Transdisciplinary unified theory

Abstract

Abstract Numerous complex issues of the most varied kinds are emerging in our ever more interconnected man–planet settings. Such situations cannot be anymore managed by the piecemeal and uncoordinated interventions that result from growing chasms between multiple specialized disciplines. Accordingly, interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity should be framed or, in cases, replaced by transdisciplinarity. Transdisciplinarity in turn supposes the existence of a specific language of concepts and models. It should be understandable and usable by any specialist in need to collaborate with a variety of colleagues of other fields. Such a language has emerged since 1950 as Cybernetics and Systemics (or so‐called systems sciences or sciences of complexity). It is still becoming richer and better connected internally as it steadily acquires new conceptual tools adequated to the study of dynamic, simultaneous, multiple and interdependent interactions in complex issues. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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