Jana Zscheischler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4082389 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jana Zscheischler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jana |
| FAMILY NAME | Zscheischler |
| SIGNATURE | ZSCHEISCHLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vechta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9062-820X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Too often invisible: The role of women in global agri-food systems
The false certainties of climate policy: Rethinking risk and cooperation in an uncertain future
Conceptualising destination degrowth for sustainable tourism development in three German biosphere reserves
Tourism is a typical example for conflicts in society-environment-interactions, as it causes increasing pressure on natural resources and ecosystems due to growth expectations. Being especially dependent on healthy society-environment-interactions, tourism in protected areas (PAs) has gained increased attention within sustainable tourism discourses. This includes tourism in biosphere reserves (BRs) as model regions for sustainable development. Ho…
A typology of rural femininity and identity among women coffee producers – A qualitative case study from Costa Rica
Agricultural startups’ visions of a sustainable agri-food future: A comparative case study in rural and urban Germany
Current agriculture and food systems are major drivers of global environmental change and are linked to numerous ethical concerns. Against this backdrop, agri-startups are perceived as promising catalysts for new and more sustainable agri-food systems. However, their potential to actually contribute to sustainability transformations has been understudied. The aim of this study is to narrow this gap by analyzing German agri-startups’ visions and h…
Photovoltaics in agricultural landscapes: “Industrial land use” or a “real compromise” between renewable energy and biodiversity? Perspectives of German nature conservation associations
Transdisciplinary knowledge integration Part II: Experiences of five transdisciplinary processes on digital data use in Germany
Transdisciplinary problems are complex, ill-defined, societal real-world problems with high ambiguity that are contested and require multiple trade-offs. Part I of this paper showed that transdisciplinary processes include seven types of knowledge integration: system (ontological), epistemological, cultural, cognitive, social conflict, evolutionary (levels of representation), and complexity-theory-based types of knowledge integration. The epistem…
Transdisciplinary knowledge integration – Part I: Theoretical foundations and an organizational structure
Transdisciplinary processes deal with transdisciplinary problems that are (i) complex, (ii) societally relevant, (iii) ill-defined, and (iv) real-world problems which often show a high degree of ambiguity resulting in contested perceptions and evaluations among and between scientists and practitioners. Therefore, they are susceptible to multiple trade-offs. Transdisciplinary processes construct socially robust orientations (SoROs) particularly fo…
Rural bioeconomies in Europe: Socio-ecological conflicts, marginalized people and practices
Bioeconomy policies claim to contribute to socio-ecological transformations and decreasing rural-urban inequalities. Based on examples of four bioeconomies in rural Europe, we argue that contrary to these claims, such policies to date have not de-escalated existing social conflicts but instead have often further contributed to polarization tendencies. To live up to those proclaimed goals, bioeconomy research and policy need to deprioritize econom…
Co-design approaches in land use related sustainability science – A systematic review
Societal Acceptability of Insect-Based Livestock Feed: A Qualitative Study from Europe
Against the background of high demand for protein-rich feed in the EU and the environmental degradation associated with intensive livestock farming, insect-based feed is discussed as a potential sustainable alternative to conventional feed. However, the establishment of such an innovation depends not only upon technical and economic feasibility, but also on social factors impacting acceptability. The aim of this paper was to determine the accepta…
Incumbents’ in/ability to drive endogenous sustainability transitions in livestock farming: Lessons from Rotenburg (Germany)
Livestock farmers, as incumbents, face pressures to transition toward sustainability. We study these actors’ role in this process, particularly their in/ability to contribute to endogenous institutional change. Our study entails an interview-based single case study with farmers based on institutional theory. We find “partaking” to be the likely form of endogenous change, as incumbents predominantly rely on routine and sensemaking agency. They ext…
Preservation, modernization, and transformation: Contesting bioeconomic imaginations of “manure futures” and trajectories toward a sustainable livestock system
In discourses on sustainability, its underlying conceptualizations and meanings, the role of imaginations and their influence on concrete social practices and mutually dependent sociomaterial structures have been overlooked. Therefore, our article uses Adloff and Neckel's (Sustain Sci 14(4):1015-1025, 2019) conceptual framework to explore the role of imaginations in generating different trajectories from a concrete environmental problem, namely i…
Social-ecological transformation and Covid-19: The need to revisit working-class environmentalism
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic points to unequally distributed vulnerabilities in society. Unevenly distributed disadvantages are also found in processes of a social-ecological transformation. The concept of working-class environmentalism arguably presents a way out of this deficiency through incorporating and focusing on working class and precarious people in processes of social change. We develop four theses for our argumentation to revisit work…
