Population
Dynamics and Supply Systems. A Transdisciplinary
Approach
Bergmann, Matthias et al., 2005:
Quality Criteria of Transdisciplinary Research: A Guide for the Formative Evaluation of Research Projects.
ISOE-Studientexte, No 13, Frankfurt am Main
Keil,
Florian (2008): Pharmaceuticals for Human Use: Options
of Action for Reducing the Contamination of Water Bodies - A Practical
Guide
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Publications
Schultz, I./I. Weller (Hg.) (1995): Gender & Environment. Ökologie und die Gestaltungsmacht der Frauen. Frankfurt am Main, 220 S., DM 35,80. IKO-Verlag: ISBN 3-88939-089-7
The publication of "Gender and Environment: Ecology and Women's Power to Define" concluded the first stage of the project. This research text contains the contributions and discussions of workshops on feminist environmental research, which were run by the Institute for Social-Ecological Research. To begin, with the state of ISOE's research on "Gender and Environment" is reviewed and a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of feminist approaches to critiques of the natural sciences is given. Included along the way are the results of social scientific environmental research on environmental education, awareness and behavior.
The collection of contributions together show which new ways of viewing problems and approaching theorizing can satisfy the demands of feminist environmental research. The range of already existing fundamental concepts and approaches to explanation are discussed in light of different thematic examples. Based on new ways of asking questions, the first research results are introduced with respect to broadening feminist research and the problem field "environment." At the same time, the notion of "women's power to define" is proposed as a new theoretical perspective on emancipation for women's studies and environmental research.
The topic of women and chemicals as a "blind spot" in much of women's studies so far appears as a particular focus of several of the contributions. First attempts at an understanding of this "unknown connection" are introduced in the use of a concept of materials and an environmental politics approach to material flows management, as well as a discussion of the scientific understanding of product(s) and "reproduct(s)" in reproductive technologies.
In the second stage the main focus is the integration of this perspective into concrete feminist environmental research projects.