Identifying and addressing challenges faced by transdisciplinary research teams in climate change research

Gaziulusoy, İdil; Ryan, Chris; McGrail, Stephen; Chandler, Philippa; Twomey, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.08.049

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“…It has been found that intensive communication between the project participants and opportunities for informal exchange support mutual understanding. Having a variety of products and involving all parties in writing the project proposal from the beginning enhance the chances that a collaborative project will have a satisfactory outcome for all participants (Klein 2008;Gaziulusoy et al 2016;De Jong et al 2016;Hessels et al 2014). Several studies (e.g.…”

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How transdisciplinary projects influence participants’ ways of thinking: a case study on future landscape development

2018

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Transdisciplinary (TD) approaches have increasingly been promoted in the field of land-use research. However, the theoretical discourse about transdisciplinarity is far more advanced than its implementation in practice. In particular, empirical studies about the effects of concrete TD projects on the participants are rare. We evaluated joint knowledge generation among researchers and non-academics in a TD research programme on urban and landscape development. For the assessment we used standardised questionnaires, our own observations, and a simplified implementation of the 'most significant change' method. The evaluation revealed that the participants gained considerable TD knowledge through encountering different thought-styles and problem owners. They together developed a feeling of companionship, broadened their views on the issue and, consequently, attributed increased legitimacy to it. The following aspects of TD research were found to be successful as the programme: offered opportunities for enthusiasm; used a form of communication that promotes mutual trust; and provided boundary objects. Similar to other studies, we observed the creation of hybrid spaces and communities of research and practice where the participants could build up mutual trust, interact with other thought-styles, and jointly develop their TD knowledge.

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How transdisciplinary projects influence participants’ ways of thinking: a case study on future landscape development

2018

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“…Also, a closer recognition of the links between social and environmental factors has been urged e an 'eco-social' approach eas well as, relatedly, a greater co-operation between social and natural sciences (McMichael et al, 2015) in facing social inequalities in vulnerable countries that need to increase resilience to extreme events (Aparicio-Effen et al, 2016a, 2016bNagy et al, 2016). In this context, climate change impacts on health requires the articulation of transdisciplinary research, in the sense used by Gaziulusoy et al (2016), that is collaboration and coordination between researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds, intersectoral and interinstitutional, where universities can play a fundamental role (Leal Filho et al, 2018).…”

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Climate change and health: An analysis of causal relations on the spread of vector-borne diseases in Brazil

Filho

Bönecke

Spielmann

et al. 2018

Journal of Cleaner Production

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a b s t r a c tThe increases in greenhouse gas concentrations caused by anthropogenic activities such as industrial emissions, transport and burning of forests and other resources, recorded over the past decades, are known to have an impact on the global environment. In particular, this paper reviews the evidence that climate change has an impact on human health as a whole and on the spread of vector-borne diseases in particular. It offers an analysis of previous research on the connections between climate change and health, with a case study from Brazil, and lists some areas which may guide future policy-making.

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“…The theory of change defines the role of research to enable additional output within the development task (Thornton et al 2017). The people centered approach of action research organizes the process of innovation adoption toward the needs of evidence based knowledge dissemination (Gaziulusoy et al 2016, Graef et al 2014. This is in line with the need of farmers for fast success and increasing profit in order to improve their livelihoods.…”

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“…This is in line with the need of farmers for fast success and increasing profit in order to improve their livelihoods. Although entrepreneurship is at a low level in the CSS, we installed mechanisms of knowledge exchange that sought to encourage and support the propensity for experimentation, risk-taking, and for trying new things (Maru et al 2016, Barrett et al 2017, Gaziulusoy et al 2016, Graef et al 2014.…”

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Farmer innovation driven by needs and understanding: building the capacities of farmer groups for improved cooking stove construction and continued adaptation

Uckert

Hafner

Graef

et al. 2017

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Enhancing food security is one of the main goals of subsistence farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study investigates the implementation of improved loam-made cooking stoves and its contribution to coping and livelihood strategies. Controlled combustion, air as well as smoke flue, and heat insulation facilitate the more efficient fuel consumption of improved cooking stoves compared to traditional stoves-namely three stone fires. Although the majority of small-scale farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa rely on the free public good of firewood, the increasing time needed for collecting firewood implies high opportunity costs for productive members of the family. The primary outcomes for users of improved stoves are reduced fuel consumption, greater safety, saved time, and reduced smoke in the kitchen.The paper illustrates part of the output, outcome, and impact of a participatory action research approach for implementing improved cooking stoves. Special emphasis was put on enabling the villagers to construct their stoves without external support, hence having locally manufactured stoves made of mud, bricks, and dried grass. The impact pathway of improved cooking stoves followed the training-of-trainers concept, where members of the initially established farmer groups were trained to construct stoves on their own. Special focus was given to knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer in order to increase firewood efficiency and overall satisfaction of users of improved cook stoves. Encouraging the members to further adapt the stoves enabled them to scale-up the construction of improved cooked stoves into a business model and increase dissemination while creating income. Although many important benefits, like time and knowledge gain, were identified by the farmers after adoption of the new technology, we found adoption rates differed significantly between regions.

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Identifying and addressing challenges faced by transdisciplinary research teams in climate change research

Cited by 73 publications

References 38 publications

How transdisciplinary projects influence participants’ ways of thinking: a case study on future landscape development

How transdisciplinary projects influence participants’ ways of thinking: a case study on future landscape development

Climate change and health: An analysis of causal relations on the spread of vector-borne diseases in Brazil

Farmer innovation driven by needs and understanding: building the capacities of farmer groups for improved cooking stove construction and continued adaptation

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