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Baker V, Ataria J, Ankeny R, Bray H. Transdisciplinary science and the importance of Indigenous knowledge. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2024; 20:805-816. [PMID: 37772337 DOI: 10.1002/ieam.4847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2022] [Revised: 09/13/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/30/2023]
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As we move ever closer to the brink of global environmental collapse, it is vital that we work collaboratively and collectively as global, national, and local communities to design multiscale change. Protecting future generations and reversing (or substantively slowing) the current trends require rapid sustainable progress at the required scale. It is more urgent than ever that we understand and more fully realize the power of transdisciplinary (Td) research to support sustainable practice. A defining factor of Td is the focus on collaboration and codesign and the extent that participation and attention to local context is integral to the knowledge building. Specifically, there is greater ability for community knowledge, values, and aspirations to influence and shape research inquiries to effect meaningful change in real-world decision-making and outcomes. Business-as-usual (BAU) approaches that perpetuate unequal knowledge sharing and dismiss other forms of knowledge beyond traditional science no longer suffice. Transdisciplinary approaches seek to achieve and support sustainable change, but the extent of transformation required to meet ecological protection and regenerative sustainability requires very different operating models for knowing and doing science than the limited traditions of positivist science. However, these powerful defaults and operating paradigms are more deeply ingrained than we might realize, and so challenges persist. This article illustrates how Td science differs from typical research paradigms, particularly in terms of the underlying epistemology; the focus on knowledge and/or power; attention to boundaries and scope; and the degree to which local knowledge, context, and community participation underpin the research process. Active conversations are required to better identify and overcome fundamental challenges for science and Td research approaches to support the necessary transformational change. Importantly, we suggest that Indigenous partnerships, knowledge, and values are vital in achieving the potential of Td research to provide transformational interventions to address complex social and environmental issues such as pollution. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2024;20:805-816. © 2023 SETAC.
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- Virginia Baker
- Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited (ESR), Porirua, Aotearoa, New Zealand
- School of Humanities, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Cawthron Institute, Nelson, Aotearoa, New Zealand
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- School of Humanities, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- School of Biological Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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Frantzeskaki N, Childers DL, Pickett S, Hoover FA, Anderson P, Barau A, Ginsberg J, Grove M, Lodder M, Lugo AE, McPhearson T, Muñoz-Erickson TA, Quartier M, Schepers S, Sharifi A, van de Sijpe K. A transformative shift in urban ecology toward a more active and relevant future for the field and for cities. Ambio 2024:10.1007/s13280-024-01992-y. [PMID: 38643343 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-01992-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2023] [Revised: 11/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/22/2024]
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This paper builds on the expansion of urban ecology from a biologically based discipline-ecology in the city-to an increasingly interdisciplinary field-ecology of the city-to a transdisciplinary, knowledge to action endeavor-an ecology for and with the city. We build on this "prepositional journey" by proposing a transformative shift in urban ecology, and we present a framework for how the field may continue this shift. We conceptualize that urban ecology is in a state of flux, and that this shift is needed to transform urban ecology into a more engaged and action based field, and one that includes a diversity of actors willing to participate in the future of their cities. In this transformative shift, these actors will engage, collaborate, and participate in a continuous spiral of knowledge → action → knowledge spiral and back to knowledge loop, with the goal of co producing sustainable and resilient solutions to myriad urban challenges. Our framework for this transformative shift includes three pathways: (1) a repeating knowledge → action → knowledge spiral of ideas, information, and solutions produced by a diverse community of agents of urban change working together in an "urban sandbox"; (2) incorporation of a social-ecological-technological systems framework in this spiral and expanding the spiral temporally to include the "deep future," where future scenarios are based on a visioning of seemingly unimaginable or plausible future states of cities that are sustainable and resilient; and (3) the expansion of the spiral in space, to include rural areas and places that are not yet cities. The three interrelated pathways that define the transformative shift demonstrate the power of an urban ecology that has moved beyond urban systems science and into a realm where collaborations among diverse knowledges and voices are working together to understand cities and what is urban while producing sustainable solutions to contemporary challenges and envisioning futures of socially, ecologically, and technologically resilient cities. We present case study examples of each of the three pathways that make up this transformative shift in urban ecology and discuss both limitations and opportunities for future research and action with this transdisciplinary broadening of the field.
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- Niki Frantzeskaki
- Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Vening Meinesz Building A, Princetonlaan 8a, 3584 CB, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- School of Sustainability, WCPH 442, Arizona State University, POB 877904, Tempe, AZ, 85287-7904, USA
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- Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Box AB, Millbrook, NY, 12545, USA
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- Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC, 28223, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7707, South Africa
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- Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Bayero University Kano, PMB 3011, Kano, Nigeria
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- Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Box AB, Millbrook, NY, 12545, USA
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- Baltimore Urban Field Station, USDA Forest Service, 5523 Research Park Drive, Suite 350, Baltimore, MD, 21228, USA
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- Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burg. Oudlaan 50, Mandeville Building, T16-42, 3062 PA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- International Urban Field Station, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, 1201 Calle Ceiba, Jardín Botánico Sur, Río Piedras, PR, 00926-1115, USA
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- Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Box AB, Millbrook, NY, 12545, USA
- Urban Systems Lab, The New School, 79 Fifth Avenue, 16 Fl., New York, NY, 10003, USA
- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- International Urban Field Station, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, 1201 Calle Ceiba, Jardín Botánico Sur, Río Piedras, PR, 00926-1115, USA
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- Department of Environment and Sustainable Development, Stadsplein 1, 3600, Genk City, Belgium
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- Department of Environment and Sustainable Development, Stadsplein 1, 3600, Genk City, Belgium
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- The IDEC Institute, Hiroshima University, 1-5-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8529, Japan
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- Department of Environment and Sustainable Development, Stadsplein 1, 3600, Genk City, Belgium
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Pickett STA, Frantzeskaki N, Andersson E, Barau AS, Childers DL, Hoover FA, Lugo AE, McPhearson T, Nagendra H, Schepers S, Sharifi A. Shifting forward: Urban ecology in perspective. Ambio 2024:10.1007/s13280-024-02007-6. [PMID: 38642313 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02007-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/22/2024]
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The world has become urban; cities increasingly shape our worldviews, relation to other species, and the large-scale, long-term decisions we make. Cities are nature, but they need to align better with other ecosystems to avoid accelerating climate change and loss of biodiversity. We need a science to guide urban development across the diverse realities of global cities. This need can be met, in part, by shifts in urban ecology and its linkages to related sciences. This perspective is a "synthesis of syntheses", consolidating ideas from the other articles in the Special Section. It re-examines the role of urban ecology, and explores its integration with other disciplines that study cities. We conclude by summarizing the next steps in the ongoing shift in urban ecology, which is fast becoming an integral part of urban studies.
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- Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Vening Meinesz Building A, Princetonlaan 8a, 3485 CB, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme and Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), University of Helsinki, Viikinkaari 1, P.O. Box 65, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Research Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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- Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Bayero University Kano, PMB 3011, Kano, Nigeria
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- School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, POB 877904, Tempe, AZ, 85287-7904, USA
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- Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC, 28223, USA
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- International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, 1201 Calle Ceiba, Jardín Botánico Sur, Río Piedras, PR, 00926-1115, USA
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- Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Box AB, Millbrook, NY, 12545, USA
- Urban Systems Lab, The New School, 79 Fifth Ave, 16 Floor, New York, NY, 10003, USA
- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability, Azim Premji University, Burugunte Village, Bikkanahalli Main Road, Sarjapura, Bangalore, IN, 562125, India
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- Department of Environment and Sustainable Development, Stadsplein 1, 3600, Genk City, Belgium
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- The IDEC Institute, Hiroshima University, 1-5-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8529, Japan
- School of Architecture and Design, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
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Pluchinotta I, Zhou K, Moore G, Salvia G, Belesova K, Mohajeri N, Hale J, Davies M, Zimmermann N. Co-producing knowledge on the use of urban natural space: Participatory system dynamics modelling to understand a complex urban system. J Environ Manage 2024; 353:120110. [PMID: 38325277 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2023] [Revised: 01/09/2024] [Accepted: 01/11/2024] [Indexed: 02/09/2024]
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Decision-makers are increasingly asked to act differently in how they respond to complex urban challenges, recognising the value in bringing together and integrating cross-disciplinary, cross-sectoral knowledge to generate effective solutions. Participatory modelling allows to bring stakeholders together, enhance knowledge and understanding of a system, and identify the impacts of interventions to a given problem. This paper uses an interdisciplinary and systems approach to investigate a complex urban problem, using a participatory System Dynamics modelling process as an approach to facilitate learning and co-produce knowledge on the factors influencing the use of urban natural space. Stakeholders used a Systems Dynamics model and interface, as a tool to collectively identify pathways for improving the use of space and simulating their impacts. Under the lens of knowledge co-production, the paper reflects how such mechanisms can lead to the co-production of knowledge and social learning. The findings also contribute to identify ways of increasing the value of urban natural space focusing on urban areas undergoing physical and social transformation, such as the Thamesmead case study, London, UK.
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- Irene Pluchinotta
- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Cutts BB, Vilá O, Bray LA, Harris A, Hornsby G, Goins H, McLean S, Crites M, Allen A, McMenamin N, Harlee T. Shifting terrains: Understanding residential contaminants after flood disasters. Sci Total Environ 2024; 907:167577. [PMID: 37839486 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2023] [Revised: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/17/2023]
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Flood disasters can induce the mass transport of soils and sediments. This has the potential to distribute contaminants and present novel combinations to new locations - including residential neighborhoods. Even when soil contaminants cannot be directly attributed to the disaster, data on bacterial and heavy metal(loids) can facilitate an environmentally just recovery by enabling reconstruction decisions that fill data gaps to minimize future exposure. These data-gathering interventions may be especially useful in poor, rural, and racially diverse communities where there is a high probability of exposure to multiple hazards and a potential dependency on the financial resources of disaster aid as a means of reducing chronic exposures to other environmental pollutants. At the same time, entering these post-disasters spaces is ethically complex. To acknowledge this complexity, we pilot a framework for work that gathers social-ecological hazard information while retaining a fair-minded approach to transdisciplinary work. Assembled a transdisciplinary team to recruit participants from 90 households subjected to flooding in the southeastern US. Participating households agreed to interviews to elicit flood experience and environmental health concerns, soil sampling for fecal bacteria (E. coli) and soil sampling for selected heavy metals and metalloids (Pb, As, Cd) at their flooded residence. Soil sampling found a wide range of E. coli concentrations in soil (0.4-1115.7 CFU/ dry gram). Heavy metal(loid)s were detected at most residences (As 97.9 %; Ca 25.5 %; Pb 100 %). Individually, heavy metal(loid) concentrations did not exceed regulatory thresholds. Hazard, risk, and mitigation concerns expressed during interviews reveal that integrated human-nature concepts complicate common understandings of how hazard perceptibility (smell, sight, touch, and information) affects research-action spaces. Qualitative analysis of interviews and field notes revealed that soil-related hazards addressed by our biophysical protocols were less salient than changes with direct causal associations with flooding. We conclude by discussing the potential for the social-ecological hazard information that is fair-minded and transdisciplinary (SHIFT) framework to advance environmentally just approaches to research-action spaces after disasters.
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- Bethany B Cutts
- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA; Center for Geospatial Analytics, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
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- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA; Department of Sociology and Anthropology, NC State University, 2800 Faucette Drive, Raleigh, NC, USA.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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Miranker M, Giordano A. Map silences and chronic humanitarian crises: Spatial patterns of migrant mortality in South Texas, 2009-2020. Forensic Sci Int 2023; 353:111861. [PMID: 37918320 DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2023.111861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2023] [Revised: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 10/18/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023]
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Forensic and humanitarian interventions deployed to address migrant death in US southwestern border states have become increasingly prevalent over the past four decades. In this paper we address two persistent issues specific to the Texas-Mexico border context. First, we present the first comprehensive geospatial analysis of migrant deaths in South Texas, establishing a twelve-year (2009-2020) mortality profile. And second, we introduce the concept of necrosilences and its implications to both forensic and humanitarian work and usage of geospatial tools. We applied ANOVA, spatial statistics, and cluster analysis to test the relationships of migrant mortality point locations throughout South Texas, an area comprised of ten counties with some of the highest reported migrant deaths in the state. Our findings demonstrated that unidentified human remains that corresponded to migrants were found most consistently in jurisdictions inland from the Mexican border. Further, the map visualizations highlighted vast areas seemingly devoid of migrant deaths. These "empty" areas are emblematic of necrosilences. That is, instances where there is a lack of access or accounting rather than no death incidences. We conclude by discussing the importance of visualizing necrosilences.
