Tackling wicked problems through the transdisciplinary imagination / edited by Valerie A. Brown, John A. Harris and Jacqueline Y. Russell.
by
Brown, Valerie A., editor.
ISBN
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9781849776530
Title
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Tackling wicked problems through the transdisciplinary imagination / edited by Valerie A. Brown, John A. Harris and Jacqueline Y. Russell.
Author
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Brown, Valerie A., editor.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (326 pages)
Contents
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Part I: The Ideas -- 1. Towards a Just and Sustainable Future -- 2. Beyond Disciplinary Confinement to Imaginative Transdisciplinarity -- 3. A Philosophical Framework for an Open and Critical Transdisciplinary Inquiry -- 4. Collective Inquiry and Its Wicked Problems -- 5. Ignorance and Uncertainty -- Part II: The Practice -- 6. Conducting an Imaginative Transdisciplinary Inquiry -- 7. Specialized Inquiry -- 7a 'Now I'm Not an Expert in Anything': challenges in undertaking transdisciplinary inquiries across the social and biophysical sciences -- 7b Global Inequalities in Research: a transdisciplinary exploration of causes and consequences -- 7c Applying Specialized Knowledge -- 8. Community-based Inquiry -- 8a Inclusive Governance for Sustainability -- 8b Fences and Windows: using visual methods to explore conflicts in land and seascape management -- 8c Calculating Community Risk: a transdisciplinary inquiry into contemporary understanding of risk -- 9. Organisational Inquiry -- 9a Embedded Scales: interdisclipinary and institutional issues -- 9b Adaptiveness and Openness in ecosystem management: an exemplary sensitivity -- 9c Truth, Knowledge and Data: a study of truth-building in organizational change -- 10. Individual-focused Inquiry -- 10a Making Their Way: releasing the potential of environmental studies graduates -- 10b White Skin, Black Masks: a personal narrative on benevolent racism -- 10c Exploring the Doctoral Interface -- 11. Holistic Inquiry -- 11a Designerly Ways of Knowing: what does design have to offer? -- 11b Rethinking Change -- 11c All Knowledge Is Indigenous -- Part III: The Future -- 12. Human Ecology and Open Transdisciplinary Inquiry -- 13. Can There Be a Community of Practice?
Subject Term
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Interdisciplinary research
Social problems -- Environmental aspects.
Added Author
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Brown, Valerie A.,
Harris, John A. (John Alfred), 1941-,
Russell, Jacqueline Y.,
Format
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Books
Electronic Access
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Publication Information
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London
Washington, DC
Earthscan,
2010.
Shelf Number | Material Type | Copy | Shelf Location | Status |
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360 TAC | 1:E-BOOK | 1 | 1:ONLINE | Available for online access and/or download |