Do we share an understanding of transdisciplinarity in environmental sustainability research?

Sakao, Tomohiko; Brambila‐Macias, Sergio A.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.09.226

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“…Understanding how to conserve pollinators and pollination in such ecosystems requires integrated research efforts that span disciplines and sectors (Dicks et al 2016). Transdisciplinary research develops a common body of knowledge that goes across and beyond disciplines to address a real-world problem (Pohl 2011, Sakao andBrambila-Macias 2018). It often involves non-academic partners such as businesses or policy makers, bringing in new knowledge from outside academic disciplines that helps to frame the problem and develop solutions, so the research itself is genuinely co-produced, co-designed and co-disseminated (Mauser et al 2013).…”

Section: Research Infrastructures To Conserve Pollinators and Pollinamentioning

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The need for coordinated transdisciplinary research infrastructures for pollinator conservation and crop pollination resilience

Bartomeus

Dicks

2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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There is a growing concern about the status and trends of animal pollinators worldwide. Pollinators provide a key service to both wild plants and crops by mediating their reproduction, so pollinator conservation is of fundamental importance to conservation and to food production. Understanding of the extent of pollinator declines is constrained by the paucity of accessible data, which leads to geographically-and taxonomically-biased assessments. In addition, land conversion to agriculture and intensive agricultural management are two of the main threats to pollinators. This is paradoxical, as crop production depends on pollinators to maximize productivity. There is a need to reconcile conservation and ecosystem service provision in agroecosystems. These challenges require coordinated transdisciplinary research infrastructures. Specifically, we need better research infrastructures to (i) describe pollinator decline patterns worldwide, (ii) monitor current pollinator trends, and (iii) understand how to enhance pollinator numbers and pollination in agroecosystems. This can be achieved, first, by redoubling the efforts to make historical data on species occurrences, interactions and traits openly available and easy to integrate across databases. Second, by empowering citizen science to monitor key pollinator species in a coordinated way and standardizing, consolidating and integrating long term collection protocols both in natural and agricultural areas. Finally, there is a need to develop multi-actor, localised research infrastructures allowing integration of social, economic and ecological approaches in agriculture. We illustrate how decentralized infrastructures can accelerate the process of co-producing research and integrating data collection across scientists, managers, members of the public, farmers and disciplines. The time is ripe to harness the power of coordinated research infrastructures to understand and mitigate pollinator declines.

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Section: Research Infrastructures To Conserve Pollinators and Pollinamentioning

confidence: 99%

The need for coordinated transdisciplinary research infrastructures for pollinator conservation and crop pollination resilience

Bartomeus

Dicks

2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Understanding how to conserve pollinators and pollination in such ecosystems requires integrated research efforts that span disciplines and sectors . Transdisciplinary research develops a common body of knowledge that goes across and beyond disciplines to address a real-world problem (Pohl 2011, Sakao andBrambila-Macias 2018). It often involves non-academic partners such as businesses or policy makers, bringing in new knowledge from outside academic disciplines that helps to frame the problem and develop solutions, so the research itself is genuinely co-produced, co-designed and co-disseminated (Mauser et al 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

The need for coordinated transdisciplinary research infrastructures for pollinator conservation and crop pollination resilience

Bartomeus

Dicks

2018

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There is a growing concern about the status and trends of animal pollinators worldwide. Pollinators provide a key service to both wild plants and crops by mediating their reproduction, so pollinator conservation is of fundamental importance to conservation and to food production. Understanding of the extent of pollinator declines is constrained by the paucity of accessible data, which leads to geographically-and taxonomically-biased assessments. In addition, land conversion to agriculture and intensive agricultural management are two of the main threats to pollinators. This is paradoxical, as crop production depends on pollinators to maximize productivity. There is a need to reconcile conservation and ecosystem service provision in agroecosystems. These challenges require coordinated transdisciplinary research infrastructures. Specifically, we need better research infrastructures to (i) describe pollinator decline patterns worldwide, (ii) monitor current pollinator trends, and (iii) understand how to enhance pollinators and pollination in agroecosystems. This can be achieved, first, by redoubling the efforts to make historical occurrence data on species occurrences, interactions and traits openly available and easy to integrate across databases. Second, by empowering citizen science to monitor key pollinator species in a coordinated way and standardizing and consolidating long term collection protocols both in natural and agricultural areas. Finally, there is a need to develop multi-actor, localised research infrastructures allowing integration of social, economic and ecological approaches in agriculture. We illustrate how decentralized infrastructures can accelerate the process of co-producing research and integrating data collection across scientists, managers, members of the public, farmers and disciplines. The time is ripe to harness the power of coordinated research infrastructures to understand and mitigate pollinator declines.

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“…In addition, to address the real-world problems effectively and efficiently, research addressing multiple academic disciplines simultaneously is especially needed [6]. Nowadays, in fact, more transdisciplinary (TD) research, for which involving stakeholders and addressing multiple disciplines are the two common features [7], is increasingly demanded by research funders [8]. According to Rosenfield [9], which concerns human health and well-being as a societal challenge, TD "projects are those in which researchers from different fields not only work closely together on a common problem over an extended period but also create a shared conceptual model of the problem that integrates and transcends each of their separate disciplinary perspectives."…”

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Research Series Review for Transdisciplinarity Assessment—Validation with Sustainable Consumption and Production Research

Sakao

2019

Sustainability

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In light of the escalating challenges for the sustainability of our societies, the need for improving the research of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) aiming to make real changes on the societies towards sustainability is evident. Transdisciplinary (TD) research is a promising way to enhance SCP research; however, insights to operationalize the concept of TD research are needed for both funders and researchers. Therefore, this article proposes an innovative way to capture and analyse a research series for transdisciplinarity assessment in qualitative and quantitative terms. This new way is termed research series review (RSR). This article adopted literature analysis and partly reflexive retrospective reasoning. In particular, citation content analysis was carried out in relation to two research series selected as the cases. The results show that RSR has advantages such as clearer traceability with cause-and-effect relationships. Furthermore, a successful SCP research series is hypothesised to form an iterative process between practical and theoretical fields as well as finding opportunities and proposing solutions.

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Do we share an understanding of transdisciplinarity in environmental sustainability research?

Cited by 66 publications

References 20 publications

The need for coordinated transdisciplinary research infrastructures for pollinator conservation and crop pollination resilience

The need for coordinated transdisciplinary research infrastructures for pollinator conservation and crop pollination resilience

The need for coordinated transdisciplinary research infrastructures for pollinator conservation and crop pollination resilience

Research Series Review for Transdisciplinarity Assessment—Validation with Sustainable Consumption and Production Research

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