Spanning disciplinary, sectoral and international boundaries: a sea change towards transdisciplinary global environmental change research?

Rice, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2013.06.007

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“…Differences in language use among the disciplines are frequently pointed to as creating problems for the collaborative effort [2,3,10,44]. The CINTERA experience confirms this.…”

Section: Methodology As a Bridge Over The Large Dividesupporting

confidence: 66%

“…The need for collaboration among researchers from many disciplines in order to achieve sustainability is now broadly recognized [3,[9][10][11][12]. In the management of marine resources, such collaboration has in effect become policy: the ecosystem approach to management (EAM) has now been adopted in Norway [13], the European Union [14] and, in principle, the United States' federal marine management agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) [15].…”

Section: The Task At Handmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Interdisciplinarity as an Emergent Property: The Research Project “CINTERA” and the Study of Marine Eutrophication

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Abstract:Research projects combining different disciplines are increasingly common and sought after by funding agencies looking for ways to achieve environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Creating and running a truly integrated research project that combines very different disciplines is, however, no easy task. Large-scale efforts to create interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research efforts have reported on their experiences in OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 9119 trying to achieve this goal. This article shares the methods, challenges and achievements experienced by a smaller group of researchers who have developed an interdisciplinary approach based on former results of Norwegian and Chilean experiments. The project "A Cross-disciplinary Integrated Eco-system Eutrophication Research and Management Approach" (CINTERA), funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN, project 216607), brings together the fields of political science, economics, marine biology/oceanography and marine bio-geo-chemistry to improve the understanding of marine eutrophication and its possible socio-economic impacts. CINTERA is a multidisciplinary project that evolved into an interdisciplinary project and in so doing, transformed the attitudes of participants. The transformative process was generated particularly by the need to work closely together in making the CINTERA project useful for policy-makers.

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“…Differences in language use among the disciplines are frequently pointed to as creating problems for the collaborative effort [2,3,10,44]. The CINTERA experience confirms this.…”

Section: Methodology As a Bridge Over The Large Dividesupporting

confidence: 66%

Section: The Task At Handmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interdisciplinarity as an Emergent Property: The Research Project “CINTERA” and the Study of Marine Eutrophication

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“…This is typical of such partnerships, where many barriers need to be overcome (Rice 2013). These barriers, which are widely reviewed in the literature, include the following: difficulty in overcoming disciplinary and institutional boundaries, differences in work cultures across institutions, different language and frames of reference, limited funding opportunities, institutional rewards and incentives that do not encourage transdisciplinary research, high time and resource investments required, deficiency in skills required to manage integrative research processes, and the high level of communication and facilitation required for success (Pohl 2008, Rice 2013, Pooley et al 2014.…”

Section: Building a Boundary Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These constraints have been identified elsewhere as typical problems in collaborative, transdisciplinary research partnerships (McNie 2007). Other challenges identified included clashes between the different organizational cultures (Rice 2013) and finding suitable program participants (Pooley et al 2014). These concerns will be addressed in the planning for Phase 2 of the KZNSS Research Program.…”

Section: Continuous Evaluation and Reflectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Transdisciplinarity offers an integrative form of knowledge generation and decision making based on research collaborations among scientists from different disciplines and stakeholders from business, government, and civil societies (Pohl 2008, Rice 2013, Sitas et al 2014, Swilling 2014. For the purpose of this study we use the following definition of transdisciplinarity (Lang et al 2012:26): "Transdisciplinarity is a reflexive, integrative, methoddriven scientific principle aiming at the solution or transition of societal problems and concurrently of related scientific problems by differentiating and integrating knowledge from various scientific and societal bodies of knowledge."…”

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How to build science-action partnerships for local land-use planning and management: lessons from Durban, South Africa

Cockburn¹,

Rouget²,

Slotow³

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ABSTRACT. The gap between scientific knowledge and implementation in the fields of biodiversity conservation, environmental management, and climate change adaptation has resulted in many calls from practitioners and academics to provide practical solutions responding effectively to the risks and opportunities of global environmental change, e.g., Future Earth. We present a framework to guide the implementation of science-action partnerships based on a real-world case study of a partnership between a local municipality and an academic institution to bridge the science-action gap in the eThekwini Municipal Area, South Africa. This partnership aims to inform the implementation of sustainable land-use planning, biodiversity conservation, environmental management, and climate change adaptation practice and contributes to the development of human capacity in these areas of expertise. Using a transdisciplinary approach, implementation-driven research is being conducted to develop several decision-making products to better inform land-use planning and management. Lessons learned through this partnership are synthesized and presented as a framework of enabling actions operating at different levels, from the individual to the interorganizational. Enabling actions include putting in place enabling organizational preconditions, assembling a functional well-structured team, and actively building interpersonal and individual collaborative capacity. Lessons learned in the case study emphasize the importance of building collaborative capacity and social capital, and paying attention to the process of transdisciplinary research to achieve more tangible science, management, and policy objectives in science-action partnerships. By documenting and reflecting on the process, this case study provides conceptual and practical guidance on bridging the science-action gap through partnerships.

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Spanning disciplinary, sectoral and international boundaries: a sea change towards transdisciplinary global environmental change research?

Cited by 35 publications

References 60 publications

Interdisciplinarity as an Emergent Property: The Research Project “CINTERA” and the Study of Marine Eutrophication

Interdisciplinarity as an Emergent Property: The Research Project “CINTERA” and the Study of Marine Eutrophication

How to build science-action partnerships for local land-use planning and management: lessons from Durban, South Africa

Leveraging Nature‐based Solutions for transformation: Reconnecting people and nature

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