Knowledge-Based Climate Economy:
Integrated Sciences, Accelerated
Convergence and Knowledge Resources
Dynamics
Giridhari Lal Pandit
Submitted on 23rd June and revised on 20th September 2015, the article is based on the key
note lecture the author delivered at the ‘International Conference: Climate change and
Social-Ecological-Economical Interface-Building: Modelling Approach to Exploring Potential
Adaptation Strategies for Bio-Resource Conservation and Livelihood Development’ (20–21st
May 2015) held at the ISEC, Bangalore. The author thanks, first, an anonymous referee for
receiving comments, triggering this revised version, and, second, all those who were present
during the key note lecture, particularly the Director, ISEC: Bangalore, Prof. M.R. Narayana,
distinguished colleagues Prof. Ruediger Schaldach, Prof. K.V. Raju, Prof. Sunil Nautiyal as well
as the distinguished participants, including the many young scientists, who had all come to the
International Conference from far and wide—from India, Germany and elsewhere. The article is
a part of a larger research project (i) articulating and analyzing strategic multidisciplinarity as a
method of knowledge resources dynamics; (ii) exploring the new possibilities/horizons of
disciplinary interface-building on the one hand and enhancing knowledge environments through
clustering of research institutions, on the other; and (iii) exploring the negative feedback that
thought experiments and scenario-building models can bring to bear on policy development and
implementation within a KBCE.
The concept of knowledge resources dynamics is for the first time introduced by the author in
Pandit (2015b, c) and in Pandit and Meusburger (2015).
G.L. Pandit (&)
Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR), Institute for Social and
Economic Change (ISEC), Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao Road, Nagarabhavi, Bangalore 560 072, India
e-mail: giripandit@yahoo.co.in
G.L. Pandit
Methodology of Science and Ecological Economics Research Programme,
University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi 110021, India
G.L. Pandit
Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik,
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
G.L. Pandit
Institutional Human Ethics Committee, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology,
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (Government of India), Delhi University North
Campus, Mall Road, Delhi 110007, India
G.L. Pandit
Mitglied: Internationale Ernst Cassirer-Gesellschaft E. V., Hamburg, Germany
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
S. Nautiyal et al. (eds.), Climate Change Challenge (3C)
and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building, Environmental Science,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31014-5_10
133
Integrated Sciences, Accelerated
Convergence and Knowledge Resources
Dynamics
Giridhari Lal Pandit
Submitted on 23rd June and revised on 20th September 2015, the article is based on the key
note lecture the author delivered at the ‘International Conference: Climate change and
Social-Ecological-Economical Interface-Building: Modelling Approach to Exploring Potential
Adaptation Strategies for Bio-Resource Conservation and Livelihood Development’ (20–21st
May 2015) held at the ISEC, Bangalore. The author thanks, first, an anonymous referee for
receiving comments, triggering this revised version, and, second, all those who were present
during the key note lecture, particularly the Director, ISEC: Bangalore, Prof. M.R. Narayana,
distinguished colleagues Prof. Ruediger Schaldach, Prof. K.V. Raju, Prof. Sunil Nautiyal as well
as the distinguished participants, including the many young scientists, who had all come to the
International Conference from far and wide—from India, Germany and elsewhere. The article is
a part of a larger research project (i) articulating and analyzing strategic multidisciplinarity as a
method of knowledge resources dynamics; (ii) exploring the new possibilities/horizons of
disciplinary interface-building on the one hand and enhancing knowledge environments through
clustering of research institutions, on the other; and (iii) exploring the negative feedback that
thought experiments and scenario-building models can bring to bear on policy development and
implementation within a KBCE.
The concept of knowledge resources dynamics is for the first time introduced by the author in
Pandit (2015b, c) and in Pandit and Meusburger (2015).
G.L. Pandit (&)
Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR), Institute for Social and
Economic Change (ISEC), Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao Road, Nagarabhavi, Bangalore 560 072, India
e-mail: giripandit@yahoo.co.in
G.L. Pandit
Methodology of Science and Ecological Economics Research Programme,
University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi 110021, India
G.L. Pandit
Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik,
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
G.L. Pandit
Institutional Human Ethics Committee, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology,
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (Government of India), Delhi University North
Campus, Mall Road, Delhi 110007, India
G.L. Pandit
Mitglied: Internationale Ernst Cassirer-Gesellschaft E. V., Hamburg, Germany
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
S. Nautiyal et al. (eds.), Climate Change Challenge (3C)
and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building, Environmental Science,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31014-5_10
133