In the face of planetary crises – from biodiversity loss to climate change to food security – interdisciplinary approaches promise effective and just responses through equal collaboration. However, this methodology creates complex challenges by bringing together different actors with disparate frameworks, such as scientists, indigenous and local communities, and policy makers. Successful cooperation between these actors requires engagement with different forms of knowledge, worldviews, values, and positions of power.In the book The Interdisciplinary Transformation, David Ludwig and Charbel N. Al-Hani brings insights from philosophy of science and empirical action research to address these challenges through a framework based on partial interventions. On the one hand, this framework highlights the overlapping interests and perspectives of actors, providing common ground for cooperation and mutual understanding. On the other hand, it emphasizes biases that require dealing with differences and tensions between these parties. This book addresses epistemological and existential issuesand fundamental policy issues related to interdisciplinarity through a cross-disciplinary framework, seeking a transformative vision for collaborative science in the face of planetary crises.
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