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- Molly Miranker
- Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA.
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- Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
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Kim J, de Leeuw E, Harris-Roxas B, Sainsbury P. Five urban health research traditions: A meta-narrative review. Soc Sci Med 2023; 336:116265. [PMID: 37820495 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2023] [Revised: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 09/22/2023] [Indexed: 10/13/2023]
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Urban health scholars explore the connection between the urban space and health through ontological perspectives that are shaped by their disciplinary traditions. Without explicit recognition of the different approaches, there are barriers to collaboration. This paper maps the terrain of the urban health scholarship to identify key urban health research traditions; and to articulate the main features distinguishing these different traditions. We apply a meta-narrative review guided by a bibliometric co-citation network analysis to the body of research on urban health retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection. Five urban health research traditions were identified: (1) sustainable urban development, (2) urban ecosystem services, (3) urban resilience, (4) healthy urban planning, and (5) urban green spaces. Each research tradition has a different conceptual and thematic perspective to addressing urban health. These include perspectives on the scale of the urban health issue of interest, and on the conceptualisation of the urban context and health. Additionally, we developed a framework to allow for better differentiation between the differing research traditions based on (1) perspectives of the urban system as complicated or complex, (2) the preferred locus of change as a function of structure and agency and (3) the geographic scale of the urban health issue that is addressed. These dimensions have even deeper implications for transdisciplinary collaboration as they are underpinned by paradigmatic differences, rather than disciplinary differences. We conclude that it is essential for urban health researchers to reflect on the different urban health approaches and seek coherence by understanding their similarities and differences. Such endeavours are required to produce and interpret transdisciplinary knowledge for the goal of improving health by transforming urban systems.
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- Jinhee Kim
- Centre for Primary Health Care & Equity, University of New South Wales, Australia.
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- Centre for Primary Health Care & Equity, University of New South Wales, Australia; Chaire d'Excellence en Recherche Canada 'Une Seule Santé Urbaine', École de Santé Publique Université de Montréal ESPUM, Québec, Canada; Healthy Urban Environments (HUE) Collaboratory, Maridulu Budyari Gumal Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise SPHERE, Australia.
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- School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Australia.
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- School of Medicine Sydney, University of Notre Dame, Australia.
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Mitrano DM, Bigalke M, Booth AM, Carteny CC, Coffin S, Egger M, Gondikas A, Hüffer T, Koelmans AA, Lahive E, Mattsson K, Reynaud S, Wagner S. Training the next generation of plastics pollution researchers: tools, skills and career perspectives in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field. Microplast nanoplast 2023; 3:24. [PMID: 37920865 PMCID: PMC10618369 DOI: 10.1186/s43591-023-00072-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2023] [Accepted: 09/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023]
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Plastics pollution research attracts scientists from diverse disciplines. Many Early Career Researchers (ECRs) are drawn to this field to investigate and subsequently mitigate the negative impacts of plastics. Solving the multi-faceted plastic problem will always require breakthroughs across all levels of science disciplinarity, which supports interdisciplinary discoveries and underpins transdisciplinary solutions. In this context, ECRs have the opportunity to work across scientific discipline boundaries and connect with different stakeholders, including industry, policymakers and the public. To fully realize their potential, ECRs need to develop strong communication and project management skills to be able to effectively interface with academic peers and non-academic stakeholders. At the end of their formal education, many ECRs will choose to leave academia and pursue a career in private industry, government, research institutes or non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Here we give perspectives on how ECRs can develop the skills to tackle the challenges and opportunities of this transdisciplinary research field and how these skills can be transferred to different working sectors. We also explore how advisors can support an ECRs' growth through inclusive leadership and coaching. We further consider the roles each party may play in developing ECRs into mature scientists by helping them build a strong foundation, while also critically assessing problems in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary context. We hope these concepts can be useful in fostering the development of the next generation of plastics pollution researchers so they can address this global challenge more effectively. Graphical Abstract
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- Denise M. Mitrano
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Universitätstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Applied Geoscience, Technical University of Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstrasse 9, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- SINTEF Ocean, Brattørkaia 17C, 7010 Trondheim, Norway
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- California State Water Resources Control Board, 1001 I St., Sacramento, CA 95605 USA
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- The Ocean Cleanup, Coolsingel 6, Rotterdam, 3011 AD The Netherlands
- Egger Research and Consulting, Ullmannstrasse 13a, 9014 St. Gallen, Switzerland
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- Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Environmental Geosciences, University of Vienna, Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen University, PO Box 47, Wageningen, 6700 DD the Netherlands
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- UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford, OX10 8BB UK
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- Department of Marine Science, University of Gothenburg, Fiskebäckskil, Sweden
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- Universite de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, E2S UPPA, CNRS, IPREM, UMR 5254 Pau, France
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- Institute for Analytical Research, Hochschule Fresenius, Limburgerstrasse 2, 65510 Idstein, Germany
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de Jersey AM, Lavers JL, Zosky GR, Rivers-Auty J. The understudied global experiment of pollution's impacts on wildlife and human health: The ethical imperative for interdisciplinary research. Environ Pollut 2023; 336:122459. [PMID: 37633432 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2023] [Revised: 08/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 08/28/2023]
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The global impact of pollution on human and wildlife health is a growing concern. The health impacts of pollution are significant and far-reaching yet poorly understood as no one field of research has the practices and methodologies required to encapsulate the diversity of these consequences. This paper advocates that interdisciplinary research is essential to comprehend the full extent of the impact of pollution. Medical and ecological research play a key role in investigating the health consequences of the pollution crisis, yet the wildlife experience is often neglected. This paper outlines how applying advanced techniques and expertise adapted in medical research to wildlife exposed to pollutants offers a unique perspective to understanding the full diversity of impacts to health. The challenges that impede the progress of this research include the lack of support for interdisciplinary research among funding streams, limitations in field-specific techniques, and a lack of communication between researchers from different disciplines. Of awarded funding from major national research councils across Australia, Europe, and the United States of America, only 0.5% is dedicated to pollution focused research. This is inclusive of laboratory equipment, mitigation strategies, quantification of environmental samples and health consequences research. Of that, 0.03% of funding is awarded to explaining the wildlife experience and documenting the health consequences observed despite being model organisms to environmentally and biologically relevant models for pollution exposure. This calls for a coordinated effort to overcome these hurdles and to promote interdisciplinary research in order to fully comprehend the consequences of pollution exposure and protect the health of humans, wildlife, and the environment. An interdisciplinary approach to this problem is timely given the magnitude of negative health consequences associated with exposure, the number of pollutants already present within the environment and the continual development of new compounds.
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- Alix M de Jersey
- Tasmanian School of Medicine, College of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, 7000, Australia
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- Bird Group, The Natural History Museum, Akeman Street, Tring, Hertfordshire, HP23 6AP, United Kingdom; Esperance Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation, 11A Shelden Road, Esperance, Western Australia, 6450, Australia.
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- Menzies Institute for Medical Research, College of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, 7000, Australia
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- Tasmanian School of Medicine, College of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, 7000, Australia
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Savadogo M, Dahourou LD, Ilboudo AK, Ilboudo SG, Zangré H, Tarnagda G, Souli Z, Combari AHB, Diarra R, Bidima M, Traoré MGB, Mandé CD, Sondo KA, de Balogh K. The Rabies Free Burkina Faso initiative: an example of how one health-oriented civil society organizations can contribute towards the achievement of the rabies zero by 30 goal. One Health Outlook 2023; 5:9. [PMID: 37480134 PMCID: PMC10362559 DOI: 10.1186/s42522-023-00086-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2023] [Accepted: 06/28/2023] [Indexed: 07/23/2023]
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While technologies, tools and expertise have proven that countries can be made safe from dog-mediated human rabies, the disease remains a major public health threat in Burkina Faso. The paper reports the experience and success stories of Rabies Free Burkina Faso, an initiative established in 2020 as an example of civil society organization that promotes One Health for integrated rabies control in Africa. As recommended in the Global strategic plan, rabies elimination requires a systematic One Health approach, enhancing pre-exposure and postexposure prophylaxis, dog population management, dog vaccination, awareness raising, diagnosis, surveillance, funding as well as policies and regulations. Rabies Free Burkina Faso was established on 28 September 2020 as not-for-profit organization and aims to strengthen the use of a One Health approach as a non-governmental, multidisciplinary initiative dedicated to promoting rabies elimination. Categories of interventions developed by Rabies Free Burkina Faso cover awareness raising, training and One Health capacity building, dog rabies vaccination, seeking vaccines and providing support, including financial resource to communities to ensure that bite victims are appropriately provided with post-exposure prophylaxis, research, community engagement and joint outbreak investigation in collaboration with competent authorities. Reported success stories confirm the relevance of roles that can be played by Rabies Free Burkina Faso supporting animal health and human health authorities in the fields of rabies control and One Health development in the country.
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- Madi Savadogo
- Rabies Free Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
- Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
- Fundamental and Applied Research for Animals and Health (FARAH), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium.
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- Rabies Free Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Institut des Sciences de l'Environnement et du Développement Rural, Université de Dédougou, Dédougou, Burkina Faso
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- Rabies Free Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- International Livestock Research Institute, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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- Rabies Free Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- International Livestock Research Institute, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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- Rabies Free Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Direction Générale des Services Vétérinaires, Ministère de l'Agriculture des Ressources Animales et Halieutiques, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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- Rabies Free Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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- Rabies Free Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Institut de l'Environnement et de la Recherche Agricole, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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- Rabies Free Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department Biomolecular Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Holzer JM, Orenstein DE. Organizational transformation for greater sustainability impact: recent changes in a scientific research infrastructure in Europe. Landsc Ecol 2023:1-15. [PMID: 37362204 PMCID: PMC10079494 DOI: 10.1007/s10980-023-01624-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2022] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Context Scholars across holistic, transdisciplinary, place-based fields of research, such as landscape ecology and social ecology, have increasingly called for an 'all-hands-on-deck' approach for transformations toward greater sustainability of social-ecological systems. This Perspective showcases organizational transformation toward sustainability in the context of a research network dedicated to place-based, social-ecological research in Europe. Objectives Using the European LTER research infrastructure (eLTER RI) as a case, we analyze recent organizational-level shifts motivated by desires to increase sustainability impact. These shifts include knowledge integration between the natural and social sciences, stakeholder engagement, and a reformulation of administrative guidelines and practices. Methods Following a program evaluation, new conversations led to new initiatives in the eLTER RI. As researchers who were involved in the program evaluation and the development of new initiatives, we rely on our professional experience and participant observation to provide insights about this process and its developments. Results Recommendations from a recent assessment that critiqued and provided recommendations for the research infrastructure have recently been implemented in the eLTER RI. eLTER has leveraged a unique and timely opportunity-formal recognition and project funding by the EU-to upscale and standardize its infrastructure by creating novel protocols and enacting steps towards implementation. Conclusions This Perspective demonstrates how eLTER's research agenda and related protocols have evolved to better integrate multiple knowledge types, promote stakeholder integration into research, and foster greater equity and reflexivity in doing science, all of which are considered necessary to increase sustainability impact. We conclude by considering current and potential future challenges.
