Transdisciplinary Research and Sustainability

<p>Transdisciplinarity is a new way of scientifically meeting the challenges of sustainability. Indeed interdisciplinary collaboration and co-operation with non-academic ‘practice partners’ is at the core of this; creating contextualised socially relevant knowledge about complex real-world problems. </p><p></p><p>Transdisciplinary Research and Sustainability breaks new ground by presenting transdisciplinary research in practice drawing on recent advances by the vibrant transdisciplinary research communities in the German-speaking world. It describes methodological innovations developed to address wide-ranging contemporary issues including climate change adaptation energy policy sustainable agriculture and soil conservation. Furthermore the authors reflect on the challenges involved in integrating non-academic actors in scientific research on the tensions that arise in the encounter of theory and praxis and on the inherently normative political nature of sustainability research. </p><p></p><p>Highlighting the need for academic institutions to be transformed to reflect transdisciplinarity this timely volume<i> </i>will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Sustainability Science Transdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy of Science.</p>