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Author:   Dena Fam (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) ,  Jane Palmer (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) ,  Chris Riedy (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) ,  Cynthia Mitchell (University of Technology, Sydney)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9781138119703

ISBN 10:   1138119709
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   02 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. Transdisciplinary research and practice for sustainability outcomes: Introduction 2. Transdisciplinarity and sustainability: patterns of definition Part 1: Working in the transdisciplinary space: Navigating diverse knowledges to create change 3. Beginning at the end: the outcome spaces framework to guide purposive transdisciplinary research 4. Tools for transdisciplinary research 5. Transdisciplinarity as transformation: a cybersystemic thinking in practice perspective Part 2: Developing and supporting researchers in transdisciplinary practice 6. Being a transdisciplinary researcher: skills and dispositions fostering competence in transdisciplinary research and practice 7. Seeding a new transdisciplinary community of practice 8. Supervising transdisciplinary doctoral research: adopting transcendent and transgressive supervisory strategies Catherine Manathunga 9. Assessing transdisciplinary doctoral research: quality criteria and implications for the examination process Part 3: Creating change through transdisciplinary research and practice 10. Transforming cities: securing food and clean waterways through a transdisciplinary phosphorus approach Dana Cordell, Genevieve Metson and David Iwaniec et al. 11. Creating knowledge: visual communication design research in transdisciplinary projects 12. Trandisciplinarity in action: four guidelines, a reflexive framework and their application to improving community sanitation governance in Indonesia 13. Ethnography as transdisciplinary inquiry: two stories of adaptation and resilience from Aceh, Indonesia 14. ‘To be green, clean and beautiful is progressive’: reframing sustainability through transdisciplinary research and practice in northern Việt Nam 15. Transdisciplinarity as an emergent property in an agricultural research for development project on the East India Plateau 16. Trouble at the disciplinary divide: a knowledge ecologies analysis of a co-design project with native Alaskan communities 17. Future directions: a trans-anthropo-logic of transdisciplinarity

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Dena Fam is Research Director and UTS Chancellor’s Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Jane Palmer is Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow (Community Futures) at the Institute for Resilient Regions, University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Chris Riedy is Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Cynthia Mitchell is Deputy Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

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