Problemshed or Watershed? Participatory Modeling towards IWRM in North Ghana by William’s Daré, Jean-Philippe Venot, Christophe Le Page, Aaron Aduna

“…Finally, we argue that the context in which research is funded and conducted in the development sector constitutes a challenge for researchers to be “participants like any other” in the projects they coordinate, which constitutes a barrier to true transdisciplinarity.…”
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Identifying social science engagement within agroecology: Classifying transdisciplinary literature with a semi-automated textual classification method by Natalia Pinzón, Ryan E. Galt, Marcela Beatriz Baukloh Coronil

“…The field of agroecology is a prime example of transdisciplinarity. With roots in the biophysical sciences, social sciences, and peasant movements, publications in agroecology have been growing rapidly in recent decades. …”
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A transdisciplinary approach to understanding the causes of wicked problems such as the violent conflict in Rwanda by Andreas Velthuizen

“…The paper will make recommendations on how transdisciplinary research is required to determine the causes of violent conflict in an African context and how practitioners and academics should engage in transdisciplinarity. It was found that trans- disciplinary research is required to gain better insight into the causes of violent conflict in an African context. …”
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Biosemiotics as systems theory: an investigation into biosemiotics as the grounding for a new form of cultural analysis by Cannizzaro, Sara

“…By means of the concept of 'isomorphism as structural similarity' (Bertalanffy 1945) the thesis argues that biosemiotics and cybernetics/systems theory share a systems thinking which is grounded in 'transdisciplinarity', 'history' and 'function'. This thesis also argues that such a common methodological perspective is an instance of historical continuity due primarily to biosemiotics' and systems theory's involvement with Tartu-Moscow semiotics. …”
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DEMETRA RANKED AS B1 ON CAPES' REPORT "QUALIS PERIÓDICOS" by Shirley Donizete Prado, Fabiana Bom Kraemer

“…A wonderful end-of-the-year gift: recognition for the serious academic work as well as the consistent focus on transdisciplinarity that we have been devoting to since 2006, especially in the interface between Food and Nutrition and Human Sciences! …”
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Digital transformation of small and medium enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review by Mourine S. Achieng, Masike Malatji

“…In the SSA context, SMEs face numerous regional constraints that create barriers in their operations, such as limited access to profitable and value-added markets. Transdisciplinarity Contribution: To develop strategies for integrating technologies, it is critical to have a thorough understanding of SMEs’ operational context. …”
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METHODOLOGY OF NON-CLASSICAL AND POST-NON-CLASSICAL STUDIES OF SOCIAL SPACE by Marina V. Demidova

“…Lebedev, sociosynergetic and comparative approaches, philosophy of transdisciplinarity. The ideas of P. Bourdieu, G. Simmel, E. …”
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Predictors of female caregivers’ burden: An estimated conceptual model in low income settings by Yakubu A. Yakubu, De Wet Schutte

“…National health policies should reflect female caregivers’ circumstances. Transdisciplinarity Contribution: This article contributes to the improvement in community health.…”
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Research collaboration in asymmetric power relations: A study of postgraduate students’ views by Judy van Biljon, Samwel Mwapwele

“…The contribution is a conceptualisation of the main components representing research collaboration viewed in terms of personal capabilities, including the factors that influence collaboration. Transdisciplinarity contribution: Research collaboration is fundamental to promoting multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary research. …”
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Fostering Cross-Disciplinarity in Business Model Research by Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Romana Rauter, Christian Nielsen, Marco Montemari, Nikolay Dentchev, Niels Faber

“…Purpose: We illustrate how cross-disciplinarity in business model research (multi-, inter- and transdisciplinarity) can help scholars overcome silo-building and span disciplinary boundaries. …”
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Influencing Curriculum Development and Knowledge of Climate Change Issues in Universities: The Case of University Of Nigeria Nsukka by N Ozor, M C Madukwe

“…Results show that there is need to provide a clearer understanding of climate change issues; build capacity at individual and institutional levels for climate change adaptation; provide opportunity to attract donor funds for teaching, learning, research and community service; provide conducive environment for transdisciplinarity and shared thinking on climate change issues; and transform the future leaders of tomorrow (youths) by promoting the culture of innovation for climate change adaptation. …”
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Examining information and communication technology use in public primary schools in South Africa from the capability approach by Lebohang Mahlo, Zayd Waghid

