From a critique of journalistic practice, this article works on the hypothesis that work Honoré de Balzac approaches literature complexity, through engendering network characters, knowledge, plots and actions. Through primary secondary review, we observed recovers etymological meaning word complexus “what weaves together” (MORIN, 1996). In our view, adopts recursive, hologrammatic knowledge rec...

The chapter includes identification of the need for reconceptualization of architectural and urbanistic discourse in higher education and the definition of the transdisciplinary methodology for a sustainable development of the living environment. Architecture and urbanism as complex disciplines that start from the existential social needs and reach to the most complex challenges and aspirations...

In this article amaturitymodel for themanagementof transdisciplinaryknowledge ispresented, although research nowadays is transdisciplinary the different maturity models proposed in the literature are oriented towards interdisciplinary knowledgemanagement, and, at most, they are oriented towardmultidisciplinary knowledge management. The objective is proposing an evolutionary model which accepts ...

BACKGROUND Decision makers in health care organizations struggle with how to set priorities for new technologies in medicine. Traditional approaches to priority setting for new technologies in medicine are insufficient and there is no widely accepted model that can guide decision makers. DISCUSSION Daniels and Sabin have developed an ethically based account about how priority setting decision...

The problems of the world are not categorised into disciplines. They are far more complex, a reality that the tradition of transdisciplinary research has recognised. When faced with questions in public health and sustainability, the traditional scientific paradigm often seems inadequate, and, at least in medicine, transdisciplinary research has not yet been fully appreciated or acknowledged. Th...