Journal article
Evaluating Collaborative Readiness for Interdisciplinary Flood Research
Risk analysis, Vol.41(7), pp.1187-1194
07/2021
DOI: 10.1111/risa.13249
PMCID: PMC8359342
PMID: 30536453
Abstract
Increasing trends in global flood risk are driven by a complex web of interactions among natural, built environment, and social systems. As a result, flood resilience research is an ideal topic for an interdisciplinary approach. Core characteristics of interdisciplinary research are team collaboration and the systematic integration of disciplinary knowledge, in both problem formulation and analytical methods. Indicators of interdisciplinarity tend to focus on scholarly outcomes, but collaborative processes may be even more important for knowledge integration. In this Perspective piece, we outline and advocate a two‐pronged approach to enhance potential for integrating knowledge: using collaborative proximity to assess team readiness to conduct interdisciplinary research and employing program evaluation to assess change in proximity components over time. To do so, we draw on scholarship in economic geography, team science, and program evaluation. We then connect the findings to a case study of collaboration within our interdisciplinary team of flood researchers, program evaluators, and local stakeholders, as we navigate a multi‐institutional project on flood resilience.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Evaluating Collaborative Readiness for Interdisciplinary Flood Research
- Creators
- Eric Tate - University of IowaValerie Decker - University of IowaCraig Just - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Risk analysis, Vol.41(7), pp.1187-1194
- DOI
- 10.1111/risa.13249
- PMID
- 30536453
- PMCID
- PMC8359342
- NLM abbreviation
- Risk Anal
- ISSN
- 0272-4332
- eISSN
- 1539-6924
- Number of pages
- 8
- Grant note
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (13‐NDRP‐013)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/2021
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering; Public Policy Center (Archive); Geographical and Sustainability Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984197090602771
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