This book is an ambitious undertaking - a research documentation that describes a wide variety
of approaches to knowledge production relevant to development policy and illustrates the
diverse possibilities of transdisciplinary development research within 25 projects in 15
countries. The editor encouraged the 105 authors - 46 female 59 male - to investigate
questions problems and dimensions of knowledge production that are usually not addressed in
research and project reports. Project planning no matter how successful can only partially
anticipate the social reality of implementing a project. Flexibility creativity and
improvisation are indispensable prerequisites for successful project implementation in often
difficult research conditions. Thus this book is not only a documentation of the second phase
of the Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research for Development - APPEAR
- but also a discursive contribution on practical approaches to transdisciplinary and
transcultural knowledge production.
