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Interdisciplinary
study is an academic process seeking to synthesize broad per-
spectives, knowledge, skills, interconnections, and epistemology in order to
facilitate the study of subjects which have some coherence, but which cannot be
adequately understood from a single disciplinary perspective. Interdisciplinary is
by now a stand-alone discipline (Jones and Macdonald,
2007
)
Transdisciplinarity
implies the interrelation of disciplinary generated knowl-
edge and non-disciplinary generated knowledge and its application to complex
problems and issues (Webster,
2009
).
The close relation between sustainable development and transdisciplinarity is due to
the fact that research for sustainable development has to be issue-oriented and reflect
the diversity, complexity, and dynamics of the processes involved. It is possible
therefore to examine complexity on a discipline-by-discipline basis.
1.4 Conclusions
The studies on sustainable development if mountain regions must be directed to suc-
cessful implementation of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy but also they
have to find implementation in the policies for sustainable development grounded
in an economic theory that includes throughput, “green” technologies innovations,
and ecosystem services as its most basic concepts. Implementation of the DPSIR in
the studies on sustainability in mountain regions provides good research basis for
integration of the abovementioned goals and for knowledge generation.
Transdisciplinarity is most relevant to the current dynamic processes under con-
ditions of global change and to the study of the sustainable development in mountain
regions using DPSIR model and SDI.
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