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- Jennifer M. Holzer
- Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1 Canada
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- Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa, Israel
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Hirot F, Ali A, Azouvi P, Balogh S, Lemarchand P, Petat F, Godart N, Lesieur P. [Suicide attempts with a violent method: Experience of a transdisciplinary psychiatric ward combining psychiatric and somatic care]. Encephale 2023; 49:158-164. [PMID: 35120752 DOI: 10.1016/j.encep.2021.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2021] [Revised: 11/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Suicide is the second leading cause of death in young adults. Suicide attempts by violent methods predict later completed suicide and premature mortality. Suicide prevention is a major public health issue in this specific population. The French Student Health Foundation (FSEF) developed a psychiatric ward that includes psychiatric and somatic approaches. This transdisciplinary unit provides mixed psychiatric and rehabilitation treatments for those persons who have attempted suicide and have severe somatic injuries. METHODS We conducted a retrospective study including all subjects admitted into the transdisciplinary unit from 1st January 2011 to 31 December 2017, after a suicide attempt by jumping from a height, in front of a moving object, or by crashing of a motor vehicle. Data was obtained from the medical and administrative records of the clinic. RESULTS In total, 215 persons were admitted into the transdisciplinary unit after a suicide attempt by a violent mean. Among them, 91.6% had jumped from a height, 7.4% had jumped in front of a train or a metro and 0.9% had crashed a motor vehicle. They were on average 25.5years old and 50.2% were men. 45.1% had a diagnosis of schizophrenic disorders and 34.4% of mood disorders. A total of 35.6% presented at least one previous suicide attempt, and among them 40.3% had previously attempted suicide with a violent mean. Substance abuse, mostly alcohol and/or cannabis, featured in 40.8% of subject history. The subjects hospitalised in the transdisciplinary unit had multiple, severe injuries: 78.1% had spine fractures, 69.8% had lower limb fractures, 47.9% had pelvic fractures and 43.3% had upper limb fractures. Moreover, 25.5% of them had sacral root damages. The length of stay averaged 184days and varied in a large range (less than a month to more than two years). The Activities of Daily Living scores were higher than 3 (out of a maximum score of 4) reflecting an important need of assistance. These scores decreased significantly during the hospitalisation for dressing, feeding, continence and locomotion but remained high for comportment and communication. At discharge, the physical sequelae were still important: 61% of people hospitalised had pain that required step 2 or 3 analgesics, 44% had analgesics for neuropathic pain, 80% had lower limb impairments, most often with walking limitation, and 26% had continence disorders. The psychotropic treatments at discharge were related to the psychiatric disorders observed and included 42% antidepressants, 63% neuroleptics and 16% mood stabilizers. CONCLUSION This study highlights the severity of the somatic and psychiatric disorders affecting people who are admitted into this transdisciplinary unit. These subjects who have attempted suicide require particular care with multidisciplinary management in order to promote their rehabilitation, reintegration and prevent a suicide reattempt.
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- F Hirot
- Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Inserm, UMR 1018, université Paris-Saclay, hôpital Paul-Brousse, 94807 Villejuif cedex, France; Service hospitalo-universitaire de santé mentale de l'adolescent et du jeune adulte (SMAJA), Fondation Santé des Etudiants de France, 75014 Paris, France; UFR Simone Veil-Santé, université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France.
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- Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Inserm, UMR 1018, université Paris-Saclay, hôpital Paul-Brousse, 94807 Villejuif cedex, France; Service hospitalo-universitaire de santé mentale de l'adolescent et du jeune adulte (SMAJA), Fondation Santé des Etudiants de France, 75014 Paris, France
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- Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Inserm, UMR 1018, université Paris-Saclay, hôpital Paul-Brousse, 94807 Villejuif cedex, France; Service de médecine physique et de réadaptation, hôpital Raymond-Poincaré, AP-HP, 92380 Garches, France
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- Service transdisciplinaire, clinique fondation santé des étudiants de France de Bouffémont, 95570 Bouffémont, France
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- Service transdisciplinaire, clinique fondation santé des étudiants de France de Bouffémont, 95570 Bouffémont, France
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- Service transdisciplinaire, clinique fondation santé des étudiants de France de Bouffémont, 95570 Bouffémont, France
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- Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Inserm, UMR 1018, université Paris-Saclay, hôpital Paul-Brousse, 94807 Villejuif cedex, France; Service hospitalo-universitaire de santé mentale de l'adolescent et du jeune adulte (SMAJA), Fondation Santé des Etudiants de France, 75014 Paris, France; UFR Simone Veil-Santé, université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France
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- Service transdisciplinaire, clinique fondation santé des étudiants de France de Bouffémont, 95570 Bouffémont, France
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Archibald MM, Lawless MT, de Plaza MAP, Kitson AL. How transdisciplinary research teams learn to do knowledge translation (KT), and how KT in turn impacts transdisciplinary research: a realist evaluation and longitudinal case study. Health Res Policy Syst 2023; 21:20. [PMID: 36944997 PMCID: PMC10032009 DOI: 10.1186/s12961-023-00967-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2022] [Accepted: 02/17/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Transdisciplinary research and knowledge translation are increasingly regarded as key concepts underpinning applied research across the health and social sciences, due to their presumed potential in addressing complex, "wicked" problems and improving the use of research in practice and policy, respectively. Despite sharing an impact mandate, the relationship between transdisciplinary research collaboration and knowledge translation remains unclear. In response, we examined the relationship between transdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge translation to generate these understandings with a view towards maximizing the impact of collaborative efforts. METHODS We undertook a realist evaluation and longitudinal case study of a 5-year National Health and Medical Research Council-funded Centre of Research Excellence in Transdisciplinary Frailty Research. Data were collected between February 2017 and March 2020 over three rounds of theory development, refinement and testing using interviews, observation, document review and visual elicitation as data sources. The Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Adelaide approved this study. RESULTS Iterative analysis of narrative interviews and visual data led to the development of three overarching programme theories explicating the reciprocal relationship between KT understandings and transdisciplinary team process. These programme theories revolve around the concept of a network, which we define in alignment with extant theoretical literature on network mechanisms and complex networks as graphically representable networks of agents/people (nodes) joined by social relationships (links). Our findings demonstrate that under the right contextual conditions, transdisciplinary team members respond through an improved ability to (1) navigate the network, (2) negotiate the network and (3) mobilize the network. CONCLUSIONS This research demonstrates the reciprocity and mutually supportive relationship between transdisciplinary research and knowledge translation. Our findings suggest that embedding a collaborative knowledge translation framework and providing resources such as facilitation and distributed leadership within a transdisciplinary team can improve collaboration and support transdisciplinary research objectives.
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- Mandy M Archibald
- National Health and Medical Research Council Transdisciplinary Centre of Research Excellence in Frailty Research to Achieve Healthy Ageing, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
- Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, 5042, Australia.
- College of Nursing, Helen Glass Centre for Nursing, University of Manitoba, 99 Curry Place, Winnipeg, Canada.
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- National Health and Medical Research Council Transdisciplinary Centre of Research Excellence in Frailty Research to Achieve Healthy Ageing, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, 5042, Australia
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- National Health and Medical Research Council Transdisciplinary Centre of Research Excellence in Frailty Research to Achieve Healthy Ageing, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, 5042, Australia
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- National Health and Medical Research Council Transdisciplinary Centre of Research Excellence in Frailty Research to Achieve Healthy Ageing, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, 5042, Australia
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Webb R, O’Donnell T, Auty K, Bai X, Barnett G, Costanza R, Dodson J, Newman P, Newton P, Robson E, Ryan C, Stafford Smith M. Enabling urban systems transformations: co-developing national and local strategies. Urban Transform 2023; 5:5. [PMID: 36844612 PMCID: PMC9939254 DOI: 10.1186/s42854-023-00049-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/31/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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UNLABELLED Transformative urban development is urgent to achieve future sustainable development and wellbeing. Transformation can benefit from shared and cumulative learning on strategies to guide urban development across local to national scales, while also reflecting the complex emergent nature of urban systems, and the need for context-specific and place-based solutions. The article addresses this challenge, drawing on extensive transdisciplinary engagement and National Strategy co-development processes for Australia. This includes generation of two frameworks as boundary objects to assist such transdisciplinary strategy development. An 'enabling urban systems transformation' framework comprises four generic overarching transformation enablers and a set of necessary underpinning urban capacities. This also built cumulatively on other sustainability and urban transformation studies. A complementary 'knowledge for urban systems transformation' framework comprises key knowledge themes that can support an integrated systems approach to mission-focused urban transformations, such as decarbonising cities. The article provides insights on the transdisciplinary processes, urban systems frameworks, and scoping of key strategies that may help those developing transformation strategies from local to national scales. Science highlights • Transdisciplinary national urban strategy development is used to distil generic frameworks and strategy scopes with potential international application. • The frameworks also build on other published framings to support convergent, cumulative and transdisciplinary urban science. • The 'enabling transformations' and 'urban knowledge' frameworks include the perspective of those developing sustainable urban systems strategies. • The enabling framework also informs 'National Urban Policy' and 'Knowledge and Innovation Hub' strategies, and prevailing power imbalances. • The knowledge framework can help frame urban challenges, missions and knowledge programs. Policy and practice recommendations • An urban 'transformation imperative' and 'strategic response' can be co-developed from local to national scales. • Local initiative is crucial to drive urban strategies, but sustained national leadership with coherent policy across sectors and scales is also key. • Diversity in engagement participation and processes generates whole-of-urban-systems and local-to-national perspectives. • Urban solutions are context-specific but generic frameworks can help collaborative issue framing and responses. • Collaborative issue framing informed by generic frameworks can bring broader perspectives to context-specific and contested policy and practice issues. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s42854-023-00049-9.
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- Robert Webb
- Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions (ICEDS) and Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, HC Coombs Building, 9 Fellows Road, Acton, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia
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- Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions (ICEDS) and Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Building 141, Linnaeus Way, Acton, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia
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- University of Melbourne, 21-23 Railway Street, Euroa, VIC 3666 Australia
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- Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University, Frank Fenner Building, Linnaeus Way, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia
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- CSIRO Environment, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Clunies Ross Street, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia
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- Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London, Floor 7, Maple House, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7NF UK
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- Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, PO Box 2476, Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia
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- CUSP, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley, Perth, WA 6845 Australia
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- Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology, EW Building, Serpells Lane, Hawthorn, Melbourne, VIC 3122 Australia
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- Future Earth Australia, Ian Potter House, 9 Gordon Street, Acton, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia
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- School of Design, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, VIC 3001 Australia
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- CSIRO Environment, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia
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Martin AK, Green TL, McCarthy AL, Sowa PM, Laakso EL. Transdisciplinary allied health assessment for patients with stroke: a pre-/post- mixed methods study protocol. BMC Health Serv Res 2022; 22:1578. [PMID: 36564771 PMCID: PMC9789550 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-022-08926-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Transdisciplinary approaches can streamline processes and build workforce capacity by blurring traditional responsibilities and integrating aspects of care. Emerging evidence shows transdisciplinary approaches can improve time-efficiency, quality of care and cost-effectiveness across various healthcare settings, however no empirical study is based on an acute stroke unit. METHODS The SPIRIT checklist was used to guide the content of the research protocol. The study is a pragmatic pre-/post- mixed methods four-phase study with a 3-month follow up, based at the Mater Hospital Brisbane. Participants experiencing stroke symptoms will be recruited as they are admitted to the acute stroke unit. Patients presenting with mild stroke symptoms or Transient Ischaemic Attack will be allocated to Phase 1 (baseline) or Phase 2 (implementation), while patients presenting with moderate to severe stroke symptoms will be allocated to Phase 3 (baseline) or Phase 4 (implementation). Participants in baseline Phases 1 and 3 will receive standard allied health assessment, while participants in implementation Phases 2 and 4 will receive the novel transdisciplinary assessment. For the primary aim, allied health professionals will time their assessments to evaluate time taken to administer a novel transdisciplinary assessment, compared to usual discipline-specific assessments. Non-inferiority of the novel transdisciplinary assessment will also be explored in terms of patient safety, compliance to national standards, use of the assessment, and stakeholder perceptions. A retrospective medical record audit, staff focus group, patient/staff surveys, and patient phone interviews at 3-months will be completed. Quantitative results will be estimated using general linear and logistic regression models in Stata 15.1. Qualitative results will be analysed using frequency counts and NVivo software. An economic evaluation will be performed using three scopes including the allied health assessment, hospital admission, and patient outcomes at 3-months. DISCUSSION When designing the study, pragmatic factors related to staff willingness to be involved, patient safety, and existing clinical pathways/processes were considered. To address those factors, a co-design approach was taken, resulting in staff buy-in, clinically relevant outcome measures, and the pre-/post- four-phase study design. TRIAL REGISTRATION Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR), ACTRN12621000380897. Registered 06 April 2021 - retrospectively registered, https://www.anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?id=381339&isReview=true.
