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67The interdisciplinary decision problem : Popperian optimism and Kuhnian pessimism in forestryEcology and Society 23 (3). forthcoming.Interdisciplinary research in the fields of forestry and sustainability studies often encounters seemingly incompatible ontological assumptions deriving from natural and social sciences. The perceived incompatibilities might emerge from the epistemological and ontological claims of the theories or models directly employed in the interdisciplinary collaboration, or they might be created by other epistemological and ontological assumptions that these interdisciplinary researchers find no reason to…Read more
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51Resilience is often promoted as a boundary concept to integrate the social and natural dimensions of sustainability. However, it is a troubled dialogue from which social scientists may feel detached. To explain this, we first scrutinize the meanings, attributes, and uses of resilience in ecology and elsewhere to construct a typology of definitions. Second, we analyze core concepts and principles in resilience theory that cause disciplinary tensions between the social and natural sciences. Third,…Read more
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5RezensionenReviewsNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 11 (3): 198-208. 2003.
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23Toward an alternative dialogue between the social and natural sciencesEcology and Society 23 (4). 2018.Interdisciplinary research within the field of sustainability studies often faces incompatible ontological assumptions deriving from natural and social sciences. The importance of this fact is often underrated and sometimes leads to the wrong strategies. We distinguish between two broad approaches in interdisciplinarity: unificationism and pluralism. Unificationism seeks unification and perceives disciplinary boundaries as conventional, representing no long-term obstacle to progress, whereas plu…Read more
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19Harnessing local knowledge for scientific knowledge production : challenges and pitfalls within evidence-based sustainability studiesEcology and Society 23 (4). 2018.The calls for evidence-based public policy making have increased dramatically in the last decades, and so has the interest in evidence-based sustainability studies. But questions remain about what “evidence” actually means in different contexts and if the concept travels well between different domains of application. Some of the most relevant questions asked by sustainability studies are not, and in some cases cannot be, directly answered by relying on research evidence of the kinds favored by t…Read more
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11The interdisciplinary decision problem : Popperian optimism and Kuhnian pessimism in forestryEcology and Society 23 (3). 2018.Interdisciplinary research in the fields of forestry and sustainability studies often encounters seemingly incompatible ontological assumptions deriving from natural and social sciences. The perceived incompatibilities might emerge from the epistemological and ontological claims of the theories or models directly employed in the interdisciplinary collaboration, or they might be created by other epistemological and ontological assumptions that these interdisciplinary researchers find no reason to…Read more
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15Toward an alternative dialogue between the social and natural sciencesEcology and Society 23 (4). 2018.Interdisciplinary research within the field of sustainability studies often faces incompatible ontological assumptions deriving from natural and social sciences. The importance of this fact is often underrated and sometimes leads to the wrong strategies. We distinguish between two broad approaches in interdisciplinarity: unificationism and pluralism. Unificationism seeks unification and perceives disciplinary boundaries as conventional, representing no long-term obstacle to progress, whereas plu…Read more
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9Harnessing local knowledge for scientific knowledge production : challenges and pitfalls within evidence-based sustainability studiesEcology and Society 23 (4). 2018.The calls for evidence-based public policy making have increased dramatically in the last decades, and so has the interest in evidence-based sustainability studies. But questions remain about what “evidence” actually means in different contexts and if the concept travels well between different domains of application. Some of the most relevant questions asked by sustainability studies are not, and in some cases cannot be, directly answered by relying on research evidence of the kinds favored by t…Read more
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18A Social Science Perspective on ResilienceIn David Chandler & Jon Coaffee (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of International Resilience, Routledge. pp. 49-62. 2016.
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1489Is resilience a normative concept?Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses 2 (6): 112-128. 2018.In this paper, we engage with the question of the normative content of the resilience concept. The issues are approached in two consecutive steps. First, we proceed from a narrow construal of the resilience concept – as the ability of a system to absorb a disturbance – and show that under an analysis of normative concepts as evaluative concepts resilience comes out as descriptive. In the second part of the paper, we argue that (1) for systems of interest (primarily social systems or system with …Read more
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Lund UniversityRegular Faculty
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Social Science |