A call for transdisciplinary approaches to address complex challenges

Abstract

Leadership education as a field of study has largely been considered multi-or interdisciplinary, yet many leadership educators find their programs siloed within the constructs of higher education institutions inadequate in addressing complex issues of today's world. The authors challenge organizations to embrace a truly transdisciplinary approach to equipping students with the capacity and skills to address issues of the world today.

Outcomes from the First European Planetary Health Hub Convening at ARTIS in Amsterdam

“…Likewise, developing research groups and consortia will need to win funding from the Horizon program and other similar funding schemes to maintain initial enthusiasm and momentum. The complexity and interrelatedness of Planetary Health and its desire to keep at least one eye on the whole system while practicing two-eyed seeing [48] means that projects are large, complex, and consequently difficult to fund, particularly when educational budgets remain largely narrow, subject-specific silos [49,50], and academics are tied to discipline-specific departments to establish and advance their careers [51]. Restructuring education on Planetary Health will not occur overnight.…”