Mobilizing Transdisciplinary Collaborations: Collective Reflections on Decentering Academia in Knowledge Production

This commentary discusses the necessity of transdisciplinary collaborations between scientists and diverse stakeholders to address global sustainability challenges and describes the process of 'collective unlearning' to reduce the central role of academia in knowledge production.

• Global sustainability challenges, including biodiversity loss, ecosystem loss, environmental degradation, and more intense extreme weather events, necessitate integrated knowledge with real-world applicability created through the combined efforts of scientists across multiple disciplines and stakeholders from government, corporate industry, non-government organizations, and the general public.
• The authors describe the use of collective unlearning processes to decenter academia within collaborations, which aims to create a more equitable position for practitioners involved in global sustainability research.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (2025). Mobilizing Transdisciplinary Collaborations: Collective Reflections on Decentering Academia in Knowledge Production. https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/mobilizing-transdisciplinary-collaborations-collective-reflections-on-decentering-academia-in-knowledge-production/

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Mobilizing Transdisciplinary Collaborations: Collective Reflections on Decentering Academia in Knowledge Production. 2025. https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/mobilizing-transdisciplinary-collaborations-collective-reflections-on-decentering-academia-in-knowledge-production/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearch2025mobilizing, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{Mobilizing Transdisciplinary Collaborations: Collective Reflections on Decentering Academia in Knowledge Production}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, year = {2025}, month = jan, url = {https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/mobilizing-transdisciplinary-collaborations-collective-reflections-on-decentering-academia-in-knowledge-production/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }