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An Empirical Test of Pedestrian Activity Theories Within Informal Settlements

open access: yesUrban Planning
Pedestrian activity is often measured in the formal parts of cities, yet it has rarely been studied in informal settlements, although they are typically adjacent to formal areas and residents participate in formal urban life. Route optimization and space
Yael Borofsky   +2 more
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THE IMPACT OF TRANSDISCIPLINARITY ON SIGHT TRANSLATION TRAINING IN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DOMAINS

open access: yesNovìtnâ Osvìta, 2019
The paper aims to explore the impact of interdisciplinarity on sight translation training in scientific and technical domains. The authors concentrate on the distinctive features of transdisciplinarity and explain the concept of "weak" (used as a ...
Natalia Saienko, Iryna Simkova
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Information Dynamics and Learning in Complex Adaptive Systems: Toward a Transdisciplinary Framework

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 1344-1363, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT This article develops a framework for understanding learning and adaptation in complex adaptive systems. Drawing from neuroscience, systems theory, information theory and quantum field theory, it examines how information processing, plasticity and systemic coherence emerge from distributed, nonlinear and feedback‐driven interactions. It argues
Anderson de Souza Sant'Anna
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing Heritage Management through Systems Science

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 1538-1544, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT Heritage is influenced by a range of multifaceted factors, such as global issues, power dynamics, entangled legal frameworks and multilayered needs. The interplay of these elements creates a challenging environment for heritage managers, who must navigate a web of stakeholders with diverse interests and values. This paper suggests that systems
Omid Shakerian   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population health diagnosis with an ecohealth approach

open access: yesRevista de Saúde Pública, 2015
OBJECTIVE To analyze the characteristics of health diagnosis according to the ecohealth approach in rural and urban communities in Mexico.METHODS Health diagnosis were conducted in La Nopalera, from December 2007 to October 2008, and in Atlihuayan, from ...
Luz Arenas-Monreal   +4 more
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Grasping Sustainability Culture in Higher Education Institutions: Conceptualizing and Understanding Key Elements

open access: yesHigher Education Quarterly, Volume 80, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This study addresses the limitations of structural reforms in higher education institutions (HEIs) by emphasizing the need for a robust sustainability culture to support long‐term transformation. Despite growing interest, the concept of sustainability culture is still underdefined, leading to fragmented practices and a lack of shared ...
Inga Stademann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trauma‐Informed Language Teaching: Considerations, Challenges and Possibilities

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT Trauma has been front of mind for many language teachers in the tumultuous first decades of the 21st century, but until quite recently, language teaching research that names trauma as such has been relatively scarce. In this short paper, I give a brief overview of different understandings of trauma, and draw on orienting principles and ...
Ava Becker
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction to Serres on Transdisciplinarity [PDF]

open access: yesTheory, Culture & Society, 2015
Excerpted from an article on Leibniz first published in 1974 in Hermès III, la Traduction, Michel Serres’s ‘Transdisciplinarity as Relative Exteriority’ offers a synoptic view of Serres’s vision of the relationship between philosophy and the sciences. Serres charts four historical strategies by which philosophy has secured its theoretical control over ...
openaire   +1 more source

Innovations for Stakeholder Engagement in Water Governance: A Systematic Literature Review From a Sustainability Transition Perspective

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 548-567, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Sustainable and equitable governance of water resources is among the most pressing global challenges, emphasising the need for innovations towards transitions in the water sector. Innovations for stakeholder engagement can contribute to such transitions through public participation and cross‐sectoral collaboration.
Anne Ellermann   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Moving beyond stewardship to partnership with nature: how Swiss alpine farmers’ relationships to nature and relational values are co-constituted

open access: yesEcosystems and People
Ecologically considerate use of nature (including agriculture) has often been associated with ‘stewardship’ as a human-nature relationship which involves human care, responsibility and accountability and is thus more sustainable than the alternative ...
Mollie Chapman, Anna Deplazes-Zemp
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