1. The emergence of transdisciplinary research for sustainability 1.1 The constitution of discursive objects 1.2 The order of discourse 1.3 Structural levels of discourse 2. Process models for transdisciplinary research 2.1 A general model for research processes 2.2 The cognitive order of sustainability research 3. Problems the fountainhead of science 3.1 The conceptual world of problems 3.2 So...

OBJECTIVES To compare conventional and transdisciplinary care in a tertiary outpatient clinic for patients after their first acute myocardial infarction. METHODS One hundred fifty-three patients with acute myocardial infarction were randomized at hospital discharge and followed-up to compare conventional (n=75) and transdisciplinary care (n=78). They were submitted to a clinical evaluation, r...

Developing useful and usable assistive technologies often presents complex (or "wicked") challenges that require input from multiple disciplines and sectors. Transdisciplinary collaboration can enable holistic understanding of challenges that may lead to innovative, impactful and transformative solutions. This paper presents generalised principles that are intended to foster transdisciplinary a...

To improve health at the human, animal, and ecosystem interface, defined as One Health, training of researchers must transcend individual disciplines to develop a new process of collaboration. The transdisciplinary research approach integrates frameworks and methodologies beyond academic disciplines and includes involvement of and input from policy makers and members of the community. The autho...

Water resources in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) play an intrinsic role in regional development. As a result, water is a highly sensitive issue, complex to understand and demanding to govern, in terms of effective and equitable use and distribution. Growing awareness of the complex challenges facing water and the cross-cutting impacts that these challenges have on the region...

The introduction of this book states its purpose and paradigmatic view point as follows: " The book focuses on relations between information and computation. Information is a basic structure of the world, while computation is a process of the dynamic change of information. In order for anything to exist for an individual, the individual must get information on it, either by means of perception ...

A transdisciplinary theory of cognition and communication based on the process self-organizing autopoietic system Niklas Luhmann integrated with a triadic semiotic paradigm experience interpretation phenomenological hermeneutical aspects C.S. Peirce, goes beyond info-computationalism in its integrating Peircean logic cybernetic systemic emergentist view. This makes emergence mind view sciences ...

Translating policies about sustainable development as a social process and sustainability outcomes into the real world of social-ecological systems involves several challenges. Hence, research policies advocate improved innovative problem-solving capacity. One approach is transdisciplinary research that integrates research disciplines, as well as researchers and practitioners. Drawing upon 14 e...

The increasing recognition of the complex, multidimensional relationship between excess adiposity and cancer risk, coupled with the high prevalence of obesity in the US, has motivated the scientific community to seek new research models and paradigms. Compared to traditional unidisciplinary research, transdisciplinary research is seen as having the potential to accelerate both discovery and its...