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It’s time to call transdisciplinarity’s bluff

Global Social Challenges Journal
Transdisciplinarity occupies an increasingly prominent space in contemporary academic discourse, often signalled as a pathway to better science. Yet beneath its institutional endorsement and expanding literature lies a persistent conceptual ambiguity and
Hussein Zeidan
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Transforming Management Education: Insights from Social‐Ecological Systems and Social Innovation Research

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract It is clear that contemporary management education (ME) needs to be transformed to tackle complex social‐ecological crises effectively. However, the concept of transformation is often ill‐defined in the context of ME; while there is also a lack of understanding about what concrete transformation trajectories (also called scaling pathways) are ...
Laura A. Colombo
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a ‘Holistic’ Approach to Promoting Physical and Mental Health in Children and Adolescents Through Physical Activity

Acta Paediatrica, Volume 115, Issue 10, Page 2091-2098, October 2026.
Moving beyond siloed physical activity interventions toward holistic approaches can best support children's healthy developmental trajectories. ABSTRACT Aim Physical activity in childhood and adolescence is a cornerstone of holistic health, supporting physical growth, cognitive development, emotional wellbeing and social connectedness.
Chloe Emonson, Nicole Rinehart, Caterina Pesce, Carlo Agostoni, Livio Luzi, Spyridoula Vazou   +5 more
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Transdisciplinarity: an imperative for information behaviour research

Information Research: An International Electronic Journal
Introduction. Information behaviour research must be methodologically and conceptually sophisticated to generate knowledge reflecting the complexities of information engagement in people’s lives.
Sarah Polkinghorne, Paul Bowell, Lisa M. Given   +2 more
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Systems Thinking for T‐Shaped Sustainability Education: A Viable Systems Approach (vSa)

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 5, Page 2107-2123, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT Sustainability represents a complex and evolving paradigm calling for competences necessary for a deep understanding of the interdependencies among human, environmental, economic, and cultural dimensions. Along with a review of the literature and an analysis of official guidelines from leading international institutions, this study assesses ...
Marialuisa Saviano, Mario Testa, Adriana Apuzzo, Anna Di Vernieri, Maria Giovanna Corrado   +4 more
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Metaphor, transformation, and transdisciplinarity

, 2021
Metaphor, along with narrative and other linguistic devices such as myth, fable, parable, and allegory, enables us to make sense of the world around us and shape how we think and act individually and collectively in relation to society and the natural world.
Sage, Colin, Hughes, Ian, Byrne, Edmond P., Mullally, Gerard   +3 more
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Scaling from microsite to landscape to resolve litter decomposition dynamics in globally extensive drylands

Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 9, Page 2726-2736, September 2026.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Decomposition is the transformation of dead organic matter into its inorganic constituents. In most biomes, decomposition rates can be accurately predicted with simple mathematical models, but these models have long under‐predicted decomposition in globally extensive ...
Heather L. Throop, Jiwei Li, Daryl L. Moorhead, Sasha C. Reed, Katherine E. O. Todd‐Brown, Alexi C. Besser, Dellena Evelyn Bloom, Thomas C. Ingalls, Alejandro Cueva   +8 more
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Letting People in: Redefining Collaboration in Wildland–Urban Interface Governance

Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 910-926, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Intensifying wildfire regimes and expanding human settlements into wilderness areas have heightened concerns about the wildland–urban interface (WUI) due to the associated increase in fire risk. However, the WUI presents broader social‐ecological challenges that go beyond wildfire risk and remain understudied.
Clara Mosso, Harrison Fried, Karissa Courtney, Jonathan Salerno, Stephanie Kampf, Andrea Baudoin Farah   +5 more
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Relating the philosophy and practice of ecological economics: The role of concepts, models, and case studies in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research [PDF]

We develop a comprehensive multi-level approach to ecological economics (CML-approach) which integrates philosophical considerations on the foundations of ecological economics with an adequate operationalization. We argue that the subject matter and aims
Quaas, Martin, Baumgärtner, Stefan, Frank, Karin, Becker, Christian, Müller, Birgit   +4 more
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Advancing transdisciplinarity through library–academic collaboration

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Libraries are a central part of the academic system, which is increasingly embracing a range of approaches for tackling complex societal and environmental problems, including transdisciplinarity, which is our focus.
Gabriele Bammer, Thomas Foley, Nithiwadee Chitravas, Alexander P. Richardson, Krisztina Valter, Ehsan Nabavi, Lynette Johns-Boast, Chris A. Browne, Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Judith S. Jones   +9 more
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