An Understanding of Inter and Transdisciplinary Aspects of Urban Resilience ()
ABSTRACT
Over the past two decades,
there has been a growing interest in the practice of transdisciplinary research,
especially in the social sciences. However, the answer to the question of
whether we have achieved interdisciplinarity is definitely not affirmative.
However, interdisciplinary research is needed when information about a topic
and the problem it creates is socially unclear, or when the concrete nature of
the problems deteriorates and a lot of things are at stake for those who are
interested in these issues and those who have worked on them. Examples of such
topics can be listed as poverty, health, immigration, cultural transformation,
bioengineering of new crops, and climate changes which is one of the safety
indicators of all these issues. In cities with a large population, these issues
are more noticeable than in the countryside. However, there are problems
everywhere. Interdisciplinary approaches aimed at creating knowledge that
exceeds the boundaries of those disciplines and integrating methodologies belonging
to different disciplines begin to work by acknowledging the decoupling that
results from the interaction between researchers and stakeholders. Therefore,
interdisciplinary research includes interdisciplinary reflections and
methodologies, but questions the issues by diving even further into the issue.
That is why interdisciplinary research complements applied research in areas
characterized by complexity and uncertainty. Urban administrations are an
increasingly specialized field, and all types of security problems, especially
climate change-induced ones are being studied in order to maintain a healthy
urban structure. In this article, the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary
aspect of urban resilience life is pointed out.
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Karaman, Z. (2022) An Understanding of Inter and Transdisciplinary Aspects of Urban Resilience.
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
10, 195-215. doi:
10.4236/jss.2022.104014.