ET ANOTHER SPECIAL ISSUE regarding interand transdisciplinarity may seem annoying to those readers who have followed the discussions about these issues in science policy circles. Interand transdisciplinarity have become buzzwords: their political prestige and ongoing fascination among researchers, notably in the domain of environmental or health issues, seem to rest on the impression that going...

In my last editorial for Vol 18 No 4 of the journal (Zeng, 2014), the Aims and Scope of Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science (JIDPS) were summarized into a framework of three levels covering the research findings related to transdisciplinary notions of design and process: 1) understanding of design and process crossing boundaries of natural, human, and built environments, 2) princip...

This article is about a transdisciplinary project between the social, human and life sciences, and the felt experiences of the researchers involved. 'Transdisciplinary' and 'interdisciplinary' research-modes have been the subject of much attention lately--especially as they cross boundaries between the social/humanistic and natural sciences. However, there has been less attention, from within s...

Recent neuroscience initiatives (including the E.U.'s Human Brain Project and the U.S.'s BRAIN Initiative) have reinvigorated discussions about the possibilities for transdisciplinary collaboration between the neurosciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. As STS scholars have argued for decades, however, such inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations are potentially fraught with ten...

Citation: Eigenbrode SD, Binns WP and Huggins DR (2018) Confronting Climate Change Challenges to Dryland Cereal Production: A Call for Collaborative, Transdisciplinary Research, and Producer Engagement. Front. Ecol. Evol. 5:164. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00164 Confronting Climate Change Challenges to Dryland Cereal Production: A Call for Collaborative, Transdisciplinary Research, and Producer Enga...

This paper presents the need to create a disciplinary conceptual framework. As participants and interactions of expertise in project rise so too can costs, meaning if is transdisciplinary, being at higher levels disciplinarity could become an expensive option. However, approaches for measuring remain ill-defined lack structure, progress this area difficult measure with multiplicity scales ident...

Providing services to the poor and underserved is a gift. The best kept secret is that it is work that most of us are unable to leave, work that allows the practitioner to live out his or her beliefs in a world that may seem increasingly hostile to them. Work with the underserved means being able to value every individual no matter how different she or he is from you and to fight for basic huma...

It is the lack of a common, transdisciplinary language and a metaphorical map encompassing the existing major systems that constrains progress on evolutionary theory. A modification of Eldredge and Gould`s model of "punctuated equilibria" can create such a map. This map should highlight a universal sequence for organizational change processes within and among systems. If this map combines this ...

Scientific collaborations are getting more and more complex and transdisciplinary, as even demanded by many research funding sources. An example is the funding priority "Innovative capability in demographic change" initiated by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Several collaborative projects investigate different parts of an overall research problem. These transdisci...