How context affects transdisciplinary research: insights from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

ABSTRACT: Transdisciplinary research (TDR) has been developed to generate knowledge that effectively fosters the capabilities of various societal actors to realize sustainability transformations. The development of TDR theories, principles, and methods has been largely governed by researchers from the global North and has reflected their contextual conditions. To enable more context-sensitive TDR framing, we sought to identify which contextual characteristics affect the design and implementation of TDR in six case studies in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, and what this means for TDR as a scientific approach. To this end, we distinguished four TDR process elements and identified several associated context dimensions that appeared to influence them. Our analysis showed that contextual characteristic

SUBMITTER: Schneider F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9684244 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature