Introduction

SHiFT COST Action CA21166 – Social Sciences and Humanities for Transformation and Climate Resilience – explores innovative concepts and theoretical frames that mobilize Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences generated knowledge for integrated and hybrid societal transformations in climate change strategies. This mission requires an inclusive and dynamic approach to transdisciplinary exchange, an approach that repositions the relationship between theory and practice, science and society, politics and culture. By combining interdisciplinary, experimental and co-created knowledge, innovative solutions emerge to address complex environmental issues, because collaborative efforts across disciplines build effective mitigation, adaptation, and resilience-building strategies in the face of the rapidly accelerating complexity of climate challenges. This transition from individual to collaborative knowledge requires that work produced by the more than 300 researchers from over 30 countries that constitute the SHiFT community is shared and published. [...]