“…This study contends that the White Paper on e-Education (2004) policy might benefit from the results, which could help to build or rethink programmes that encourage continual teacher training. Transdisciplinarity Contribution: This research shows that policymakers need to take into consideration the conversion factors that may impact teachers’ capabilities to deliver curriculum utilising ICTs. …”
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Systematic review: Decentralised health information systems implementation in sub-Saharan Africa by Oluwamayowa O. Ogundaini, Mourine S. Achieng

“…Future studies should investigate the processes for formulation and evaluation of health policies to actively redress the administrative issues associated with the current functional HIS in each African country. Transdisciplinarity Contribution: The paper contributes to the practical implications of implementing HIS in sub-Saharan African health systems by highlighting the contextual realities and data governance complexities that support a decentralised approach towards ensuring resilience and health security.…”
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Influencing Curriculum Development and Knowledge of Climate Change Issues in Universities: The Case of University Of Nigeria Nsukka by N Ozor, M C Madukwe

“…Results show that there is need to provide a clearer understanding of climate change issues; build capacity at individual and institutional levels for climate change adaptation; provide opportunity to attract donor funds for teaching, learning, research and community service; provide conducive environment for transdisciplinarity and shared thinking on climate change issues; and transform the future leaders of tomorrow (youths) by promoting the culture of innovation for climate change adaptation. …”
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Editorial: Weaving Hybrid Futures by Anca-Simona Horvath, Laura Beloff, Lykke Brogaard Bertel, Judit Boros, Lorena Cebolla Sanahuja, Pia Fricker, Foad Hamidi, Martin Michael Hanczyc, Elizabeth Jochum, Markus Löchtefeld, Timothy Robert Merritt, Karina Vissonova

“…How can we use often conflicting conceptions to imagine and design sustainable futures? How can transdisciplinarity inform education and equip future students with a sustainability mindset to face the challenges of their time? …”
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Proteomes Are of Proteoforms: Embracing the Complexity by Katrina Carbonara, Martin Andonovski, Jens R. Coorssen

“…To enable a next-generation approach, we suggest that advances lie in transdisciplinarity via integration of current proteomic methods to yield a unified discipline that capitalizes on the strongest qualities of each. …”
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Operationalizing the Nexus Approach: Insights From the SIM4NEXUS Project by Eunice Pereira Ramos, Dimitris Kofinas, Caroline Sundin, Floor Brouwer, Chrysi Laspidou

“…The studies were conducted under similar conditions (e.g., timeframe and multidisciplinary teams of experts and dialogues with practitioners from policy and business). We find that transdisciplinarity and the integration of qualitative and quantitative methods are vital elements in Nexus assessments for policy support. …”
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Reaching the Rest: Embedding Sustainability in Undergraduate Student Learning by John Robinson, Ayako Ariga, Sean Cameron, Ryan Wang

“…Four key themes have emerged in this literature that are relevant to the goal of developing sustainability pedagogy relevant to all students: (i) the organizational framework for the content of sustainability pedagogy, (ii) the conceptualisation and teaching of inter-transdisciplinarity, (iii) the relative merits of compulsory or voluntary sustainability programming, and (iv) the role of course inventories. …”
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An investigation into the knowledge–sharing practices for innovation in higher education institutions of developing countries by Alfred H. Mazorodze, Peter Mkhize

“…Unremarkably, 23.3% of the participants confirmed that their institutions do not have a knowledge-sharing culture. Transdisciplinarity Contribution: Higher education institutions have not fully exploited the knowledge-sharing practices that could make them more innovative. …”
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The Tolerance as the Ethic Foundation of Social Economy into the Perspective of the Perspective of the “Included Third” in the Contextuality of Transmodernity by Antoniu Alexandru Flandorfer

“…The present society which is in the moment of a deep revolution that is marked by the evolutionary progress of modernity, passes away by its humanized period through the intrusion into the collective imaginary of an archetype which was increased by the postmodern era, that could suffer a transmutation from the intrusive Lupasco’s trialectic, as an appeal of transdisciplinarity where the ethics, the politics and the social can represent the onthological coordinates, whereupon the aporethical antinomies inhesion to mundaneity are retrospected it, but the tolerance has a soteorological function ant act as “T-state”, being the unifier principle of them.…”
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