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- Aleysha K. Martin
- grid.1003.20000 0000 9320 7537Faculty of Medicine, Mater Research Institute – University of Queensland, QLD, Brisbane, Australia
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- grid.1003.20000 0000 9320 7537School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, The University of Queensland, QLD, Brisbane, Australia
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- grid.1003.20000 0000 9320 7537School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, Mater Research Institute – University of Queensland, QLD, Brisbane, Australia
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- grid.1003.20000 0000 9320 7537Centre for the Business and Economics of Health, The University of Queensland, QLD, Brisbane, Australia
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- grid.1003.20000 0000 9320 7537Allied Health, Mater Research Institute – University of Queensland, QLD, Brisbane, Australia
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González-Zeas D, Rosero-López D, Muñoz T, Osorio R, De Bièvre B, Dangles O. Making thirsty cities sustainable: A nexus approach for water provisioning in Quito, Ecuador. J Environ Manage 2022; 320:115880. [PMID: 35940014 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2022] [Revised: 07/19/2022] [Accepted: 07/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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In view of accelerated climate change and urban demographics, balancing human and ecosystem needs for water resources is a critical environmental challenge of global significance. Since water, agriculture, health, and energy are inextricably linked, sustainable development goals (SDGs) actions in one policy area commonly have impacts on the others, as well as on the ecosystems that natural resources and human activities ultimately depend upon. Managing urban water supply systems therefore requires a nexus approach that integrates goals across sectors, reduces the risk that SDG actions will undermine one another, and ensures sustainable resource use. We developed a transdisciplinary methodological framework based on a Pareto frontier analysis to define the sustainable solutions of a multi-objective optimization among four competing criteria, water provision, water quality, energy cost, and biodiversity conservation. The study was applied to three mountainous headwater basins in the Ecuadorian Andes, which provide around 30% of Quito's total water supply. We found that an optimized management of water intake structures would meet current consumption needs while reducing the probability of emergence of water pathogens and limiting the impact on aquatic biodiversity by 30% and 9% respectively, without any increase in energy costs for pumping water from other sources. Nonetheless, under future scenarios of climate change and water demand, higher energy consumption, and therefore an increase in operating costs, would be needed to meet urban demand and preserve environmental conditions. Overall, the range of Pareto optimal water supply strategies across the water-health-energy-biodiversity nexus provides valuable information for decision makers and offers support for achieving sustainable management of water resources.
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- D González-Zeas
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, UMR 5175, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France; DGZ Ingeniería-Consultoría Sostenible, Quito, Ecuador.
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- Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Instituto Biósfera, Calle Diego Robles y Pompite, Quito, Ecuador
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- Empresa Pública Metropolitana de Agua Potable y Saneamiento, Quito, Ecuador
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- Empresa Pública Metropolitana de Agua Potable y Saneamiento, Quito, Ecuador
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- Fondo para la Protección del Agua, Quito, Ecuador
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- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, UMR 5175, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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Ifejika Speranza C, Akinyemi FO, Baratoux D, Benveniste J, Ceperley N, Driouech F, Helmschrot J. Enhancing the Uptake of Earth Observation Products and Services in Africa Through a Multi-level Transdisciplinary Approach. Surv Geophys 2022; 44:7-41. [PMID: 36032547 PMCID: PMC9398042 DOI: 10.1007/s10712-022-09724-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2022] [Accepted: 06/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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UNLABELLED Africa stands to gain from Earth Observation (EO) science, products and applications. However, its use and application remain below potential on the continent. This article examines how EO can better serve the needs of African users. First, we argue that a successful uptake of EO services is conditional on understanding the African context and matching EO development and deployment to it. Using reference cases, we find that actors outside Africa drive most EO initiatives, whereas country-level expenditures on EO remain low. Recent developments, such as the African space policy and strategy, and initiatives in partnerships with Africa-based organisations to develop a community of practice on EO hold the potential to fill the identified gaps. The analysis indicates that most EO users are either government organisations or researchers, with very few cases involving other types of users. It is generally assumed that users at the local levels are educated and digitally literate, or that the transmission of EO-based knowledge is achieved by government officers and researchers. Although still very few, potentials are emerging for the private sector to deploy EO products and services such as crop or index-based insurance directly to farmers. These private initiatives have prospects for further developing indigenous EO capacity as envisioned in the African space policy and strategy. We then formulate recommendations for a transdisciplinary approach that integrates user contexts, attributes and needs to enhance the uptake of EO products and services in Africa. We conclude by proposing actions to close some of the identified gaps and seize emerging opportunities. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10712-022-09724-1.
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- Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, University of Toulouse, CNRS & IRD, 14 Av Édouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
- UFR Sciences de la Terre et des Ressources Minières, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan-Cocody, Côte d’Ivoire
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- Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes, EO Science, Applications and Climate Department, European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN), Largo Galileo Galilei, 1, 00044 Frascati, RM Italy
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- Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 12, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, IWRI, Ben Guerir, Morocco
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- Stellenbosch University Water Institute, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602 South Africa
- Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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Allen CG, Turbitt E, Smit AK, Passero LE, Olstad DL, Hatch A, Landry L, Roberts MC. Precision Public Health Initiatives in Cancer: Proceedings from the Transdisciplinary Conference for Future Leaders in Precision Public Health. BMC Proc 2022; 16:4. [PMID: 35799197 PMCID: PMC9261247 DOI: 10.1186/s12919-022-00234-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Precision public health is an emergent field that requires transdisciplinary collaborations and leverages innovative approaches to improve population health. These opportunities have inspired a new generation of precision public health researchers. Despite burgeoning interest in precision public health, there are limited opportunities for researchers to convene and continue the momentum of this field. METHODS The Transdisciplinary Conference for Future Leaders in Precision Public Health was the among the first events to bring together international researchers and practitioners to learn, network, and agenda set for the future of the field. The conference took place virtually on October 14 and 15, 2021. RESULTS The conference spanned two days and featured a keynote address, speakers from public health disciplines who are international leaders in precision-based research, networking opportunities, a poster session, and research agenda setting activities. CONCLUSION The conference was a critical first step to creating a shared international conversation about precision public health, especially among early-stage investigators. This allowed attendees to continue building their individual skills and international collaborations to support the growth of the field of precision public health.
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- University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW, Sydney, Australia.,Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.,The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public Health, Sydney, Australia
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- Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA
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Castro-Díaz R, Delgado LE, Langle-Flores A, Perevochtchikova M, Marín VH. A systematic review of social participation in ecosystem services studies in Latin America from a transdisciplinary perspective, 1996-2020. Sci Total Environ 2022; 828:154523. [PMID: 35292319 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2021] [Revised: 03/07/2022] [Accepted: 03/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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In this article, we propose that ecosystem services (ES) should be studied integrating social participation and the narrative of social actors. We analyzed the ES literature (1996-2020) in Latin America (LA), basing our review on the concept that the study of this topic should be transdisciplinary and post-normal (i.e., extended peer communities). We prepared the review using the Scopus® and Web of Science™ (WoS) databases. We found 1069 articles related to social participation in ES studies in 20 LA countries, identifying 310 articles for further analysis using screening and eligibility protocols. We also used a random sample (n = 50) of the 310 articles for a detailed analysis of social participation and extended peer communities. Results showed that articles increased from seven in 2010 to 39 per year from 2015 to 2019. English is the primary language used (91% of the articles), with only one journal accepting publications in Spanish. The most common collaboration combination has been one LA author and one or more non-LA authors (41% of the articles). The semantic network analysis showed 35 thematic clusters, with the most common corresponding to ES protection and provision issues. Direct social participation was included in 62% of the articles, mainly through interviews; however, consultancy processes have dominated the participatory perspective of the authors without transformative involvement. We discuss article language and low inter-countries collaboration, both influencing the lack of social participation required for the transdisciplinary analysis of ES.
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- Ricardo Castro-Díaz
- Instituto de Ciências Humanas e da Informação (ICHI), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Rio Grande, Brazil
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- Fundación CTF, Santiago, Chile; Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Centro Universitario de la Costa, Universidad de Guadalajara, Av. Universidad 203, Delegación Ixtapa, C.P. 48280 Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
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- Centro de Estudios Demográficos Urbanos y Ambientales (CEDUA), El Colegio de México A.C., Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Modelación Ecológica, Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
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Taylor A, McMellon C, French T, MacLachlan A, Evans R, Lewis R, McCann M, Moore L, Murphy S, Simpson S, Inchley J. Defining research priorities for youth public mental health: reflections on a coproduction approach to transdisciplinary working. Health Res Policy Syst 2022; 20:72. [PMID: 35725482 PMCID: PMC9207849 DOI: 10.1186/s12961-022-00871-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2021] [Accepted: 05/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND With most mental health problems established during childhood/adolescence, young people must be a key focus of public mental health approaches. Despite the range of factors known to influence mental health, evidence for effective interventions is lacking for this age group. This study aimed to define priorities for future public health intervention-focused research to support youth mental health by engaging with transdisciplinary stakeholder groups. METHODS Our coproduction approach involved priority-setting workshops with young people, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers. Each workshop focused on three thematic areas: social connections and relationships; schools and other education settings; and key groups at greater risk of mental ill-health, specifically LGBTQ+ and care-experienced young people. Workshop outputs were synthesized to define research priorities. RESULTS This paper presents the research priorities that were defined through the priority-setting workshops, and our reflections on the coproduction approach to guide future similar activities undertaken by others. Ten priorities for youth public mental health research were defined, covering the following areas: building supportive relationships; whole system approaches; social media; support at times of transition; improving links between different services; development and training for those who support young people; staff mental health; engaging with families; awareness of and access to services; and out-of-school and community settings. CONCLUSIONS These research priorities can inform future intervention development to support youth public mental health. Our transdisciplinary approach means the identified research priorities are likely to be relevant to young people's experiences and needs, and to fit with the needs of those working in practice and policy to support young people.
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- Andrea Taylor
- School of Design, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK.
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- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Science Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Innovation School, Glasgow School of Art, Forres, UK
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- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Science Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Centre for Development, Evaluation, Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer), Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Science Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Science Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Science Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Centre for Development, Evaluation, Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer), Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Science Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Science Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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Golden TL, Tetreault E, Ray CE, Kuge MN, Tiedemann A, Magsamen S. The State of Music-Based Interventions for Mental Illness: Thought Leaders on Barriers, Opportunities, and the Value of Interdisciplinarity. Community Ment Health J 2022; 58:487-98. [PMID: 34105041 DOI: 10.1007/s10597-021-00843-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2021] [Accepted: 05/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Hundreds of studies regarding music's effects on mental health have accumulated across multiple disciplines; however, access to and application of music as a support for mental health remains limited, due in part to the multidisciplinary nature of related research and difficulties synthesizing findings. This qualitative study is the first to address these barriers by gathering current thought leaders and stakeholders at intersections of music and mental health, representing multiple disciplines and backgrounds, to (1) document understandings of and recommendations for the field, and (2) examine how views converge or conflict. Participants (n = 36) viewed preliminary results of a global scoping review, then engaged in focus groups which were transcribed and de-identified for analysis. An interdisciplinary research team coded and iteratively analyzed transcripts. Six themes emerged: Barriers to Quality/Improved Research, Disciplinary Differences, Research Recommendations, Implementation and Access, Public Perception and Education, and Need for Training. Discussions offered wide-ranging observations and recommendations while revealing challenges and opportunities related to interdisciplinary work. Findings indicate broad agreement regarding current barriers and opportunities at intersections of music and mental health. While highlighting challenges, participants also indicated multiple avenues for advancing research quality, intervention effectiveness, and equitable access to music as a support for mental health. Responding to the study's illumination of the benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary work, four brief recommendations are offered to support future efforts.
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Roche DG, Raby GD, Norin T, Ern R, Scheuffele H, Skeeles M, Morgan R, Andreassen AH, Clements JC, Louissaint S, Jutfelt F, Clark TD, Binning SA. Paths towards greater consensus building in experimental biology. J Exp Biol 2022; 225:274263. [PMID: 35258604 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.243559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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In a recent editorial, the Editors-in-Chief of Journal of Experimental Biology argued that consensus building, data sharing, and better integration across disciplines are needed to address the urgent scientific challenges posed by climate change. We agree and expand on the importance of cross-disciplinary integration and transparency to improve consensus building and advance climate change research in experimental biology. We investigated reproducible research practices in experimental biology through a review of open data and analysis code associated with empirical studies on three debated paradigms and for unrelated studies published in leading journals in comparative physiology and behavioural ecology over the last 10 years. Nineteen per cent of studies on the three paradigms had open data, and 3.2% had open code. Similarly, 12.1% of studies in the journals we examined had open data, and 3.1% had open code. Previous research indicates that only 50% of shared datasets are complete and re-usable, suggesting that fewer than 10% of studies in experimental biology have usable open data. Encouragingly, our results indicate that reproducible research practices are increasing over time, with data sharing rates in some journals reaching 75% in recent years. Rigorous empirical research in experimental biology is key to understanding the mechanisms by which climate change affects organisms, and ultimately promotes evidence-based conservation policy and practice. We argue that a greater adoption of open science practices, with a particular focus on FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable) data and code, represents a much-needed paradigm shift towards improved transparency, cross-disciplinary integration, and consensus building to maximize the contributions of experimental biologists in addressing the impacts of environmental change on living organisms.
