From Complex Systems to Transdisciplinarity

• Preface and Acknowledgments; Gerardo del Cerro Santamarí­a.Section I: Introduction.Chapter 1. Introduction: From Complex Systems to Transdisciplinarity; Gerardo del Cerro Santamarí­a.Section II: Complex Resilience.Chapter 2. A Transdisciplinary Approach to Resilience: Limits and Possibilities of a Psycho-Sociological Strategic Game; Jesús Romero Moñivas.Chapter 3. Resilience, Systemic Entropy, and Disruptive Complexity: The Case of Urban Megaprojects; Gerardo del Cerro Santamarí­a.Chapter 4. Complexity in Higher Education: The Resilience of Researchers in Times of a Pandemic; Luiz Sí­veres and Lucicleide Araújo.Section III: Complex Sustainability.Chapter 5. Collective Consumption and Food System Complexity: Citizen Mobilization, Territorial Rescaling, and Transformative Change; Taylor Davey and Diane E. Davis.Chapter 6. Social Complexity and Organizational Reflexivity: Harnessing Ethical AI Surveillance for Climate Change Governmentality; Eliana Herrera-Vega.Chapter 7. Transdisciplinary Resilience and Sustainability: Hospitality and Habitability in Healthcare Settings; Luí­s Gouveia, Catarina Delaunay, and Rita Morais.Chapter 8. On Urban Complexity: A Transdisciplinary Approach for a Just Eco-Social Transition; Fernando Dí­az Orueta.Section IV: Rethinking Transdisciplinarity.Chapter 9. Transdisciplinary Thinking: Nicolescuian, Zurich, and Brazilian Approaches; Sue L. T. McGregor.Chapter 10. Integrative Transdisciplinarity: Explorations and Experiments in Creative Scholarship; Alfonso Montuori.Section V: Conclusions And Implications.Chapter 11. Conclusions: Summary of Findings and Implications; Gerardo del Cerro Santamarí­a.References.About the Contributors.Index.

This volume, edited and co-authored by Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría, is an important book for our times. It illustrates the necessity of utilizing transdisciplinary approaches to address the unremitting onslaught of environmental disasters in the post-COVID-19 era. It serves as an essential primer for understanding the critical intersections between complexity, sustainability, and resilience. Readers will undoubtedly become more reflective about their own inquiries as they learn how scholars from different fields integrate knowledge to offer innovative and meticulously researched insights regarding many of today’s most pressing global issues.