Moving Worldviews
Reshaping sciences, policies and practices for endogenous sustainable development
Bertus Haverkort and Coen Reijntjes (eds.)

ETC/Compas, Leusden 2006 ISBN-10: 90-77347-09-7; ISBN-13: 978-90-77347-09-7
Papers and proceedings of a European Conference on Moving Worldviews, 28-20 November 2005, Soesterberg, the Netherlands

Conference proceedings (including contents)

1.   The conference ‘Moving Worldviews’
2.   Worldviews and sciences in transition
3.   Reshaping research
4.   Rural development initiatives
5.   Inter-cultural dialogues on worldviews and knowledges
6.   Learning for transition
7.   Summary of plenary discussions
8.   Summary of conclusions and final reflection

Conference papers

Nicole Note, Reflections about worldviews, the Western worldview and inter-cultural polylogue

Ervin Laszlo, A holistic worldview for a planetary civilisation

Hans-Peter Dürr, We have to learn to think in a new way

Henk Molenaar, Communicating worldviews: articulating global and local knowledge

Bertus Haverkort, Moving worldviews by learning from mistakes

Basarab Nicolescu, Transdisciplinarity – past, present and future

Niels Röling, The role of science in anthropogenic uncertainty

 Reshaping research

Saskia Bosman, Mind-matter-environment

Lukas Rist, The consequences of thinking about evidence in natural sciences

Henk Kieft, Quantum agriculture: bridging frontline physics and intuitive knowledge of nature?

Ernst Zürcher, Cosmic trees and traditional knowledge of lunar rhythms 

Rural development initiatives

David Groenfeldt, How the multifunctionality concept can restore meaning to agri-culture

Sabine de Rooij, Territorial cooperative networks: new social carriers for endogenous rural development

Karlheinz Knickel and Gundula Jahn, Promoting a sustainable development of rural areas: the ‘Active Regions’
pilot programme in Germany

Gerwin Verschuur and Anne Stijkel, Can money work for the evolution of agriculture?

Gaston Remmers, A European Network for Endogenous Development? Food for reflection and an invitation to build it

Kees Manintveld, Worldviews as moving motivations?

Inter-cultural dialogues on worldviews and knowledges

David Millar, Reconstructing epistemologies of African sciences

Elisa Rafamatanantsoa, Material cultural heritage and endogenous sustainable development

Cesar Escóbar, Amerindian cosmovisions and sustainable endogenous development

Stephan Rist, Urs Wiesmann, Juan San Martin, Freddy Delgado, From scientific monoculture to intra- and inter-cultural
dialogue – endogenous development in a North-South perspective

Coen Reijntjes, Endogenous development and moving worldviews

Bertus Haverkort, Dialogues within and between different sciences: issues and strategies from endogenous perspective 

Learning for transition

Ton Baars, How biographical experiences affect a research and training programme in biodynamic agriculture
at Kassel University

Anne Stijkel, How ‘Cocreation and Cocreation Sciences’ can help to make the transition towards
endogenous sustainable development

Ângela Guimarães Pereira, Climate change, lifestyles and social learning through computer games

Arthur Zajonc, Humane endogenous development

Participants

Glossary

Acknowledgements