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- Dominique G Roche
- Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation, Department of Biology and Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1S 5B6.,Institut de Biologie, Université de Neuchâtel, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada, K9L 0G2
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- DTU Aqua: National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3216, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3216, Australia
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.,Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- Aquaculture and Coastal Ecosystems, Fisheries and Oceans Canada Gulf Region, Moncton, NB, Canada, E1C 9B6
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- Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, H2V 0B3
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- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3216, Australia
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- Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, H2V 0B3
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White-Hancock L. Insights from bauhaus innovation for education and workplaces in a post-pandemic world. Int J Technol Des Educ 2022; 33:261-279. [PMID: 35261486 PMCID: PMC8890986 DOI: 10.1007/s10798-022-09729-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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This paper examines Bauhaus School (1919-1933) innovation and relevance today. The School is a landmark in the history of design as a discipline and the development of design education. The School was also a workplace, commercialising Bauhaus-designed products. While drawing global interest in its innovations, the School faced resistance in Germany because it challenged conventions. This problem raises the questions: How did the School-workplace generate innovations amid the calamity of post-war Germany, and what is the significance of the Bauhaus for post-pandemic education and workplaces one hundred years on? The concept of 'transgression' is used to understand innovation at the Bauhaus School-workplace. Haraway discusses transgressive practices that disrupt established knowledges, moving ways of thinking and doing in new directions. Analysis of workplace learning research reveals that three interfacing dimensions make up innovation: (1) workplace environments, (2) the culture-order that facilitates innovation, and (3) learning in practice in authentic settings. This qualitative case study reports on how Bauhaus innovation emerged at the intersection of these key dimensions. There are surprising commonalities between the Bauhaus approach to innovation in challenging times and contemporary thinking about supporting innovation which are relevant to education, particularly STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) education, and workplaces in a world affected by the COVID 19 pandemic. Thus, encouraging people who challenge boundaries, rules or 'the way things are' can support innovation. This paper addresses a gap in workplace learning research on interrelated dimensions of innovation which the Bauhaus recognized. The study also offers an innovative approach to the examination of innovation across time and space whereas most contemporary studies of innovation focus on the present. Further, conceptualizing innovation as transgression offers a new way of thinking about innovation in design and in the workplace.
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Trebilco R, Fleming A, Hobday AJ, Melbourne-Thomas J, Meyer A, McDonald J, McCormack PC, Anderson K, Bax N, Corney SP, Dutra LXC, Fogarty HE, McGee J, Mustonen K, Mustonen T, Norris KA, Ogier E, Constable AJ, Pecl GT. Warming world, changing ocean: mitigation and adaptation to support resilient marine systems. Rev Fish Biol Fish 2022. [PMID: 34566277 DOI: 10.22541/au.160193478.81087102/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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UNLABELLED Proactive and coordinated action to mitigate and adapt to climate change will be essential for achieving the healthy, resilient, safe, sustainably harvested and biodiverse ocean that the UN Decade of Ocean Science and sustainable development goals (SDGs) seek. Ocean-based mitigation actions could contribute 12% of the emissions reductions required by 2030 to keep warming to less than 1.5 ºC but, because substantial warming is already locked in, extensive adaptation action is also needed. Here, as part of the Future Seas project, we use a "foresighting/hindcasting" technique to describe two scenarios for 2030 in the context of climate change mitigation and adaptation for ocean systems. The "business-as-usual" future is expected if current trends continue, while an alternative future could be realised if society were to effectively use available data and knowledge to push as far as possible towards achieving the UN SDGs. We identify three drivers that differentiate between these alternative futures: (i) appetite for climate action, (ii) handling extreme events, and (iii) climate interventions. Actions that could navigate towards the optimistic, sustainable and technically achievable future include:(i)proactive creation and enhancement of economic incentives for mitigation and adaptation;(ii)supporting the proliferation of local initiatives to spur a global transformation;(iii)enhancing proactive coastal adaptation management;(iv)investing in research to support adaptation to emerging risks;(v)deploying marine-based renewable energy;(vi)deploying marine-based negative emissions technologies;(vii)developing and assessing solar radiation management approaches; and(viii)deploying appropriate solar radiation management approaches to help safeguard critical ecosystems. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11160-021-09678-4.
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- Rowan Trebilco
- CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS Australia
- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- CSIRO Land & Water, Hobart, TAS Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS Australia
- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS Australia
- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Brisbane, Australia
- Blue Economy CRC-Co Ltd, Newnham, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- School of Psychological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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Weindl D, Koller D, Kostial M, Zajec K, Noske J. [Day care clinics central and/or distributed. A standard element of child and adolescent psychiatric care]. Neuropsychiatr 2022; 36:173-178. [PMID: 36348223 PMCID: PMC9722785 DOI: 10.1007/s40211-022-00439-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2022] [Accepted: 10/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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BACKGROUND Day-care clinics as specialized care units of child and adolescent psychiatric care in Austria represent an important component for person-orientated treatment offers. In addition to numerous advantages, they also put higher demands on the young patients and their relatives. METHODS The Austrian structure for day-care settings is recorded in the Austrian structure plan for health. Therefore, particular attention is paid to structural quality criteria, which are based on the Austrian concept of performance-oriented hospital financing. RESULTS A high demand and need for readiness for transdisciplinary, multimodal treatment concepts and forms is discussed. It becomes ovious that there is a need for large spatial resource requirements. The establishment of several day clinic groups at one location and spatial requirements cannot be found in the concept of performance-oriented hospital financing. CONCLUSION To ensure and evaluate the quality of treatment, recommendations are made on a patient-related and team- or organization-related level. The workgroup "day-care-clinic" of the Austrian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy recommends a treatment structure characterized by transdisciplinarity and participation. Further, it regionalized and local access and the integration of the day clinic into the community is necessary. Networking with other care structures and using social-psychiatric networks is essential. Regional characteristics should be taken into account and specialized, topic-specific day clinic groups should be increasingly included in further planning and concepts.
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- Dina Weindl
- Abteilung für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, LK Baden-Mödling am Standort Hinterbrühl, Hinterbrühl, Österreich ,grid.10420.370000 0001 2286 1424University of Vienna, Wien, Österreich
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- Abteilung für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, LK Baden-Mödling am Standort Hinterbrühl, Hinterbrühl, Österreich
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- Ambulanz und Tagesklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, LKH Graz Süd-West am Standort Leoben, Leoben, Österreich
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- Abteilung für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, LK Baden-Mödling am Standort Hinterbrühl, Hinterbrühl, Österreich ,grid.487248.50000 0004 9340 1179Institut für psychosoziale Medizin, Psychotherapie und Kindheitsforschung, Karl Landsteiner Gesellschaft, St. Pölten, Österreich
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- Abteilung für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, LK Baden-Mödling am Standort Hinterbrühl, Hinterbrühl, Österreich
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Castro-Kemp S, Samuels A. Working together: A review of cross-sector collaborative practices in provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities. Res Dev Disabil 2022; 120:104127. [PMID: 34814076 DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2021.104127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2021] [Revised: 10/05/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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It is widely recognised that cross-sector partnerships are key to improve outcomes for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). However, evidence-based strategies fostering these partnerships have not been systematically identified, and terms designating different forms of collaboration are used interchangeably. This study aims to contribute to systematically identify practices for cross-sector collaboration for children with SEND, critically positioning these within collaborative traditions (multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity). A scoping review of the international literature of the past 10 years was conducted, following Arksey and O'Malley's methodology and considering type of SEND studied, country of origin, approach to collaboration portrayed and study design. Only papers describing empirical applications of collaborative strategies were included in the final review (n = 8). Practices identified ranged from multidisciplinary to transdisciplinary and included: partnerships between higher education and healthcare organisations, implementation of school clinics, schools as interdisciplinary hubs, management's own partnerships and networks, assessment in person with the whole team, videoconferencing, periodic meetings with key professionals, informal on-site discussions and transdisciplinary play-based assessment. Implications for practice are considered, in particular the need to examine how these strategies are implemented in a variety of settings and the need to develop the skills that elicit transdisciplinary work.
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- Susana Castro-Kemp
- Roehampton University, School of Education, Roehampton Lane, London, SW155PJ, United Kingdom; Pretoria University, Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, South Africa.
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- Pretoria University, Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, University of Pretoria, Private Bag x 20, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa.
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Oerther DB, Glasgow ME. The Nurse+Engineer as the Prototype V-Shaped Professional. Nurs Outlook 2021; 70:280-291. [PMID: 34922765 DOI: 10.1016/j.outlook.2021.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Revised: 09/22/2021] [Accepted: 10/25/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Descriptions of convergence research include promises to solve complex societal problems, such as environmental determinants of health and social determinants of health, through the integration of diverse disciplines, such as nursing and engineering, to create novel frameworks, such as the V-shaped professional. PURPOSE The purpose of this paper was to define the nurse+engineer as a prototypical V-shaped professional. METHODS Starting from a description of the I-shaped discipline of nursing and the I-shaped discipline of engineering, we follow an intentional pathway to define the concept of the nurse+engineer as a new V-shaped professional. FINDINGS Examples of the nurse+engineer at the bedside and the nurse+engineer in the community are highlighted to support a theoretical definition of the V-shaped nurse+engineer. DISCUSSION Implications of the nurse+engineer in the workforce and practical recommendations for training nurse+engineer professionals are provided to improve healthcare policy, practice, research, and education through scientific discovery and innovation.
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- Daniel B Oerther
- Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO.
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Ferguson GM, Meeks Gardner JM, Nelson MR, Giray C, Sundaram H, Fiese BH, Koester B, Tran SP, Lewis RP. Food-Focused Media Literacy for Remotely Acculturating Adolescents and Mothers: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the "JUS Media? Programme". J Adolesc Health 2021; 69:1013-1023. [PMID: 34281754 PMCID: PMC8628116 DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2020] [Revised: 06/04/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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PURPOSE Unhealthy eating is a major modifiable risk factor for noncommunicable diseases and obesity, and remote acculturation to U.S. culture is a recently identified cultural determinant of unhealthy eating among adolescents and families in low/middle-income countries. This small-scale randomized controlled trial evaluated the efficacy of the "JUS Media? Programme," a food-focused media literacy intervention promoting healthier eating among remotely acculturating adolescents and mothers in Jamaica. METHODS Gender-stratified randomization of 184 eligible early adolescents and mothers in Kingston, Jamaica (i.e., 92 dyads: Madolescent.age = 12.79 years, 51% girls) determined 31 "Workshops-Only" dyads, 30 "Workshops + SMS/texting" dyads, and 31 "No-Intervention-Control" dyads. Nutrition knowledge (food group knowledge), nutrition attitudes (stage of nutritional change), and nutrition behavior (24-hour recall) were primary outcomes assessed at four time points (T1/baseline, T2, T3, T4) across 5 months using repeated measures analysis of covariances. RESULTS Compared to control, families in one or both intervention groups demonstrated significantly higher nutrition knowledge (T3 adolescents, T4 mothers: mean differences .79-1.08 on a 0-6 scale, 95% confidence interval [CI] .12-1.95, Cohen's ds = .438-.630); were more prepared to eat fruit daily (T3 adolescents and mothers: .36-.41 on a 1-5 scale, 95% CI .02-.77, ds = .431-.493); and were eating more cooked vegetables (T4 adolescents and T2 and T4 mothers: .20-.26 on a 0-1 scale, 95% CI -.03-.50, ds = .406-.607). Postintervention focus groups (6-month-delay) revealed major positive impacts on participants' health and lives more broadly. CONCLUSIONS A food-focused media literacy intervention for remotely acculturating adolescents and mothers can improve nutrition. Replication in Jamaica and extension to the Jamaican diaspora would be useful.
