Prof. Dr. Roland Scholz

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Roland W. Scholz holds the Chair of Environmental Sciences: Natural and Social Science Interface at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich, Switzerland). He is adjunct professor of Psychology at the University of Zurich (Privatdozent), and 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).

Scholz graduated in Mathematics, Psychology, and Educational Sciences (Dipl.-Math., University of Marburg, Germany, 1976), Social Psychology (Dr. phil., University of Mannheim, Germany, 1979), and Cognitive Psychology (Dr. phil. habil., University of Mannheim, Germany, 1987).

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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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