Climate & Environment
Transdisciplinarity
Research that crosses disciplinary boundaries and includes non-academic knowledge to tackle real-world sustainability problems.
Definition
Transdisciplinarity is a research approach that integrates knowledge across academic disciplines and, distinctively, from outside academia — practitioners, communities, Indigenous knowledge holders — co-defining problems and co-producing solutions. Where multidisciplinarity juxtaposes disciplines and interdisciplinarity blends them, transdisciplinarity starts from the problem itself (a watershed, a transition, a community) and assembles whatever knowledge it needs.
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