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- Gail M. Ferguson
- University of Minnesota,Corresponding Author: Gail M. Ferguson, Ph.D., Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, 51 E. River Road, ChDev Rm 160, Minneapolis, MN 55455, , Phone: +1 (612) 626-3033
- Fax: +1 (612) 624-6373
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Threlkeld R, Ashiku L, Canfield C, Shank DB, Schnitzler MA, Lentine KL, Axelrod DA, Battineni ACR, Randall H, Dagli C. Reducing Kidney Discard With Artificial Intelligence Decision Support: the Need for a Transdisciplinary Systems Approach. Curr Transplant Rep 2021; 8:263-271. [PMID: 35059280 PMCID: PMC8727423 DOI: 10.1007/s40472-021-00351-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW A transdisciplinary systems approach to the design of an artificial intelligence (AI) decision support system can more effectively address the limitations of AI systems. By incorporating stakeholder input early in the process, the final product is more likely to improve decision-making and effectively reduce kidney discard. RECENT FINDINGS Kidney discard is a complex problem that will require increased coordination between transplant stakeholders. An AI decision support system has significant potential, but there are challenges associated with overfitting, poor explainability, and inadequate trust. A transdisciplinary approach provides a holistic perspective that incorporates expertise from engineering, social science, and transplant healthcare. A systems approach leverages techniques for visualizing the system architecture to support solution design from multiple perspectives. SUMMARY Developing a systems-based approach to AI decision support involves engaging in a cycle of documenting the system architecture, identifying pain points, developing prototypes, and validating the system. Early efforts have focused on describing process issues to prioritize tasks that would benefit from AI support.
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- Richard Threlkeld
- Engineering Management & Systems Engineering, Missouri University of Science & Technology, 223 Engineering Management 600 W 14th St, MO 65409 Rolla, USA
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- Engineering Management & Systems Engineering, Missouri University of Science & Technology, 223 Engineering Management 600 W 14th St, MO 65409 Rolla, USA
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- Engineering Management & Systems Engineering, Missouri University of Science & Technology, 223 Engineering Management 600 W 14th St, MO 65409 Rolla, USA
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- Psychological Science, Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla, MO USA
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- Saint Louis University Transplant Center, St. Louis, MO USA
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- Engineering Management & Systems Engineering, Missouri University of Science & Technology, 223 Engineering Management 600 W 14th St, MO 65409 Rolla, USA
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Vakili S, Ölçer AI, Ballini F. The development of a transdisciplinary policy framework for shipping companies to mitigate underwater noise pollution from commercial vessels. Mar Pollut Bull 2021; 171:112687. [PMID: 34245990 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Revised: 06/27/2021] [Accepted: 06/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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One of the newly emerging environmental issues is underwater noise pollution. It has both negative environmental and socio-economic impacts and threatens sustainable shipping. While other types of shipping pollutants have been regulated and societal awareness has been raised, due to the intangible characteristics of underwater noise pollution, there is neither societal awareness nor an international legally binding instrument to mitigate underwater noise pollution. This paper aims to raise awareness of ship owners regarding UWN pollution by introducing the sources of UWN pollution, as well as proposing a transdisciplinary policy for shipping companies to mitigate UWN pollution from their ships. The proposed policy is aligned with IMO's initial GHG strategy, especially the Energy Efficiency Design Index, Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index, and Enhanced Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan. This multi-dimensional approach will make stakeholders more enthusiastic to tackle underwater noise pollution while enhancing the efficient use of capacities and resources.
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Trebilco R, Fleming A, Hobday AJ, Melbourne-Thomas J, Meyer A, McDonald J, McCormack PC, Anderson K, Bax N, Corney SP, Dutra LXC, Fogarty HE, McGee J, Mustonen K, Mustonen T, Norris KA, Ogier E, Constable AJ, Pecl GT. Warming world, changing ocean: mitigation and adaptation to support resilient marine systems. Rev Fish Biol Fish 2021; 32:39-63. [PMID: 34566277 PMCID: PMC8453030 DOI: 10.1007/s11160-021-09678-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2020] [Accepted: 07/26/2021] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Proactive and coordinated action to mitigate and adapt to climate change will be essential for achieving the healthy, resilient, safe, sustainably harvested and biodiverse ocean that the UN Decade of Ocean Science and sustainable development goals (SDGs) seek. Ocean-based mitigation actions could contribute 12% of the emissions reductions required by 2030 to keep warming to less than 1.5 ºC but, because substantial warming is already locked in, extensive adaptation action is also needed. Here, as part of the Future Seas project, we use a "foresighting/hindcasting" technique to describe two scenarios for 2030 in the context of climate change mitigation and adaptation for ocean systems. The "business-as-usual" future is expected if current trends continue, while an alternative future could be realised if society were to effectively use available data and knowledge to push as far as possible towards achieving the UN SDGs. We identify three drivers that differentiate between these alternative futures: (i) appetite for climate action, (ii) handling extreme events, and (iii) climate interventions. Actions that could navigate towards the optimistic, sustainable and technically achievable future include:(i)proactive creation and enhancement of economic incentives for mitigation and adaptation;(ii)supporting the proliferation of local initiatives to spur a global transformation;(iii)enhancing proactive coastal adaptation management;(iv)investing in research to support adaptation to emerging risks;(v)deploying marine-based renewable energy;(vi)deploying marine-based negative emissions technologies;(vii)developing and assessing solar radiation management approaches; and(viii)deploying appropriate solar radiation management approaches to help safeguard critical ecosystems. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11160-021-09678-4.
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- Rowan Trebilco
- CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS Australia
- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- CSIRO Land & Water, Hobart, TAS Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS Australia
- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS Australia
- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Brisbane, Australia
- Blue Economy CRC-Co Ltd, Newnham, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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Tsatsaros JH, Bohnet IC, Brodie JE, Valentine P. A transdisciplinary approach supports community-led water quality monitoring in river basins adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Mar Pollut Bull 2021; 170:112629. [PMID: 34157538 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2021] [Revised: 06/09/2021] [Accepted: 06/10/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Water quality monitoring programs (WQMPs) are crucial for assessment of water quality in river basins where agricultural intensification and development raise concerns in freshwater and marine environments. WQMPs if supported by scientists and local communities, and if based on the knowledge needs of all stakeholders, can provide vital information supporting resource management actions. Our paper focuses on the transdisciplinary development and implementation of a community-led pilot WQMP for the Tully River basin, adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). The community-led pilot WQMP was established to fill some knowledge gaps identified during development of the Tully Water Quality Improvement Plan (WQIP) and to provide opportunities for active stakeholder participation in the monitoring. Results indicated some water quality parameters (i.e. nitrates and total phosphorus) had higher than expected values and exceeded state water quality guidelines. Hence, the results provided an evidence base for freshwater quality objective development to conserve, protect and improve water quality conditions in this basin and GBR. Leadership of Indigenous people in the pilot WQMP recognizes their deep desire to improve water resources outcomes and to care for country and people.
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- Julie H Tsatsaros
- Forestry Department, New Mexico Highlands University, P.O. Box 9000, Las Vegas, NM 87701, USA; School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia.
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic.
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia.
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- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia.
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Baumber A. Transforming sustainability education through transdisciplinary practice. Environ Dev Sustain 2021; 24:7622-7639. [PMID: 34393621 PMCID: PMC8353222 DOI: 10.1007/s10668-021-01731-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Addressing urban sustainability challenges through transformative learning requires learners to be receptive to alternative viewpoints and to critically analyse their own assumptions and worldviews. Higher education institutions have an important role to play in addressing such challenges through their capacity to bring together diverse stakeholders and implement structured learning activities that can enable transformation on a personal and societal level. This article presents a case study of how urban sustainability has been incorporated into various courses run by the TD (transdisciplinary) School at the University of Technology Sydney. The findings illustrate that a transdisciplinary approach to higher education can facilitate transformative learning through a focus on real-world challenges, complex systems thinking, the integration of diverse knowledges and reflexivity. The lessons emerging from the case study demonstrate the importance of both enabling students to obtain a transdisciplinary skillset through their education and ensuring that educators adopt a transdisciplinary mindset to curriculum design.
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- Alex Baumber
- TD School, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, NSW 2007 Australia
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Woods CT, Rudd J, Araújo D, Vaughan J, Davids K. Weaving Lines of Inquiry: Promoting Transdisciplinarity as a Distinctive Way of Undertaking Sport Science Research. Sports Med Open 2021; 7:55. [PMID: 34342764 PMCID: PMC8333240 DOI: 10.1186/s40798-021-00347-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The promotion of inter- and multidisciplinarity - broadly drawing on other disciplines to help collaboratively answer important questions to the field - has been an important goal for many professional development organisations, universities, and research institutes in sport science. While welcoming collaboration, this opinion piece discusses the value of transdisciplinary research for sports science. The reason for this is that inter- and multidisciplinary research are still bound by disciplinary convention - often leading sport science researchers to study about a phenomenon based on pre-determined disciplinary ways of conceptualising, measuring, and doing. In contrast, transdisciplinary research promotes contextualised study with a phenomenon, like sport, unbound by disciplinary confines. It includes a more narrative and abductive way of performing research, with this abduction likely opening new lines of inquiry for attentive researchers to follow. It is in the weaving of these lines where researchers can encounter new information, growing knowledge in-between, through, and beyond the disciplines to progressively entangle novel and innovative insights related to a phenomenon or topic of interest. To guide innovation and the development of such research programmes in sport science, we lean on the four cornerstones of transdisciplinarity proposed by Alfonso Montuori, exemplifying what they could mean for such research programmes in sport science.
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- Carl T Woods
- Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.
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- Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway
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- CIPER, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- AIK Football, Research & Development Department, Stockholm, Sweden
- School of Human Movement and Nutritional Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Sport & Human Performance Research Group, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
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Law MC, Lau BH, Kwok AYY, Lee JSH, Lui RNY, Liu KH, Leung PPY, Chan CLW. Empowering families facing end-stage nonmalignant chronic diseases with a holistic, transdisciplinary, community-based intervention: 3 months outcome of the Life Rainbow Program - CORRIGENDUM. Palliat Support Care 2021;:1. [PMID: 34158145 DOI: 10.1017/S1478951521000997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Tolk A, Harper A, Mustafee N. Hybrid models as transdisciplinary research enablers. Eur J Oper Res 2021; 291:1075-1090. [PMID: 33078041 PMCID: PMC7558239 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2020.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2019] [Accepted: 10/08/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Modelling and simulation (M&S) techniques are frequently used in Operations Research (OR) to aid decision-making. With growing complexity of systems to be modelled, an increasing number of studies now apply multiple M&S techniques or hybrid simulation (HS) to represent the underlying system of interest. A parallel but related theme of research is extending the HS approach to include the development of hybrid models (HM). HM extends the M&S discipline by combining theories, methods and tools from across disciplines and applying multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary solutions to practice. In the broader OR literature, there are numerous examples of cross-disciplinary approaches in model development. However, within M&S, there is limited evidence of the application of conjoined methods for building HM. Where a stream of such research does exist, the integration of approaches is mostly at a technical level. In this paper, we argue that HM requires cross-disciplinary research engagement and a conceptual framework. The framework will enable the synthesis of discipline-specific methods and techniques, further cross-disciplinary research within the M&S community, and will serve as a transcending framework for the transdisciplinary alignment of M&S research with domain knowledge, hypotheses and theories from diverse disciplines. The framework will support the development of new composable HM methods, tools and applications. Although our framework is built around M&S literature, it is generally applicable to other disciplines, especially those with a computational element. The objective is to motivate a transdisciplinarity-enabling framework that supports the collaboration of research efforts from multiple disciplines, allowing them to grow into transdisciplinary research.
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- Andreas Tolk
- The MITRE Corporation, 1001 Research Park Blvd #220, Charlottesville, VA 22911, USA
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- The Centre for Simulation, Analytics and Modelling (CSAM), University of Exeter Business School, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4PU, UK
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- The Centre for Simulation, Analytics and Modelling (CSAM), University of Exeter Business School, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4PU, UK
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Yang X, Lo K. Environmental health research and the COVID-19 pandemic: A turning point towards sustainability. Environ Res 2021; 197:111157. [PMID: 33887273 PMCID: PMC8542966 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2020] [Revised: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Based on a review of COVID-19 research from an environmental health perspective, this study theorizes the interdependence of the society, environment and health, and presents an integrated framework for environmental health problems arising due to COVID-19. Five guiding principles are proposed for conducting environmental health research, including employing a transdisciplinary approach, embracing complexity and uncertainty, addressing vulnerability, boosting resilience and promoting sustainable development. This study propagates that the pandemic could be an opportunity for sustainable transformation, wherein visionary leadership that facilitates sustainability policies based on environmental health science is required. This study can serve as a consolidated guide for professionals and stakeholders who conduct environmental health research in this challenging field.
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- Xi Yang
- David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.
