In other words, transdisciplinary approach is a science with society...
Since 2014, we have had interviews to project leaders and main members of seven completed RIHN projects. The interviews have revealed, every project is a team science, and suffers from gaps in understanding focal issues among different disciplines and stakeholders.
We also realized, the research resource accumulated to the RIHN is human resources and case study know-hows rather than data. [click]
This slide shows an example of information asymmetry in a transdisciplinary, or TD project. Regarding the overgrowth of waterweed in Lake Biwa, being studied with the Ecological Recycling Project, research experts and policy makers of the prefectural office, think it is an ecological problem. In contrast, it is a social problem for coastal residents and municipalities because they suffer from bad odor of drifted waterweed and must remove it as rubbish. Moreover, most of the unengaged public seems NOT interested in this socio-environmental issue, even though they are tax payers for that. In this case, the waterweed issue is differently understood in different socio-geographical contexts. [click]
In short, this Core Project aims at a new research paradigm of Open Team Science by integrating Open Science and transdisciplinary Team Science. I will overview these concepts in next slides. [click]