Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary failures : lessons learned from cautionary tales
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Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary failures : lessons learned from cautionary tales
(Research and teaching in environmental studies)
Routledge, 2021
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Unlike other volumes in the current literature, this book provides insight for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary researchers and practitioners on what doesn't work. Documenting detailed case studies of project failure matters, not only as an illustration of experienced challenges but also as projects do not always follow step-by-step protocols of preconceived and theorised processes.
Bookended by a framing introduction by the editors and a conclusion written by Julie Thompson Klein, each chapter ends with a reflexive section that synthesizes lessons learned and key take-away points for the reader. Drawing on a wide range of international case studies and with a strong environmental thread throughout, the book reveals a range of failure scenarios for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects, including:
* Projects that did not get off the ground;
* Projects that did not have the correct personnel for specified objectives;
* Projects that did not reach their original objectives but met other objectives;
* Projects that failed to anticipate important differences among collaborators.
Illustrating causal links in real life projects, this volume will be of significant relevance to scholars and practitioners looking to overcome the challenges of conducting interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.
Table of Contents
Theoretical and empirical perspectives on failure: an introduction
Rethinking failure: using design science theory and methods, including design thinking, for successful transdisciplinary health and social interventions
Part 1: Institutional environments associated with failure
Stem cells and serendipity: unburdening social scientists' feelings of failure
A fragile existence: a transdisciplinary food systems research program cut short
Over-promising and under-delivering: institutional and social networks influencing the emergence of urine diversion systems in Queensland, Australia
Part 2: Failures and responses associated with collaboration and stakeholder engagement
Failure and what to do next: lessons from the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative
Failure to consider local political processes and power relations in the development of a transdisciplinary research project plan: learning lessons from a stormy start
A week in the life of a transdisciplinary researcher: failures in research to support policy for water quality management in New Zealand's South Island
Part 3: Personal reflection on failed initiatives through an autoethnographic lens
Reframing failure and the Indigenous doctoral journey
Transdisciplinary research: challenges, excessive demands, and a story of disquiet
Part 4: Failure in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary educational programs
The challenges of studying place: learning from failures of an experimental interdisciplinary and community-engaged environmental studies course
Transdisciplinary learning within tertiary institutions: a space to skin your knees
Learning to fail forward: operationalizing productive failure for tackling complex environmental problems
Failing and the perception of failure in student-driven transdisciplinary projects
Coda
Failure is an option: lessons for success
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