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- David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China; Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
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Pineo H, Audia C, Black D, French M, Gemmell E, Lovasi GS, Milner J, Montes F, Niu Y, Pérez-Ferrer C, Siri J, Taruc RR. Building a Methodological Foundation for Impactful Urban Planetary Health Science. J Urban Health 2021; 98:442-452. [PMID: 32572677 PMCID: PMC8190224 DOI: 10.1007/s11524-020-00463-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Anthropogenic environmental change will heavily impact cities, yet associated health risks will depend significantly on decisions made by urban leaders across a wide range of non-health sectors, including transport, energy, housing, basic urban services, and others. A subset of planetary health researchers focus on understanding the urban health impacts of global environmental change, and how these vary globally and within cities. Such researchers increasingly adopt collaborative transdisciplinary approaches to engage policy-makers, private citizens, and other actors in identifying and evaluating potential policy solutions that will reduce environmental impacts in ways that simultaneously promote health, equity, and/or local economies-in other words, maximising 'co-benefits'. This report presents observations from a participatory workshop focused on challenges and opportunities for urban planetary health research. The workshop, held at the 16th International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH) in Xiamen, China, in November 2019, brought together 49 participants and covered topics related to collaboration, data, and research impact. It featured research projects funded by the Wellcome Trust's Our Planet Our Health (OPOH) programme. This report aims to concisely summarise and disseminate participants' collective contributions to current methodological practice in urban planetary health research.
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- Helen Pineo
- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, University College London, Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London, WC1H 0NN, UK.
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- Department of Geography, School of Global Affairs, Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
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- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, First Floor, 5 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1UD, UK
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- Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, 8 Scenic Blvd, Clayton, VIC, Australia
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- School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, 3600 Market St 7th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9SH, UK
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, Cra 1E#19A-40, Bogota, Colombia
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- State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 155 Changbai Road, Beijing, 102206, China
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- CONACYT ─ National Institute of Public Health, Avenida Universidad 655, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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- Our Planet Our Health, Wellcome Trust, 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE, UK
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- Public Health Faculty, Hasanuddin University, Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan KM 10, Makassar, Indonesia
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Yuan MH, Chiueh PT, Lo SL. Measuring urban food-energy-water nexus sustainability: Finding solutions for cities. Sci Total Environ 2021; 752:141954. [PMID: 33207517 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Revised: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 08/22/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A city is the place where food, energy, and water consumption happen. This consumption leads to challenges and has a strong impact on natural sources. Although researchers broadly agree on the importance of incorporating the concept of the food, energy, and water nexus into policy strategies and decision-making, the assessment system for how governance methods can improve the provision of these three essential services is relatively blank. To clarify the policy mechanisms and heterogeneity of sustainability issues related to the food, energy and water nexus at the city level, this study develops an indicator system to guide the implementations and optimize urban sustainability. A qualitative approach is employed to form the priority strategies in in four selected cities: Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Taipei, and Tainan. The results show that renewable energy plays an essential role in the food-energy-water nexus. In addition, we also observed that future work should focus on technological innovation. These observations imply that the unique combination of influence factors in food-energy-water sustainability offers a comprehensive outlook of the broad and complex challenges that a city faces due to resource limitations, which can help inform future governance practices. Finally, some policy recommendations are made for highlighting and the activities needed to work. The results of the present evaluation could be used as a tool to strengthen food-energy-water management in the future. They can guide managers to develop possible solutions that ensure resources are applied successfully according to the visions of multiple perspectives and help the relevant ministries to improve future consultation plans.
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- Mei-Hua Yuan
- Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC
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- Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC
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- Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC.
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Weiss D, Cook B, Eren R. Transdisciplinary Approach Practicum for Speech-Language Pathology and Special Education Graduate Students. J Autism Dev Disord 2020; 50:3661-78. [PMID: 32076959 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-020-04413-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Speech-language pathology and special education graduate student teams participated in an intensive summer practicum for social communication skills with children with autism spectrum disorders, utilizing a transdisciplinary approach that aligned to the frameworks utilized for implementation science. Questionnaires measuring transdisciplinary approach knowledge and comfort level were administered pre/post-practicum. Results of the questionnaires, written daily team reflections, course evaluations, and a focus group interview indicated an increase in all measures, including an increased knowledge of TA, increased understanding and comfort level with the other discipline, and a higher level of confidence and openness in working collaboratively utilizing a transdisciplinary approach.
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Morse T, Luwe K, Lungu K, Chiwaula L, Mulwafu W, Buck L, Harlow R, Fagan GH, McGuigan K. A Transdisciplinary Methodology for Introducing Solar Water Disinfection to Rural Communities in Malawi-Formative Research Findings. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2020; 16:871-884. [PMID: 32048797 PMCID: PMC7687190 DOI: 10.1002/ieam.4249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2019] [Revised: 11/14/2019] [Accepted: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Despite the increasing volume of evidence demonstrating the efficacy of solar water disinfection (SODIS) as a household water treatment technology, there still appear to be significant barriers to uptake in developing countries. The potential of SODIS is often treated with skepticism in terms of effective treatment, volume, and safety, and is dismissed in preference for more accepted technologies such as ceramic filters and dose chlorination. As part of WATERSPOUTT (EU H2020 688928), our study used a transdisciplinary methodology to cocreate an innovative SODIS system in rural Malawi. The formative work focused on the design of 1) an appropriate and acceptable system and 2) a context-specific intervention delivery program using a behavior-centered design. Initial research identified specific water needs and challenges, which were discussed along with a cocreation process with potential end users, through a series of shared dialogue workshops (SDWs). Specifications from end users outlined a desire for higher volume systems (20 L) that were "familiar" and could be manufactured locally. Development of the "SODIS bucket" was then undertaken by design experts and local manufacturers, with input from end users and subject to controlled testing to ensure efficacy and safety. Concurrent data were collated using questionnaires (n = 777 households), water point mapping (n = 121), water quality testing (n = 46), and behavior change modeling (n = 100 households). These identified specific contextual issues (hydrogeology, water access, gender roles, social capital, and socioeconomic status), and behavioral determinants (normative, ability, and self-regulation factors) that informed the development and delivery mechanism for the implementation toolkit. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2020;16:871-884. © 2020 The Authors. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry (SETAC).
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- Tracy Morse
- Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of StrathclydeGlasgowUnited Kingdom
- Centre for Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Appropriate Technology Development, University of Malawi (Polytechnic)BlantyreMalawi
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- Centre for Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Appropriate Technology Development, University of Malawi (Polytechnic)BlantyreMalawi
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- Centre for Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Appropriate Technology Development, University of Malawi (Polytechnic)BlantyreMalawi
- Department of Environmental HealthUniversity of Malawi (Polytechnic)BlantyreMalawi
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- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Malawi (Chancellor College)ZombaMalawi
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- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Malawi (Chancellor College)ZombaMalawi
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- Department of Product DesignBuckinghamshire New UniversityLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Product DesignBuckinghamshire New UniversityLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Sociology and Social Science Institute (MUSSI)Maynooth UniversityMaynoothIreland
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- Department of Physiology and Medical PhysicsRoyal College of SurgeonsIrelandDublinIreland
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Baztan J, Vanderlinden JP, Jaffrès L, Jorgensen B, Zhu Z. Facing climate injustices: Community trust-building for climate services through arts and sciences narrative co-production. Clim Risk Manag 2020; 30:100253. [PMID: 33106769 PMCID: PMC7578847 DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2020.100253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2019] [Revised: 10/08/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The goal of this paper is to analyze how and with what results place-based climate service co-production may be enacted within a community for whom climate change is not a locally salient concern. Aiming to initiate a climate-centered dialogue, a hybrid team of scientists and artists collected local narratives within the Kerourien neighbourhood, in the city of Brest in Brittany, France. Kerourien is a place known for its stigmatizing crime, poverty, marginalization and state of disrepair. Social work is higher on the agenda than climate action. The team thus acknowledged that local narratives might not make much mention of climate change, and recognized part of the work might be to shift awareness to the actual or potential, current or future, connections between everyday non-climate concerns and climate issues. Such a shift called for a practical intervention, centered on local culture. The narrative collection process was dovetailed with preparing the neighbourhood's 50th anniversary celebration and establishing a series of art performances to celebrate the neighbourhood and its residents. Non-climate and quasi-climate stories were collected, documented, and turned into art forms. The elements of climate service co-production in this process are twofold. First, they point to the ways in which non-climate change related local concerns may be mapped out in relation to climate change adaptation, showing how non-climate change concerns call for climate information. Secondly, they show how the co-production of climate services may go beyond the provision of climate information by generating procedural benefits such as local empowerment - thus generating capacities that may be mobilized to face climate change. We conclude by stressing that "place-based climate service co-production for action" may require questioning the nature of the "services" rendered, questioning the nature of "place," and questioning what "action" entails. We offer leads for addressing these questions in ways that help realise empowerment and greater social justice.
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- Juan Baztan
- CEARC, Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, 78280 Guyancourt, France
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- CEARC, Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, 78280 Guyancourt, France
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Neely AN, Ivey AS, Duarte C, Poe J, Irsheid S. Building the Transdisciplinary Resistance Collective for Research and Policy: Implications for Dismantling Structural Racism as a Determinant of Health Inequity. Ethn Dis 2020; 30:381-388. [PMID: 32742140 DOI: 10.18865/ed.30.3.381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Structural racism is a multilevel system of ideologies, institutions, and processes that have created and reified racial/ethnic inequities. As a system, it works in concert across institutions to propagate racial injustice. Thus, efforts to address structural racism and its implications for health inequity require transdisciplinary collaboration. In this article, we begin by describing the process through which we have leveraged our discipline-specific training -- spanning education, epidemiology, social work, sociology, and urban planning -- to co-construct a transdisciplinary analysis of the determinants of racial health inequity. Specifically, we introduce the underlying theories that guide our framework development and demonstrate the application of our integrated framework through a case example. We conclude with potential research and policy implications.
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- Georgia State University, Teaching and Teacher Education, Atlanta, GA
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- University of California, Sociology, Davis, CA
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- University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA
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- University of Southern California, Urban Planning and Development, Los Angeles, CA
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- University of Chicago, Social Service Administration, Chicago, IL
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Boone CG, Pickett STA, Bammer G, Bawa K, Dunne JA, Gordon IJ, Hart D, Hellmann J, Miller A, New M, Ometto JP, Taylor K, Wendorf G, Agrawal A, Bertsch P, Campbell C, Dodd P, Janetos A, Mallee H. Preparing interdisciplinary leadership for a sustainable future. Sustain Sci 2020; 15:1723-1733. [PMID: 32837574 PMCID: PMC7261256 DOI: 10.1007/s11625-020-00823-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2019] [Accepted: 05/22/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Urgent sustainability challenges require effective leadership for inter- and trans-disciplinary (ITD) institutions. Based on the diverse experiences of 20 ITD institutional leaders and specific case studies, this article distills key lessons learned from multiple pathways to building successful programs. The lessons reflect both the successes and failures our group has experienced, to suggest how to cultivate appropriate and effective leadership, and generate the resources necessary for leading ITD programs. We present two contrasting pathways toward ITD organizations: one is to establish a new organization and the other is to merge existing organizations. We illustrate how both benefit from a real-world focus, with multiple examples of trajectories of ITD organizations. Our diverse international experiences demonstrate ways to cultivate appropriate leadership qualities and skills, especially the ability to create and foster vision beyond the status quo; collaborative leadership and partnerships; shared culture; communications to multiple audiences; appropriate monitoring and evaluation; and perseverance. We identified five kinds of resources for success: (1) intellectual resources; (2) institutional policies; (3) financial resources; (4) physical infrastructure; and (5) governing boards. We provide illustrations based on our extensive experience in supporting success and learning from failure, and provide a framework that articulates the major facets of leadership in inter- and trans-disciplinary organizations: learning, supporting, sharing, and training.
