture
While urban agriculture might be considered a passing fad, we argue that it is a vehicle to deal with many urgent topics of societal transformation towards a sustainable future. We discuss the potential of urban agriculture to change agriculture and urban life
Seeing the Environment through the Humanities
The Environmental Humanities draw from insights of the human and natural sciences for proposing new concepts and solutions to society's pressing environmental problems
Wissensaustausch zwischen Forschung und Praxis erfolgreich gestalten
Um die gesellschaftliche Transformation zu gestalten, wird der Austausch von Wissen zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis immer wichtiger. Dieser Artikel benennt Prinzipien, Kompetenzen und Rahmenbedingungen für erfolgreichen Wissensaustausch
The Mountain Invasion Research Network (Miren) . Linking Local and Global Scales for Addressing an Ecological Consequence of Global Change
Many modern environmental problems span vastly different spatial scales, from the management of local ecosystems to understanding globally interconnected processes, and addressing them through international policy. MIREN tackles one such “glocal” (global/local) environmental problem – plant invasions in mountains – through a transdisciplinary, multi-scale learning process at the science-policy interface. The approach led to a new framing of invas…
Developing the Environmental Humanities
The environmental humanities as a metadiscipline provide a new forum for enabling continuous and reciprocal conversations within the humanities and with other sciences in environmental research
Engagement für inter- und transdisziplinäre Forschung zur nachhaltigen EntwicklungCommitment to Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development
Die SAGUF lanciert neue Arbeitsgruppen zu aktuellen Themen und Heraus forderungen
Enabling Effective Problem-oriented Research for Sustainable Development
Kueffer, C., E. Underwood, G. Hirsch Hadorn, R. Holderegger, M. Lehning, C. Pohl, M. Schirmer, R. Schwarzenbach, M. Stauffacher, G. Wuelser, and P. Edwards. 2012. Enabling effective problem-oriented research for sustainable development. Ecology and Society 17(4): 8. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05045-170408
Plant Invasions in Mountains
Mountains are one of few ecosystems little affected by plant invasions. However, the threat of invasion is likely to increase because of climate change, greater anthropogenic land use, and continuing novel introductions. Preventive management, therefore, will be crucial but can be difficult to promote when more pressing problems are unresolved and predictions are uncertain. In this essay, we use management case studies from 7 mountain regions to …
The progress of interdisciplinarity in invasion science
Using the "regime shift" concept in addressing social-ecological change
Regime shift' has emerged as a key concept in the environmental sciences. The concept has roots in complexity science and its ecological applications, and is increasingly applied to intertwined social and ecological phenomena. Yet what exactly is a regime shift? We explore this question at three nested levels. First, we propose a broad, contingent, multi-perspective epistemological basis for the concept, seeking to build bridges between its compl…
Enabling Effective Problem-oriented Research for Sustainable Development
Kueffer, C., E. Underwood, G. Hirsch Hadorn, R. Holderegger, M. Lehning, C. Pohl, M. Schirmer, R. Schwarzenbach, M. Stauffacher, G. Wuelser, and P. Edwards. 2012. Enabling effective problem-oriented research for sustainable development. Ecology and Society 17(4): 8. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05045-170408
Integrative Ecological Research
Taking ecology as an example, I discuss the contribution of a disciplinary natural science to environmental problem solving. Ecological theory has so far been of limited use for environmental management. I present an ecological research strategy that may be termed integrative ecological research. It seeks to explain the complexity of specific field or real-world situations. I argue that such research should be viewed as complementary to other typ…
Miren
As a result of global change, mountain areas are increasingly threatened by invasive alien plants. The Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) initiates and integrates surveys, monitoring, experimental research, and management of plant invasions into mountains at a global scale
Towards a Publication Culture in Transdisciplinary Research
Over the past few decades, many researchers have concluded that adequately addressing issues in the knowledge society requires a major transformation of research, away from disengaged disciplines toward socially engaged, transdisciplinary approaches. To date, knowledge exchange between transdisciplinarity researchers via academic publications has been modest. Developing a common strategy about which journals are appropriate for publishing differe…
Transdisciplinarity in EcoHealth
Kommunikationskompetenz – Eine Bedingung für erfolgreichen Wissensaustausch
Um Umweltprobleme zu lösen, müssen meist voneinander abgegrenzte Wissens systeme verbunden werden. Unterstützend wirkt ein funktionierender Wissensaustausch zwischen Forschung, öffent licher Verwaltung und Praxis. Spezifische Kompetenzen helfen, Wissensaus tauschprozesse erfolgreich zu gestalten; Kommunikationskompetenz ist eine davon
Plant Invasions in Mountains
Mountains are one of few ecosystems little affected by plant invasions. However, the threat of invasion is likely to increase because of climate change, greater anthropogenic land use, and continuing novel introductions. Preventive management, therefore, will be crucial but can be difficult to promote when more pressing problems are unresolved and predictions are uncertain. In this essay, we use management case studies from 7 mountain regions to …
