Roland W. Scholz

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Roland Werner Scholz (* 15. April 1950 in Halle (Saale)) is a German mathematician, psychologist, and Professor Emeritus of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich. He famously coined the terms transdisciplinarity and societal didactics.

Roland Scholz earned his undergraduate and master's degrees in mathematics at the

Scholz is one of the pioneers of the theory and practice of transdisciplinary research and processes. According to his work, which manifested itself as part of the Zurich 2000 definition, transdisciplinarity is different from interdisciplinarity, since, as a core characteristic, knowledge integration and mutual learning among science and society together with co-leadership are crucial elements when striving towards socially robust orientations for sustainable development. From a methodological and didactic perspective, the embedded case study became a powerful method for supporting transdisciplinary processes. Since 1993, he has been an innovator and scientific leader of the first transdisciplinarity laboratory and initiated large-scale transdisciplinary projects on sustainable transitions of urban, agricultural, ecological, technological, economic, and political systems. He was co-leader of the Global TraPs International Fertilizer Development Center#Global Transdisciplinary Processes for Sustainable Phosphorus Management (Global TraPs) project – the first global project on sustainable resources management in regard to phosphorus – which included representatives of all key stakeholder groups of the supply–demand chain.

His current scientific work focuses on resilient coupled human–environment systems. Scholz investigates how the rationales of human and environmental systems interact and adapt. As expressed by the phrase “disciplined interdisciplinarity in transdisciplinary discourses,” he contributes to how different forms of epistemics in different domains of science and society may be interrelated.

Scholz has edited or published more than 40 books and (co-)authored more than 400 scientific papers. Most of these have contributed to environmental and sustainability sciences. However, his work has also contributed to risk and decision research, public health, and the domains of psychology, economics (sustainable finance), organizational sciences, and the didactics of mathematics.

Publications

• Roland W. Scholz; Amit H. Roy; Fridolin S. Brand; Deborah T. Hellums; Andrea E. Ulrich (12 March 2014). Sustainable Phosphorus Management: A Global Transdisciplinary Roadmap. Springer Science & Business Media.
  ISBN 978-94-007-7250-2
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• Roland W. Scholz;
  ISBN 978-0-521-18333-8
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• Roland W. Scholz; Olaf Tietje (2002). Embedded Case Study Methods: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Knowledge. SAGE Publications.
  ISBN 978-0-7619-1946-9
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• J. Thompson Klein; W. Grossenbacher-Mansuy; R. Häberli; A. Bill; R. W. Scholz; M. Welti (6 December 2012). Transdisciplinarity: Joint Problem Solving among Science, Technology, and Society: An Effective Way for Managing Complexity. Birkhäuser.
  ISBN 978-3-0348-8419-8
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• Rolf Biehler; Roland W. Scholz; Rudolf Sträßer; Bernard Winkelmann (11 April 2006). Didactics of Mathematics as a Scientific Discipline. Springer Science & Business Media.
  ISBN 978-0-306-47204-6
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• Roland W. Scholz (6 December 2012). Cognitive Strategies in Stochastic Thinking. Springer Science & Business Media.
  ISBN 978-94-009-3825-0
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• R.W. Scholz (1 November 1983). Decision Making under Uncertainty: Cognitive Decision Research, Social Interaction, Development and Epistemology. Elsevier.
  ISBN 978-0-08-086670-3
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• Roland W. Scholz (1980). Dyadische Verhandlungen: e. theoret. u. experimentelle Unters. von Vorhersagemodellen. Hain.
  ISBN 978-3-445-02036-9
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• Roland W. Scholz at the ETH
• Roland Scholz at the Danube-University Krems
• curriculum vitae
• Literature, Roland W. Scholz (Google Scholar)