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- Christopher G. Boone
- School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, 800 S. Cady Mall, Tempe, AZ 85284 USA
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- Integration and Implementation Sciences, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT Australia
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- University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA USA
- Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and The Environment, Bangalore, India
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT Australia
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- Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, University of Maine, Orono, ME USA
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- Institute On the Environment, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN USA
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- The Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY USA
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- African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Earth System Science Centre (CCST-INPE)/Rede-Clima, São José dos Campos, Brazil
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- Our Land and Water National Science Challenge, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Center for Technology and Society, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- International Forestry Resources and Institutions, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- CSIRO Land and Water and Queensland Chief Scientist, Brisbane, QLD Australia
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- Office of Research, Interdisciplinary Research and Strategic Initiatives, University of California, Davis, CA USA
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- Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University, Boston, MA USA
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- Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan
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A new generation of research, building upon developmental psychopathology (Luthar et al. 1997; Luthar et al. (Child Development, 71, 543-562, 2000)), provides evidence that individual differences in risk for behavioral health problems result from intrapersonal and environmental modulation of neurophysiologic and genetic substrates. This transdisciplinary model suggests that, in any given individual, the number of genetic variants implicated in high-risk behavior and the way in which they are assorted and ultimately suppressed or activated in the brain by experiential and contextual factors help to explain behavioral orientations. Implications are that behavioral health problems can be amplified or reduced based on characteristics of an individual and socio-contextual influences on those characteristics. This emerging research has extraordinary implications for the design of prevention programs that more precisely target the malleable mechanisms that underlie behavioral health problems and, hence, more effectively prevent behavioral problems and promote resilience. A detailed, theory-driven examination of all evidence-based interventions is called for to identify the active ingredients that specifically impact these underlying mechanisms. Such an approach will enhance the ability of preventive interventions to achieve effect sizes indicative of beneficial impacts for a greater number of recipients. This paper presents the significant implications of this collective knowledge base for the next generation of precision-based, prevention-focused personalized interventions.
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- Diana H Fishbein
- Department of Human Development and Family Studies and Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, 218 Health and Human Development Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.
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- College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, Evaluation Services Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Thiel A, Sudeck G, Gropper H, Maturana FM, Schubert T, Srismith D, Widmann M, Behrens S, Martus P, Munz B, Giel K, Zipfel S, Nieß AM. The iReAct study - A biopsychosocial analysis of the individual response to physical activity. Contemp Clin Trials Commun 2019; 17:100508. [PMID: 31890988 PMCID: PMC6928277 DOI: 10.1016/j.conctc.2019.100508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2019] [Revised: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 12/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Background Physical activity is a substantial promoter for health and well-being. Yet, while an increasing number of studies shows that the responsiveness to physical activity is highly individual, most studies focus this issue from only one perspective and neglect other contributing aspects. In reference to a biopsychosocial framework, the goal of our study is to examine how physically inactive individuals respond to two distinct standardized endurance trainings on various levels. Based on an assessment of activity- and health-related biographical experiences across the life course, our mixed-method study analyzes the responsiveness to physical activity in the form of a transdisciplinary approach, considering physiological, epigenetic, motivational, affective, and body image-related aspects. Methods Participants are randomly assigned to two different training programs (High Intensity Interval Training vs. Moderate Intensity Continuous Training) for six weeks. After this first training period, participants switch training modes according to a two-period sequential-training-intervention (STI) design and train for another six weeks. In order to analyse baseline characteristics as well as acute and adaptive biopsychosocial responses, three extensive mixed-methods diagnostic blocks take place at the beginning (t0) of the study and after the first (t1) and the second (t2) training period resulting in a net follow-up time of 15 weeks. The study is divided into five modules in order to cover a wide array of perspectives. Discussion The study's transdisciplinary mixed-method design allows to interlace a multitude of subjective and objective data and therefore to draw an integrated picture of the biopsychosocial efficacy of two distinct physical activity programs. The results of our study can be expected to contribute to the development and design of individualised training programs for the promotion of physical activity. Trial registration The study was retrospectively registered in the German Clinical Trials Register on 12 June 2019 (DRKS00017446).
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- Ansgar Thiel
- Institute of Sports Science, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany.,Interfaculty Research Institute for Sport and Physical Activity, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Sports Science, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany.,Interfaculty Research Institute for Sport and Physical Activity, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Sports Science, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany.,Interfaculty Research Institute for Sport and Physical Activity, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Medical University Hospital Tübingen, Germany.,Interfaculty Research Institute for Sport and Physical Activity, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Sports Science, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany.,Interfaculty Research Institute for Sport and Physical Activity, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine & Psychotherapy, Medical University Hospital Tübingen, Germany.,Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Department of Perceiving Systems, Tübingen, Germany.,Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School, University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Medical University Hospital Tübingen, Germany.,Interfaculty Research Institute for Sport and Physical Activity, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine & Psychotherapy, Medical University Hospital Tübingen, Germany.,Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Department of Perceiving Systems, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Applied Biometry, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Medical University Hospital Tübingen, Germany.,Interfaculty Research Institute for Sport and Physical Activity, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine & Psychotherapy, Medical University Hospital Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine & Psychotherapy, Medical University Hospital Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Medical University Hospital Tübingen, Germany.,Interfaculty Research Institute for Sport and Physical Activity, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
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Burri NM, Weatherl R, Moeck C, Schirmer M. A review of threats to groundwater quality in the anthropocene. Sci Total Environ 2019; 684:136-154. [PMID: 31153063 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Revised: 04/29/2019] [Accepted: 05/16/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Awareness concerning sustainable groundwater consumption under the context of land use and climate change is gaining traction, raising the bar for adequate understanding of the complexities of natural and anthropogenic processes and how they affect groundwater quality. The heterogeneous characteristics of aquifers have hampered comprehensive source, transport and contaminant identification. As questions remain about the behavior and prediction of well-known groundwater contaminants, new concerns around emerging contaminants are on the increase. This review highlights some of the key contaminants that originate from anthropogenic activities, organized based on land use categories namely agricultural, urban and industrial. It further highlights the extensive overlap, in terms of both provenance as well as contaminant type, between the different land use sectors. A selection of case studies from literature that describe the continued concern of established contaminants, as well as new and emerging compounds, are presented to illustrate the many qualitative threats to global groundwater resources. In some cases, the risk of groundwater contamination lacks adequate gravity, while in others the underlying physical and societal processes are not fully understood and activities may commence without adequately considering potential impacts. In the agricultural context, the historic and current application of fertilizers and plant protectants, use of veterinary pharmaceuticals and hormones, strives to safeguard the growing food demands. In the context of a sprawling urban environment, waste, human pharmaceuticals, and urban pesticide outputs are increasing, with adequate runoff and sanitation infrastructure often lagging. Finally, industrial activities are associated with accidental leaks and spills, while the large-scale storage of industrial byproducts has led to legacy contaminants such as those stemming from raw mineral extraction. With this review paper, we aim to underscore the need for transdisciplinary research, along with transboundary communication, using sound science and adaptive policy and management practice in order to procure sustainable groundwater quality.
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- Nicole M Burri
- Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Department Water Resources and Drinking Water, Dübendorf, Switzerland; University of Neuchâtel, Centre of Hydrogeology and Geothermics (CHYN), Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
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- Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Department Water Resources and Drinking Water, Dübendorf, Switzerland; University of Neuchâtel, Centre of Hydrogeology and Geothermics (CHYN), Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Department Water Resources and Drinking Water, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Department Water Resources and Drinking Water, Dübendorf, Switzerland; University of Neuchâtel, Centre of Hydrogeology and Geothermics (CHYN), Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Brisbois BW, Spiegel JM, Harris L. Health, environment and colonial legacies: Situating the science of pesticides, bananas and bodies in Ecuador. Soc Sci Med 2019; 239:112529. [PMID: 31561208 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2018] [Revised: 07/25/2019] [Accepted: 08/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Pesticide-related health impacts in Ecuador's banana industry illustrate the need to understand science's social production in the context of major North-South inequities. This paper explores colonialism's ongoing context-specific relationships to science, and what these imply for population health inquiry and praxis. Themes in postcolonial science and technology studies and critical Latin American scholarship guide this exploration, oriented around an ethnographic case study of bananas, pesticides and health in Ecuador. The challenge of explaining these impacts prompts us to explore discursive and contextual dynamics of pesticide toxicology and phytopathology, two disciplines integral to understanding pesticide-health linkages. The evolution of banana phytopathology reflects patterns of banana production and plant science in settings made accessible to scientists by European colonialism and American military interventions. Similarly, American foreign policy in Cold War-era Latin America created conditions for widespread pesticide exposures and accompanying health science research. Neocolonial representations of the global South interacted with these material realities in fostering generation of scientific knowledge. Implications for health praxis include troubling celebratory portrayals of global interconnectedness in the field of global health, motivating critical political economy and radical community-based approaches in their place. Another implication is a challenge to conciliatory corporate engagement approaches in health research, given banana production's symbiosis of scientifically 'productive' military and corporate initiatives. Similarly, the origins and evolution of toxicology should promote humility and precautionary approaches in addressing environmental injustices such as pesticide toxicity, given the role of corporate actors in promoting systematic underestimation of risk to vulnerable populations. Perhaps most unsettlingly, the very structures and processes that drive health inequities in Ecuador's banana industry simultaneously shape production of knowledge about those inequities. Public health scholars should thus move beyond simply carrying out more, or better, studies, and pursue the structural changes needed to redress historical and ongoing injustices.
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Gaihre S, Kyle J, Semple S, Smith J, Marais D, Subedi M, Morgan H. Bridging barriers to advance multisector approaches to improve food security, nutrition and population health in Nepal: transdisciplinary perspectives. BMC Public Health 2019; 19:961. [PMID: 31319837 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-019-7204-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2019] [Accepted: 06/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background Understanding stakeholders’ perceptions is crucial to the development and implementation of any intervention. However, a structured approach to eliciting stakeholder insights into complex, multisector issues of food security, household environment and health is lacking in many low and middle-income countries. This qualitative, workshop-based participatory study explores stakeholders’ experiences of developing and implementing multisector interventions to provide transdisciplinary lessons for future developments in low and middle-income countries. Methods Participants were purposely selected based on their involvement in, or exposure to, the multisector intervention. Participants with interests in agriculture, nutrition, household air-quality, drinking water-quality and health from academic institutes, government and developmental organisations were brought together at a one-day workshop to participate in a series of discussions on issues relating to food security, nutrition, household environment and health in Nepal. All group discussions were audio-recorded and transcribed, and a thematic qualitative analysis performed to identify relevant themes. Results The government’s ongoing Multisector Nutrition Plan, stakeholders’ willingness to work together, availability of local infrastructure for cross-institutional inputs and increasing global movement towards transdisciplinary approaches were identified by the 33 workshop participants, representing 23 organisations as key factors determining success of transdisciplinary work. Fragmentation, lack of research-based and practice-based evidence, limited transdisciplinary knowledge amongst sectoral stakeholders, short-term funding and lack of knowledge-sharing mechanisms were identified as barriers, often creating systematic problems for successful implementation. Stakeholders suggested methods to bring about success included: improved knowledge, both amongst policy-makers and implementers, of food security and its linkage with nutrition, household environments, health and hygiene; investment in collaborative practice-based research and evidence-based practice; and strengthened transdisciplinary collaboration between multi-stakeholders, such as researchers, implementers and beneficiaries, throughout the intervention development and implementation process. Conclusions This study suggests that multisector approach needs to adapt to take into account the experiences and views of the stakeholders concerned. The paper offers recommendations for successful development and implementation of future multisector interventions in Nepal that can be extrapolated to other low and middle-income countries, and lays foundations for future transdisciplinary working to support realisation of the recommendations. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-019-7204-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Rollins L, Zellner Lawrence T, Henry Akintobi T, Hopkins J, Banerjee A, De La Rosa M. A Participatory Evaluation Framework for the Implementation of a Transdisciplinary Center for Health Disparities Research. Ethn Dis 2019; 29:385-392. [PMID: 31308610 PMCID: PMC6604778 DOI: 10.18865/ed.29.s2.385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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This article describes the participatory evaluation framework for the Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for Health Disparities Research (TCC) funded by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities. In collaboration with TCC stakeholders, logic models, the McKinlay model, and process and outcome evaluation plans, including quantitative and qualitative methods, have been developed and used to document the impact of the TCC. The McKinlay model, a widely used comprehensive health model for eliminating health disparities, was also tailored to document the outcomes of the TCC. The process and outcome evaluation plans for the TCC guide continuous improvement and the achievement of its specific aims. The evaluation of the TCC occurred between 2012 and 2019 and involved key stakeholders in TCC research and programming. Several challenges exist for implementing an evaluation plan of a health equity-focused policy research center. However, we learned several lessons that will ensure progress toward specific aims and will help the TCC serve as a model for similar programs and centers.
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- Latrice Rollins
- Prevention Research Center, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
- Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
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- Prevention Research Center, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
- Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
- Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
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- Prevention Research Center, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
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- College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, Miami, FL
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