1st Edition

Transdisciplinary Research, Sustainability, and Social Transformation Governance and Knowledge Co-Production

By Tom Dedeurwaerdere Copyright 2024
196 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book addresses the gap in the existing literature on the governance of transdisciplinary research partnerships in transformational sustainability research by exploring the governance of knowledge co-production in coupled socio-ecological system dynamics. Multiple social and ecological crises raise new cross-sectoral research questions that call for an evolution in contemporary science in... Read more

1. Transdisciplinary research partnerships for environmental justice and citizenship within planetary boundaries     

2. Overcoming collective action failures in knowledge co-production practices     

3. Generating actionable knowledge outputs through collaborative research co-design    

4. Social learning among actors with incommensurable value perspectives on sustainability transformations         

5. Developing integrated boundary-crossing organizational networks        

6. Implementing knowledge co-production on sustainability transformations in academia and beyond   

Biography

Tom Dedeurwaerdere is Professor of the Theory of Governance and Philosophy of Science at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He has extensively published in scholarly journals on the organization of scientific research commons and collective action for sustainability transformations. His previous books include Social Innovation in the Service of Social and Ecological Transformation: The Rise of the Enabling State (with Olivier de Schutter, 2022), Governing Digitally Integrated Genetic Resources, Data, and Literature: Global Intellectual Property Strategies for a Redesigned Microbial Research Commons (with Jerome H. Reichman and Paul F. Uhlir, 2016) and Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability (2014).