Arpin Isabelle, Massart Clémence, Bourret Vincent, Castel Guillaume, Colombo Valeria Carolina, Eccard Jana, Firozpoor Jasmin, Grzybek Maciej, Henttonen Heikki A, Leirs Herwig, McManus Andrew, Roche Ben, Sironen Tarja, Sluydts Vincent, Stuart Peter, Zintl Annetta, Charbonnel Nathalie
Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAE), Paris, France.
University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Front Vet Sci. 2024 Dec 18;11:1235183. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1235183. eCollection 2024.
Inter- and transdisciplinary research (ITDR) is increasingly promoted to address "wicked problems", particularly in health sectors adopting approaches like Ecohealth. Our Ecohealth-inspired project on rodent-borne diseases, initiated just before the COVID-19 pandemic, provided an opportunity to evaluate ITDR implementation.
We employed a recently developed semi-quantitative evaluation method to measure our project's success in achieving ITDR and analyzed factors influencing this achievement.
The project showed strengths in system description, team task allocation, and data sharing, but had lower scores in engaging societal actors throughout the project cycle.
We identified the underexplored influence of problem wickedness as a critical determinant of ITDR success. Addressing rodent-borne diseases, a less wicked problem, limited engagement potential but enabled constructive dialog with local actors. These insights are vital for addressing variably wicked problems in a polycrisis era. We propose recommendations to strengthen researchers' capacities, particularly in Ecohealth.
跨学科和跨领域研究（ITDR）越来越多地被推广以解决“棘手问题”，特别是在采用生态健康等方法的卫生部门。我们受生态健康启发开展的关于鼠传疾病的项目，在新冠疫情爆发前启动，为评估ITDR的实施提供了一个机会。
我们采用了一种最近开发的半定量评估方法来衡量我们项目在实现ITDR方面的成功程度，并分析影响这一成就的因素。
该项目在系统描述、团队任务分配和数据共享方面表现出优势，但在整个项目周期中让社会行为者参与方面得分较低。
我们确定了问题棘手程度这一未被充分探索的影响因素是ITDR成功的关键决定因素。解决鼠传疾病这一棘手程度较低的问题，限制了参与潜力，但促成了与当地行为者的建设性对话。这些见解对于在多重危机时代解决不同程度的棘手问题至关重要。我们提出了加强研究人员能力的建议，特别是在生态健康领域。