Opportunities, balancing acts, and challenges - doing PhDs in transdisciplinary research projects
Doing a PhD in a transdisciplinary research (TDR) project allows early-career scientists (ECSs) to study innovative topics in socioecological systems and to apply methods involving the co-design and co-production of knowledge with practitioners. However, a series of interviews and a group discussion with ECSs involved in TDR projects revealed not only the benefits for career development but also a number of challenges and even risks related to wo…
The Potential of Bioeconomic Innovations to Contribute to a Social-Ecological Transformation: A Case Study in the Livestock System
Environmental crises, which are consequences of resource-intensive lifestyles and are characterized to a large extent by both a changing climate and a loss of biodiversity, stress the urgent need for a global social-ecological transformation of the agro-food system. In this regard, the bioeconomy and bioeconomic innovations have frequently been seen as instrumental in addressing these grand challenges and contributing to more sustainable land use…
Zur Gestaltung transdisziplinärer und transformativer Forschungsprozesse: Lernen von Beispielen aus der Forschungspraxis
Praxisakteure und Forscher(innen) gehen mit unterschiedlichen Vorstellungen in transdisziplinäre und transformative Forschungsprojekte. Zwei Sammelbände stellen Methoden vor, die im Zuge der Reallaborforschung in Baden-Württemberg (BaWü-Labs) getestet wurden und die helfen, verschiedene Bedarfe und Ziele der Forschungspartner zu versöhnen
Beyond projects: Benefits of research accompanying research: Reflections from the research programme Sustainable Land Management
In manifold ways science and practice are working together to find solutions for sustainable land management. New research programmes on this topic generate a large variety of single project results. Accompanying research projects will realize additional value by merging and synthesising the results from these projects and by supporting the generation of new knowledge for science and society.For many actors in science and policy, the additional v…
Ethical Concerns in Poultry Production: A German Consumer Survey About Dual Purpose Chickens
The paper offers insights into the acceptability of ethical issues in poultry production and how this situation provides an opportunity to transform the prevailing system into a more sustainable one. The survey among German consumers reveals that killing day-old chicks is a well-known practice and is rated as “very problematic”. In contrast, dual-purpose chickens are mostly unknown but are considered a positive alternative to killing day-old chic…
How Much of the Real-World Laboratory Is Hidden in Current Transdisciplinary Research
The concept of real-world laboratories is difficult to distinguish from the concept of transdisciplinary research. Thus, the question has arisen: to what extent is the real-world laboratory truly novel? If transdisciplinary research is considered a process providing only socially robust knowledge and orientation (instead of solutions), then the real-world lab could be thought of as a model in which evidence-supported solutions can be tested and a…
Von der Programmatik zur Praxis: Plädoyer für eine Grounded Theory transformationsorientierter Forschung
Reaktion auf fünf Beiträge zum Thema Transformative Wissenschaft in GAIA
The success of transdisciplinary research for sustainable land use: Individual perceptions and assessments
Evaluation is a major issue in discussions of transdisciplinary research (TDR). Empirical studies often consider expert perspectives; however, knowledge of the experiences, attitudes, and motivations of a broader science-practice community applying transdisciplinarity remains rare. The present study aims to gather insights into the perceptions and assessments of success of TDR projects from scientists and practitioners with experience with TDR pr…
Transdisciplinarity in land use science – A review of concepts, empirical findings and current practices
Forschung für Nachhaltige EntwicklungenResearch for Sustainable Development
Incumbents’ in/ability to drive endogenous sustainability transitions in livestock farming: Lessons from Rotenburg (Germany)
Livestock farmers, as incumbents, face pressures to transition toward sustainability. We study these actors’ role in this process, particularly their in/ability to contribute to endogenous institutional change. Our study entails an interview-based single case study with farmers based on institutional theory. We find “partaking” to be the likely form of endogenous change, as incumbents predominantly rely on routine and sensemaking agency. They ext…
The Potential of Bioeconomic Innovations to Contribute to a Social-Ecological Transformation: A Case Study in the Livestock System
Environmental crises, which are consequences of resource-intensive lifestyles and are characterized to a large extent by both a changing climate and a loss of biodiversity, stress the urgent need for a global social-ecological transformation of the agro-food system. In this regard, the bioeconomy and bioeconomic innovations have frequently been seen as instrumental in addressing these grand challenges and contributing to more sustainable land use…
Opportunities, balancing acts, and challenges - doing PhDs in transdisciplinary research projects
Doing a PhD in a transdisciplinary research (TDR) project allows early-career scientists (ECSs) to study innovative topics in socioecological systems and to apply methods involving the co-design and co-production of knowledge with practitioners. However, a series of interviews and a group discussion with ECSs involved in TDR projects revealed not only the benefits for career development but also a number of challenges and even risks related to wo…
