ABSTRACT

This volume explores interactions between academia and different societal stakeholders with a focus on sustainability. It examines the significance and potential of transdisciplinary collaboration as a tool for sustainability and the SDGs.

Traditionally, academia has focused on research and education. More recently, however, the challenges of sustainable development and achieving the SDGs have required the co-production of knowledge between academic and non-academic actors. Compromising theory, methods and case studies from a broad span of transdisciplinary collaboration, Transdisciplinarity For Sustainability: Aligning Diverse Practices is written by specialists from various academic disciplines and represents an important step forward in systematising knowledge and understanding of transdisciplinary collaboration. They are designed to provide a roadmap for further research in the field and facilitate pursuing and realizing the SDGs.

The book will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students in a variety of disciplines such as architecture, design, economics, social sciences, engineering and sustainability studies. It will also be of significant value to professionals who are engaged in transdisciplinary collaboration that supports sustainable development.

chapter 2|21 pages

History and mapping of transdisciplinary research on sustainable development issues

Dealing with complex problems in times of urgency

chapter 3|26 pages

Transdisciplinary research

Approaches and methodological principles

chapter 5|18 pages

Transdisciplinary research

Practitioners’ lessons on key methodological challenges

chapter 7|26 pages

Transdisciplinary collaboration in architecture and design

The case of Chhobhar, Nepal

chapter 9|23 pages

Context, problems and knowledge

A case study of an individual transdisciplinary PhD journey in Burundi, East Africa