Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Environment and Communication

Overview & Synopsis

This volume focuses on trandisciplinarity. The contributions reveal how transdisciplinarity arises in the involvement of multiple disciplines and lay, experiential, traditional, and artistic sources of knowledge as various stakeholders interact—"communicate"—in an attempt to address the wicked problems arising from sustainability challenges—from planning to education, from soil salinity to whale populations. Transdisciplinarity is also a frame of reference applied by the authors in their own research methods, by the reviewers, and by the editors in synthesizing insights across the contributions. This volume's selections were written and edited to argue their case to readers outside the core disciplines of the authors. A synthesizing Editorial identifies an emerging pattern in the pieces, consisting of elements of transdisciplinary practice.