Umweltpsychologie Nr. 1/2012 shows a good mixture of psychological research and reflections on how psychology can contribute to the transdisciplinary and actionoriented process of social change in the field of sustainability science.
There are three more "classical" contributions in demonstrating the psychological investigations of societal processes that are going on in the fields of ground water, management of parking spaces, and acceptance of dam constructions. All of them give an insight into how psychological concepts and work can be used to investigate reality and encourage a societal change process to more environmentally friendly and sustainable behaviour patterns on the individual and community levels.
Three articles are concerned with the question of how psychological knowledge can be managed, how collaboration processes can be supported for transdisciplinary or even transepistemic work, and how psychology could be better integrated into sustainability science, allowing for greater clarity and openness of dialogue among the different disciplines and stakeholders.
"Our intention is to provide a forum of German-English exchange about theoretical concepts and methodological challenges of transdisciplinarity", Petra Schweizer-Ries (Bochum) and Douglas D. Perkins (New York) note in their editorial.
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