Scholarship with the potential to:

Organizations that facilitate collaboration and information flow between diverse research disciplines and between the research and public policy community.

The benefits humans enjoy directly from nature, supporting life as we know it, including the human species. Example: timber from forests, clean drinking water, buffering of floods by wetlands, aesthetics and spiritual value of nature.

The study of knowledge, i.e., what it is, how it is acquired, and to what extent it can be known. This field is relevant to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary team science, as each scholarly discipline has its own epistemology that influences what questions are posed, what methods are used, and how scholars conduct their research. Building bri [..]

A research method in which scientists from different disciplines work together to define problems, and identify methodologies to solve them.

A person who uses knowledge generated through research to make informed decisions about policies, programs and/or best practices. For SESYNC, examples of knowledge users include policy-makers, natural resource managers, business leaders, households, etc.

A research method in which scientists from different disciplines work independently, then combine their findings to address a common problem.

The ability of a system to respond and adapt to shocks or pressures in order to prevent a qualitative, negative change in the state of a system.

A research approach that accelerates the production of knowledge about the complex interactions between human and natural systems and involves distilling or integrating data, ideas, theories, or methods from the natural and social sciences. This approach may result in new data products, particularly ones that address questions in new spatial or tem [..]

Tightly linked social and biophysical subsystems that mutually influence one another. Example: human behaviors, decisions, and policies influence the status of ecosystems (e.g., water quality) that, in turn, influence human beings’ quality of life and future decisions.