Abstract Environmental issues, bringing together the natural and the social spheres, are probably one of the most appropriate fields of development for transdisciplinary research. Transdisciplinarity, in addition to other contemporary epistemological paradigms, stresses the need to approach complex problems by blending new forms of non-expert knowledge with combined epistemologies. However, practical application of the transdisciplinary approach is still almost non-existent in everyday socio-environmental management. This paper has a two-fold aim: firstly, to establish the suitability of the transdisciplinary approach in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) as a means of rectifying a common incapacity to address the social dimension in the assessment process; and secondly, to evaluate this idea from the perspective of technicians and professionals in the EIA sector in Spain. To this end, a qualitative methodology was used, based on semi-structured interviews, which enabled in-depth investigation of the willingness of specialists to effectively integrate new forms of knowledge into the EIA procedure. Further, interviewees evaluated the real possibilities of widening public participation in the process of identifying and assessing impacts and discussed the difficulties facing the treatment and analysis of the social dimension within the EIA process.

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环境影响评估的跨学科框架：西班牙从业者的机遇和阻力

摘要 环境问题将自然和社会领域结合在一起，可能是跨学科研究最合适的发展领域之一。除了其他当代认识论范式之外，跨学科性强调需要通过将新形式的非专家知识与组合认识论相结合来解决复杂问题。然而，在日常社会环境管理中，跨学科方法的实际应用仍然几乎不存在。本文有两个目的：首先，确定跨学科方法在环境影响评估 (EIA) 中的适用性，作为纠正评估过程中解决社会层面普遍缺乏能力的一种手段；其次，从西班牙 EIA 部门的技术人员和专业人士的角度评估这一想法。为此，使用了基于半结构化访谈的定性方法，该方法能够深入调查专家是否愿意将新形式的知识有效地整合到 EIA 程序中。此外，受访者评估了在确定和评估影响的过程中扩大公众参与的真正可能性，并讨论了在环评过程中处理和分析社会维度所面临的困难。