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"How to Achieve Effectiveness in Problem-Oriented Landscape Research: The Example of Research on Biotic Invasions"

Christoph Kueffer and Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn

	Abstract
1	Introduction
2	A theoretical framework for the analysis of the effectiveness of problem-oriented research
3	The societal problem of biotic invasions and the field of invasion research
	3.1	The societal problem of biotic invasions
	3.2	The field of invasion research
4	The production of systems knowledge – Understanding the processes underlying biotic invasions
	4.1	The classical model
	4.2	Phase transition models
	4.3	Natural experiments
	4.4	Multifactorial analyses of case studies
	4.5	Landscape ecology
	4.6	Vector science
	4.7	Land use science
5	The production of target knowledge – Valuation of the impacts of invasive species
	5.1	Biological impact research
	5.2	The native/alien debate
	5.3	Ecological risk assessment
	5.4	Economic valuation
	5.5	Socioeconomic valuation
6	The production of transformation knowledge – Research that addresses the options for managing biotic invasions
	6.1	Prevention
	6.2	Early detection and eradication
	6.3	The control of invasive species
7	Discussion
	7.1	The evolution of invasion research: The search for an adequate framing of problem-oriented research on biotic invasions
	7.2	Forms of boundary management
8	Conclusions
9	Acknowledgements
	References
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Table 1:
A categorisation of seven different research approaches that are used in invasion research to clarify systems knowledge (see text for further explanation).

Table 2:
A categorisation of five different approaches that are used in invasion research to clarify target knowledge (see text for further explanation).

Table 3:
A categorisation of three different management approaches, their links with systems and target knowledge, and their needs for transformation knowledge (see text for further explanation).