Ethical Concerns in Poultry Production: A German Consumer Survey About Dual Purpose Chickens
The paper offers insights into the acceptability of ethical issues in poultry production and how this situation provides an opportunity to transform the prevailing system into a more sustainable one. The survey among German consumers reveals that killing day-old chicks is a well-known practice and is rated as “very problematic”. In contrast, dual-purpose chickens are mostly unknown but are considered a positive alternative to killing day-old chic…
Preservation, modernization, and transformation: Contesting bioeconomic imaginations of “manure futures” and trajectories toward a sustainable livestock system
In discourses on sustainability, its underlying conceptualizations and meanings, the role of imaginations and their influence on concrete social practices and mutually dependent sociomaterial structures have been overlooked. Therefore, our article uses Adloff and Neckel's (Sustain Sci 14(4):1015-1025, 2019) conceptual framework to explore the role of imaginations in generating different trajectories from a concrete environmental problem, namely i…
The success of transdisciplinary research for sustainable land use: Individual perceptions and assessments
Evaluation is a major issue in discussions of transdisciplinary research (TDR). Empirical studies often consider expert perspectives; however, knowledge of the experiences, attitudes, and motivations of a broader science-practice community applying transdisciplinarity remains rare. The present study aims to gather insights into the perceptions and assessments of success of TDR projects from scientists and practitioners with experience with TDR pr…
Forschung für Nachhaltige EntwicklungenResearch for Sustainable Development
Transdisciplinarity in land use science – A review of concepts, empirical findings and current practices
How Much of the Real-World Laboratory Is Hidden in Current Transdisciplinary Research
The concept of real-world laboratories is difficult to distinguish from the concept of transdisciplinary research. Thus, the question has arisen: to what extent is the real-world laboratory truly novel? If transdisciplinary research is considered a process providing only socially robust knowledge and orientation (instead of solutions), then the real-world lab could be thought of as a model in which evidence-supported solutions can be tested and a…
Von der Programmatik zur Praxis: Plädoyer für eine Grounded Theory transformationsorientierter Forschung
Reaktion auf fünf Beiträge zum Thema Transformative Wissenschaft in GAIA
The success of transdisciplinary research for sustainable land use: Individual perceptions and assessments
Evaluation is a major issue in discussions of transdisciplinary research (TDR). Empirical studies often consider expert perspectives; however, knowledge of the experiences, attitudes, and motivations of a broader science-practice community applying transdisciplinarity remains rare. The present study aims to gather insights into the perceptions and assessments of success of TDR projects from scientists and practitioners with experience with TDR pr…
Beyond projects: Benefits of research accompanying research: Reflections from the research programme Sustainable Land Management
In manifold ways science and practice are working together to find solutions for sustainable land management. New research programmes on this topic generate a large variety of single project results. Accompanying research projects will realize additional value by merging and synthesising the results from these projects and by supporting the generation of new knowledge for science and society.For many actors in science and policy, the additional v…
Ethical Concerns in Poultry Production: A German Consumer Survey About Dual Purpose Chickens
The paper offers insights into the acceptability of ethical issues in poultry production and how this situation provides an opportunity to transform the prevailing system into a more sustainable one. The survey among German consumers reveals that killing day-old chicks is a well-known practice and is rated as “very problematic”. In contrast, dual-purpose chickens are mostly unknown but are considered a positive alternative to killing day-old chic…
Zur Gestaltung transdisziplinärer und transformativer Forschungsprozesse: Lernen von Beispielen aus der Forschungspraxis
Praxisakteure und Forscher(innen) gehen mit unterschiedlichen Vorstellungen in transdisziplinäre und transformative Forschungsprojekte. Zwei Sammelbände stellen Methoden vor, die im Zuge der Reallaborforschung in Baden-Württemberg (BaWü-Labs) getestet wurden und die helfen, verschiedene Bedarfe und Ziele der Forschungspartner zu versöhnen
Social-ecological transformation and Covid-19: The need to revisit working-class environmentalism
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic points to unequally distributed vulnerabilities in society. Unevenly distributed disadvantages are also found in processes of a social-ecological transformation. The concept of working-class environmentalism arguably presents a way out of this deficiency through incorporating and focusing on working class and precarious people in processes of social change. We develop four theses for our argumentation to revisit work…
Opportunities, balancing acts, and challenges - doing PhDs in transdisciplinary research projects
Doing a PhD in a transdisciplinary research (TDR) project allows early-career scientists (ECSs) to study innovative topics in socioecological systems and to apply methods involving the co-design and co-production of knowledge with practitioners. However, a series of interviews and a group discussion with ECSs involved in TDR projects revealed not only the benefits for career development but also a number of challenges and even risks related to wo…
