Transdisciplinary Research and Practice for Sustainability Outcomes (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Fam, Dena; Mitchell, Cynthia; Riedy, Chris; Palmer, Jane

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on more than 15 years of experience with transdisciplinary research at the University of Technology Sydney's Institute for Sustainable Futures, this book is about the theory and practice of transdisciplinary research, with a specific focus on its role in facilitating change towards a thriving and sustainable human civilisation. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainability, qualitative research methods, environmental impact assessment and development studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317312307
• Artikelnr.: 47138275

Autorenporträt

Dena Fam is Research Director and UTS Chancellor's Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Jane Palmer is Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow (Community Futures) at the Institute for Resilient Regions, University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Chris Riedy is Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Cynthia Mitchell is Deputy Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Transdisciplinary research and practice for sustainability outcomes:
Introduction
2. Transdisciplinarity and sustainability: patterns of definition
Part 1: Working in the transdisciplinary space: Navigating diverse
knowledges to create change
3. Beginning at the end: the outcome spaces framework to guide purposive
transdisciplinary research
4. Tools for transdisciplinary research
5. Transdisciplinarity as transformation: a cybersystemic thinking in
practice perspective
Part 2: Developing and supporting researchers in transdisciplinary practice
6. Being a transdisciplinary researcher: skills and dispositions fostering
competence in transdisciplinary research and practice
7. Seeding a new transdisciplinary community of practice
8. Supervising transdisciplinary doctoral research: adopting transcendent
and transgressive supervisory strategies Catherine Manathunga
9. Assessing transdisciplinary doctoral research: quality criteria and
implications for the examination process
Part 3: Creating change through transdisciplinary research and practice
10. Transforming cities: securing food and clean waterways through a
transdisciplinary phosphorus approach Dana Cordell, Genevieve Metson and
David Iwaniec et al.
11. Creating knowledge: visual communication design research in
transdisciplinary projects
12. Trandisciplinarity in action: four guidelines, a reflexive framework
and their application to improving community sanitation governance in
Indonesia
13. Ethnography as transdisciplinary inquiry: two stories of adaptation and
resilience from Aceh, Indonesia
14. 'To be green, clean and beautiful is progressive': reframing
sustainability through transdisciplinary research and practice in northern
Vi¿t Nam
15. Transdisciplinarity as an emergent property in an agricultural research
for development project on the East India Plateau
16. Trouble at the disciplinary divide: a knowledge ecologies analysis of a
co-design project with native Alaskan communities
17. Future directions: a trans-anthropo-logic of transdisciplinarity