Making transdisciplinarity happen: Phase 0, or before the beginning
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F22%3A00559155" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/22:00559155 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901122001769?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901122001769?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.05.019" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.envsci.2022.05.019</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Making transdisciplinarity happen: Phase 0, or before the beginning
Original language description
Both within science and society, transdisciplinary approaches are increasingly employed to address today's sustainability challenges. Often transdisciplinary research processes are structured in three core phases: a) problem identification and formation of a common research object, b) co-production of solution-oriented and transferable knowledge, c) embedding co-produced knowledge through transdisciplinary reintegration. In all phases of this ideal-typical model, the involvement of non-academic actors is essential to meet the challenges of real-world problems, and of transformative research practices. Despite existing guidance for the core trans disciplinary process, its initiation often remains an uncharted area because of its strong context dependency. Based on a concrete transdisciplinary case study addressing sustainability transformation in Transylvania, we bring together our learned experience with initiating a transdisciplinary process using a research-driven approach. To this end, we introduce the notion of Phase 0, as an initiating phase prior to beginning an ideal typical transdisciplinary process. Within Phase 0, we propose three empirically and literature informed sub phases: Sub-Phase 0.1) selecting the case study, Sub-Phase 0.2) understanding the case study context from a transdisciplinary perspective,Sub-Phase 0.3) fostering premises for coming together. We outline the general rationale behind these sub-phases, and we illustrate how we carried out each sub-phase in practice. By deriving cross-cutting lessons from the three sub-phases, we enhance the practice of transdisciplinary sustainability research with the aim to leverage its transformative potential.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10510 - Climatic research
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Environmental Science & Policy
ISSN
1462-9011
e-ISSN
1873-6416
Volume of the periodical
136
Issue of the periodical within the volume
OCT
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
187-197
UT code for WoS article
000818804400011
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85132792818