The Potential of Bioeconomic Innovations to Contribute to a Social-Ecological Transformation: A Case Study in the Livestock System
Environmental crises, which are consequences of resource-intensive lifestyles and are characterized to a large extent by both a changing climate and a loss of biodiversity, stress the urgent need for a global social-ecological transformation of the agro-food system. In this regard, the bioeconomy and bioeconomic innovations have frequently been seen as instrumental in addressing these grand challenges and contributing to more sustainable land use…
Preservation, modernization, and transformation: Contesting bioeconomic imaginations of “manure futures” and trajectories toward a sustainable livestock system
In discourses on sustainability, its underlying conceptualizations and meanings, the role of imaginations and their influence on concrete social practices and mutually dependent sociomaterial structures have been overlooked. Therefore, our article uses Adloff and Neckel's (Sustain Sci 14(4):1015-1025, 2019) conceptual framework to explore the role of imaginations in generating different trajectories from a concrete environmental problem, namely i…
Rural bioeconomies in Europe: Socio-ecological conflicts, marginalized people and practices
Bioeconomy policies claim to contribute to socio-ecological transformations and decreasing rural-urban inequalities. Based on examples of four bioeconomies in rural Europe, we argue that contrary to these claims, such policies to date have not de-escalated existing social conflicts but instead have often further contributed to polarization tendencies. To live up to those proclaimed goals, bioeconomy research and policy need to deprioritize econom…
Co-design approaches in land use related sustainability science – A systematic review
Societal Acceptability of Insect-Based Livestock Feed: A Qualitative Study from Europe
Against the background of high demand for protein-rich feed in the EU and the environmental degradation associated with intensive livestock farming, insect-based feed is discussed as a potential sustainable alternative to conventional feed. However, the establishment of such an innovation depends not only upon technical and economic feasibility, but also on social factors impacting acceptability. The aim of this paper was to determine the accepta…
Incumbents’ in/ability to drive endogenous sustainability transitions in livestock farming: Lessons from Rotenburg (Germany)
Livestock farmers, as incumbents, face pressures to transition toward sustainability. We study these actors’ role in this process, particularly their in/ability to contribute to endogenous institutional change. Our study entails an interview-based single case study with farmers based on institutional theory. We find “partaking” to be the likely form of endogenous change, as incumbents predominantly rely on routine and sensemaking agency. They ext…
Photovoltaics in agricultural landscapes: “Industrial land use” or a “real compromise” between renewable energy and biodiversity? Perspectives of German nature conservation associations
Transdisciplinary knowledge integration Part II: Experiences of five transdisciplinary processes on digital data use in Germany
Transdisciplinary problems are complex, ill-defined, societal real-world problems with high ambiguity that are contested and require multiple trade-offs. Part I of this paper showed that transdisciplinary processes include seven types of knowledge integration: system (ontological), epistemological, cultural, cognitive, social conflict, evolutionary (levels of representation), and complexity-theory-based types of knowledge integration. The epistem…
Transdisciplinary knowledge integration – Part I: Theoretical foundations and an organizational structure
Transdisciplinary processes deal with transdisciplinary problems that are (i) complex, (ii) societally relevant, (iii) ill-defined, and (iv) real-world problems which often show a high degree of ambiguity resulting in contested perceptions and evaluations among and between scientists and practitioners. Therefore, they are susceptible to multiple trade-offs. Transdisciplinary processes construct socially robust orientations (SoROs) particularly fo…
Conceptualising destination degrowth for sustainable tourism development in three German biosphere reserves
Tourism is a typical example for conflicts in society-environment-interactions, as it causes increasing pressure on natural resources and ecosystems due to growth expectations. Being especially dependent on healthy society-environment-interactions, tourism in protected areas (PAs) has gained increased attention within sustainable tourism discourses. This includes tourism in biosphere reserves (BRs) as model regions for sustainable development. Ho…
A typology of rural femininity and identity among women coffee producers – A qualitative case study from Costa Rica
Agricultural startups’ visions of a sustainable agri-food future: A comparative case study in rural and urban Germany
Current agriculture and food systems are major drivers of global environmental change and are linked to numerous ethical concerns. Against this backdrop, agri-startups are perceived as promising catalysts for new and more sustainable agri-food systems. However, their potential to actually contribute to sustainability transformations has been understudied. The aim of this study is to narrow this gap by analyzing German agri-startups’ visions and h…
Too often invisible: The role of women in global agri-food systems
The false certainties of climate policy: Rethinking risk and cooperation in an uncertain future
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Geography (6 works)