TD Library - Books
Leading Change in a Complex World: Transdisciplinary Perspectives
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A complete open-access book presenting transdisciplinarity and how it is viewed in different academic areas. The book is divided in three sections:
Part I: Complex World
Part II: Relational Leadership
Part III: Dynamic Change
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/91085aba-5021-4d78-b286-e3c3350f449a/978-952-03-0845-2.pdf
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Building with Nature & Beyond
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An interactive book exploring the use of natural materials and ecological processes in achieving effective and sustainable hydraulic infrastructure designs, distilling Engineering and Ecological Design Principles and Social Design Principles. The book is divided in three main topics:
1. Engineering: Building with nature
2. Beyond engineering: Building with nature
3. Closing message
LANGUAGE: English
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Developing Change Agents
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This book seeks to provide foundations for empowering sustainability leaders in institutional settings who can scale solutions to meet the current and future wicked environmental, social, and political challenges. The book is divided in two main parts:
1. Best practices and lessons learned along the
way of developing graduate leadership sustainability programs
2. Transdisciplinary and
interdisciplinary approaches to graduate leadership programs with a sustainability focus
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/developing-change-agents/view
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Knowing Home. Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science
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A book presenting an overview of why traditional knowledge and wisdom should be included in the science curriculum. The book intends to be a window into the science and technologies of the Indigenous peoples who live in Northwestern North America. It discusses Indigenous worldviews, culturally responsive teaching strategies, curriculum models, and evaluative techniques. The book is divided in four parts:
Part I: Theoretical, Historical, and Epistemological Foundations
Part II: Understanding and Acknowledging Indigenous Science
Part III: Understanding Children’s Ideas, Beliefs and Worldviews
Part IV: Indigenous Science Curriculum
LANGUAGE: English
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Transdisciplinary Learning for Sustainable Development
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A book aimed at university lecturers of all disciplines who want to incorporate sustainable development into individual university courses, modules, and/or entire study programs. It covers five topics:
1. How Can Science and Education Help Shape Sustainable Development?
2. Transdisciplinary Learning for Sustainable Development: A Quick Guide
3. Developing Effective ESD
4. Tips and Tools: Teaching-Learning Strategies for Active Learning
5. Tips and Tools: Teaching-Learning Strategies for Active Learning
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://boris.unibe.ch/157343/8/150dpi_online_E_tdLearnSD.pdf
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Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability
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The Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability book investigates core concepts, tools, and institutional strategies of transdisciplinary sustainability science. Prominent research programs within heterodox economics, the environmental sciences, and transition theory are explored through diverse case studies, revealing challenges and advancements for transdisciplinary research.
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781783474554.xml
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Transdisciplinary Knowledge Co-production for Sustainable Cities
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The Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability book presents core concepts, tools, and institutional strategies of transdisciplinary sustainability science. Prominent research programs within heterodox economics, the environmental sciences, and transition theory are explored through diverse case studies, revealing challenges and advancements for transdisciplinary research.
LANGUAGE: English
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Urban Planet. Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities
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A book that includes several reflections on the types and ways of knowing needed to pursue urban research and urban policy making.
LANGUAGE: English
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Book Club Facilitation Guide: How to be an Antiracist
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It is a guide designed to offer readers the opportunity to reflect on the significance of racism in their own lives. It uses the transdisciplinary concept as one of the lenses to avoid racism and It is divided into 4 acts:
Act 1: Self and Schemas at an individual level.
Act 2: Society and Systems at a structural level.
Act 3: Schools and Syllabus within academic communities, curriculum, and classrooms.
Act 4: Solidarity and Success at an aspirational level.
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://opentextbc.ca/bccantiracistbookclubhub/
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Enabling the City
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Enabling the City is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contribute to urban transformation at a local level in the 21st century, striking a balance between enthusiastic support for such transformational potential and a cautious note regarding the persistent challenges to the ethos as well as the practice of inter and transdisciplinarity.
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50192
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Terra Incognita: White paper on transdisciplinarity and new forms of research in the Spanish Science and Technology System
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Concepts and reflections on transdisciplinary practices in Spanish academic contexts.
LANGUAGE: Spanish
LINK: https://pressbooks.pub/terraincognita/
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Conceptualizing cultural hybridization: a transdisciplinary approach
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Transdisciplinary perception of hybridity. It emphasizes the historicity of transcultural flows and entanglements. It provides the juxtaposition of different notions of hybridization and specific methodologies.
