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Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies:

A Primer
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John Wiley & Sons, Jun 9, 2011 - Science - 184 pages
Environmental issues are inherently interdisciplinary, and environmental academic programs increasingly use an interdisciplinary approach.

This timely book presents a core framework for conducting high quality interdisciplinary research. It focuses on the opportunities rather than the challenges of interdisciplinary work and is written for those doing interdisciplinary work (rather than those studying it). It is designed to facilitate high quality interdisciplinary work and the author uses illustrative examples from student work and papers published in the environmental literature.

This book's lucid, problem-solving approach is framed in an accessible easy-to-read style and will be indispensable for anyone embarking on a research project involving interdisciplinary collaboration.

Readership: graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and researchers involved in the interface between human and natural environmental systems

  

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Contents

Beyond CP Snow
11
Questioning to learn and learning to question
24
Why do you conduct interdisciplinary work?
30
Why do you interact with society?
48
Rigorous but not rigid
61
Marking your playground
74
Evidence that holds for scrutiny
86
Anchoring your canoe
101
Analysis
111
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
131
Being interdisciplinary
142
References
152
Index
158
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Gunilla Öberg, Professor and Director of the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, is a scholar recognized for her groundbreaking research on chlorine biogeochemistry, her work on interdisciplinary research and higher education, as well as for her leadership of interdisciplinary environmental programs.

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