Prof. Dr. Roland Scholz

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Roland W. Scholz holds the Chair of Natural and Social Science Interface in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich, Switzerland). He is also adjunct professor (Privatdozent) of Psychology at the University of Zurich and from 2011 to 2013 he is extraordinary professor at the School of Management and Planning, Stellenbosch University (S.A.) and fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies (STIAS, Stellenbosch Unversity). During his sabbatical in fall 2012, Scholz will be guest professor at the Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. During his sabbatical in fall 2012, Scholz will be guest professor at the Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Univesity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Scholz graduated in Mathematics (Dipl.-Math.), Social Psychology (Dr. phil.), and Cognitive Psychology (Dr. phil. habil.). After specializing in game theory and decision sciences he switched to systems analysis, and environmental modeling, evaluation and risk assessment.

Scholz was elected as the fifth holder of the King Carl XVI Gustaf's Professorship 2001/2002 hosted at the Center of Environment and Sustainability of Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenborg University (Sweden). Since 2002, he is the speaker of the International Transdisciplinarity Network on Case Study Teaching (ITdNet). His work relates transdisciplinarity as a methodology of organizing sustainable transition processes and interdisciplinary research on inextricably coupled human-environment systems. Since 1994 Scholz has run large-scale transdisciplinary studies on sustainable transitions of urban and regional systems, organizational development, and of policy and decision processes. The Global TraPs project as the first global transdisciplinary process on sustainable phosphorus management and the MACOCC project as an intercultural research on cancer provide new perspective in transdisciplinarity.

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Scholz specialized in decision sciences and systems analysis, cognitive and organizational psychology, and environmental modeling, evaluation and risk assessment. His current research field is environmental decision making in human-environment interactions and theory, methodology and practice of transdisciplinary sustainable transition processes. Since 1994 he is annually performing transdisciplinary ETH-NSSI case studies on sustainable urban, regional, and organizational development.

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