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://archive.org/details/conceptualizingc0000unse/mode/2up
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Global community? : transnational and transdisciplinary exchanges
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The humanities and social sciences have explored the existence and possibilities of the human community on a global scale. But these investigations have been developed within separate academic disciplines, with little exchange of ideas across disciplinary boundaries. Global Community? Transnational and Transdisciplinary Exchanges draw together a variety of perspectives to offer an interdisciplinary and critical examination of the global community's past and present.
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://archive.org/details/globalcommunityt0000unse/mode/2up
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Reflections About Complexity and Transdisciplinary
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This work includes reflections that point towards the theoretical-methodological understanding of complexity and transdisciplinary and its possible applications in specific or global phenomena and problems. The set of these texts seeks to disseminate the results of the process of inquiry and reflection carried out by the authors, thereby intending to contribute to the development of scientific and humanistic research.
LANGUAGE: Spanish
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Knowledge translation in context: indigenous, policy, and community settings
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The main goal of knowledge translation (KT) is to ensure that diverse communities benefit from academic research, resulting in improved social and health outcomes. But despite growing interest in researcher-user collaborations, little is known about what makes or breaks these types of relationships. Knowledge Translation in Context is an essential tool for researchers who want to learn how to be effective partners in the KT process.
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://archive.org/details/knowledgetransla0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up
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Braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants
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In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation." As she explores these themes, she circles toward a central argument: awakening a wider ecological consciousness requires acknowledging and celebrating our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return"
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://archive.org/details/braidingsweetgra0000kimm/mode/2up
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Transdisciplinary research and participatory action research
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The book essentially renews aspects that intertwine education and the decolonizing forms of research and ventures into questions of our relationships with the natural world through a perspective that goes beyond the simple safeguarding of the environment.
LANGUAGE: Spanish
LINK: https://copitarxives.fisica.unam.mx/SC0008ES/SC0008ES.pdf
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Problematising Local Indigenous Community Research
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This book deliberates on developments related to Knowledge Pathing: Multi-, Inter- and Trans-Disciplining in Social Sciences. The book explores the value of this vexed concept in advancing the course for multi-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary perspectives, methodologies, theories, and epistemologies of knowledge pathing. The discourse on knowledge pathing remains critical in advancing debates and dialogues in the humanities and social sciences spaces of research and studies. This book makes a significant contribution to the scholarly understanding of indigenous knowledge research by focusing on problematizing local indigenous community research from Afro-sensed perspectives.
LANGUAGE: English
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Rivers of the Anthropocene
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This volume presents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, policymakers, and community organizers working to produce innovative transdisciplinary research on global freshwater systems. In an attempt to bridge disciplinary divides, the essays in this volume address the challenge in studying the intersection of biophysical and human sociocultural systems in the age of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch of humans’ own making. Featuring contributions from authors in a rich diversity of disciplines—from toxicology to archaeology to philosophy— this book is an excellent resource for students and scholars studying both freshwater systems and the Anthropocene.
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31005/1/640458.pdf
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Sustainable Land Management in a European Context
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This open-access book presents and discusses current issues and innovative solution approaches for land management in a European context. Manifold sustainability issues are closely interconnected with land use practices. Throughout the world, we face increasing conflict over the use of land as well as competition for land. Drawing on experience in sustainable land management gained from seven years of the FONA program (Research for Sustainable Development, conducted under the auspices of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research), the book stresses and highlights co-design processes within the “co-creation of knowledge”, involving collaboration in transdisciplinary research processes between academia and other stakeholders
LANGUAGE: English
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Transdisciplinarity: the intimate nature of scientific education
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This book is aimed at students and professionals in areas that deal directly with people, especially Education and Health. It aims to present subsidies for the effective implementation of a team operating in all disciplines, starting with internal changes and then moving to group actions.
LANGUAGE: Portuguese
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Water, Sharing, and Culture of Peace
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The book proposes a discussion on water management in Brazil and in the world. Furthermore, in a truly transdisciplinary way, it explores a valuable idea: that peace and cooperation can lead us to reinvent our relationship with water now and in the future.
LANGUAGE: Portuguese
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Transdisciplinarity and Education of the Future
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We understand the urgency of preparing future generations to live with the other, the different, the diversity, the human and the non-human, since the planetary destiny involves all biological, physical, and social life in an integral and dynamic way. Hence the transdisciplinary nature of the event, which required the crossing of researchers from different training and specialization horizons (Medicine, Psychiatry, and Psychology; Education, Social Sciences and Communication; Philosophy, Language, and Biology; Literature, Image, and Sound Arts ). , etc.) whose reflections go through disciplinary fragmentation and converge on some major fundamental questions to think about the education of the future.
CHAPTER XIII: Transdisciplinarity and co-production of knowledge: A logical proposition
LANGUAGE: Portuguese
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