Enabling Effective Problem-oriented Research for Sustainable Development
Kueffer, C., E. Underwood, G. Hirsch Hadorn, R. Holderegger, M. Lehning, C. Pohl, M. Schirmer, R. Schwarzenbach, M. Stauffacher, G. Wuelser, and P. Edwards. 2012. Enabling effective problem-oriented research for sustainable development. Ecology and Society 17(4): 8. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05045-170408
Engagement für inter- und transdisziplinäre Forschung zur nachhaltigen EntwicklungCommitment to Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development
Die SAGUF lanciert neue Arbeitsgruppen zu aktuellen Themen und Heraus forderungen
The Mountain Invasion Research Network (Miren) . Linking Local and Global Scales for Addressing an Ecological Consequence of Global Change
Many modern environmental problems span vastly different spatial scales, from the management of local ecosystems to understanding globally interconnected processes, and addressing them through international policy. MIREN tackles one such “glocal” (global/local) environmental problem – plant invasions in mountains – through a transdisciplinary, multi-scale learning process at the science-policy interface. The approach led to a new framing of invas…
Developing the Environmental Humanities
The environmental humanities as a metadiscipline provide a new forum for enabling continuous and reciprocal conversations within the humanities and with other sciences in environmental research
Seeing the Environment through the Humanities
The Environmental Humanities draw from insights of the human and natural sciences for proposing new concepts and solutions to society's pressing environmental problems
Wissensaustausch zwischen Forschung und Praxis erfolgreich gestalten
Um die gesellschaftliche Transformation zu gestalten, wird der Austausch von Wissen zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis immer wichtiger. Dieser Artikel benennt Prinzipien, Kompetenzen und Rahmenbedingungen für erfolgreichen Wissensaustausch
Eine große Transformation der Schweiz
Die saguf-Jahrestagung 2015 widmete sich den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer großen gesellschaftlichen Transformation hin zu einer nachhaltigen Schweiz. Auf etliche Errungenschaften kann aufgebaut werden. Experimente und Neuorientierungen sind dennoch nötig
Urban Agriculture
While urban agriculture might be considered a passing fad, we argue that it is a vehicle to deal with many urgent topics of societal transformation towards a sustainable future. We discuss the potential of urban agriculture to change agriculture and urban life
Potenziale der Fachhochschulen für die Schweizer Umwelt- und Nachhaltigkeitsforschung
Gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse sind auf praxisnahe Forschung angewiesen. Fachhochschulen sind dafür ideal positioniert, werden in der Schweiz aber dahingehend kaum unterstützt
The progress of interdisciplinarity in invasion science
Applying the Environmental Humanities
Environmental issues require answers from science, society, and culture. How can we apply the humanities and arts to these issues while cultivating methodologies that value context-dependence, multiperspectivity, relativism, and subjectivity
Using the "regime shift" concept in addressing social-ecological change
Regime shift' has emerged as a key concept in the environmental sciences. The concept has roots in complexity science and its ecological applications, and is increasingly applied to intertwined social and ecological phenomena. Yet what exactly is a regime shift? We explore this question at three nested levels. First, we propose a broad, contingent, multi-perspective epistemological basis for the concept, seeking to build bridges between its compl…
Addressing sustainability challenges with a broader concept of systems, target, and transformation knowledge
Systems, targets and transformations are guiding metaphors of environmental and sustainability research. Is the framing of these concepts still adequate to address today’s wicked sustainability challenges
Time for a biodiversity turn in sustainability science
For a society to emerge in which people make money through restoration rather than through the destruction of nature, closer dialogue between sustainability science and socially diverse biodiversity conservation is needed
No green deal without a nature-based economy
A green deal cannot be left to economics and engineering. It requires social innovations and new economic thinking that enable people to make a decent living based on ecological practices
Thirty years of Gaia
Upscaling research and teaching on the Sustainable Development Goals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences
The arts, humanities, and social sciences (AHSS) are critical for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) . A major strategic effort is needed to strengthen inter- and transdisciplinary research and teaching focused on the SDGs in the AHSS
Auf dem Weg zu einer neuen Strategie
Die saguf macht Nachhaltigkeitstransformation zu ihrem zentralen Thema, engagiert sich für transformatives Forschen und Lernen in der Wissenschaft und intensiviert den Dialog mit der jungen Generation
Two decades of transdisciplinarity in Switzerland
Switzerland has been a stronghold of transdisciplinarity in the past decades, thanks in particular to saguf and td-net. td-net’s 20 years anniversary is an opportunity to recall the past and look ahead
Political science (17 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Biology (8 works) · Environmental Science (8 works) · Humanities (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Innovation, Technology, and Society (7 works)