Transdisciplinary dialogue as an approach to study climate change

Abstract

Transdisciplinarity is a form of knowledge generation dialogue. The traditional knowledge of the natural and social sciences are openly debated with accumulated empirical experience in people and social organizations. Through this dialogue to college and peasant organizations, they seek adaptation strategies to climate change that would enable them to improve their living conditions and predict a future for their families. This article describes a transdisciplinary dialogue in the second semester of 2014, from a mapping of plots and construction of community memories. The recognition of responsibility for the destruction of the earth and reflection on the life of that land allow thinking of strategies to survive the destruction and take care of that life. The identification in each community about the levels of vulnerability and resilience of each plot opens up farm plans that focus on productive transformation to a family and organizational strategy of human development and climate change adaptation.

Keywords: Transdisciplinarity, participatory action research, climate change adaptation, resilience and development.