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Transdisciplinarity in practice: aims, collaboration and integration in a Swedish research programme
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences, Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6145-2252
Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala.
2014 (English)In: Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, ISSN 1943-815X, E-ISSN 1943-8168, Vol. 11, no 3-4, p. 155-171Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article discusses the practice of crossdisciplinarity in the context of future-oriented sustainability studies. Much research into crossdisciplinarity has concentrated on programmatic and epistemological questions. In this study, we focus on research practice and efforts to realize transdisciplinary aims across a research programme. We use the Swedish Future Forests programme as a case study and explore its aims, forms of collaboration and level of conceptual integration. The study demonstrates that efficient integration requires organizational settings able to support the development of a common conceptual framework. To achieve this, the aims and forms of collaboration and the means of integration ought to be consistent. Far-reaching integration and short-term instrumental objectives may be difficult to combine because integration requires intellectual space, specific boundary settings and time. Short-term instrumental objectives may also hamper open and reflexive discussion of alternative pathways to sustainability and of how participating actors shape the research process. These insights may help researchers and participating actors to design research programmes that enable a realization of their transdisciplinary ambitions.

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2014. Vol. 11, no 3-4, p. 155-171
Keywords [en]
crossdisciplinarity, forests, integration, research practice, sustainability, transdisciplinarity
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Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
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Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-5121DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2014.945940ISI: 000345379700001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84916205047Local ID: 3242deaa-497e-40f6-9e23-9043247fe0d1OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-5121DiVA, id: diva2:977995
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Validerad; 2014; 20141002 (andbra)

Available from: 2016-09-29 Created: 2016-09-29 Last updated: 2023-09-05Bibliographically approved

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