Multidisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity: Theoretical Approaches and Implications for the Strategy of Post-Crisis Sustainable Development

Abstract

The science of sustainability connects with many different disciplines and research areas in specific ways that implies the pursue of multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary researches. The paper proposes an insight into the key complex problems of sustainable economic development, by addressing this issue in relation to the concepts of multi-, inter- and transdisciplinarity, as well as exploring their implications and possible long-term effects on the post-crisis economic development.

Keywords

• multidisciplinarity
• interdisciplinarity
• transdisciplinarity
• sustainability
• crisis
• complexity theory