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Tackling wicked problems through the transdisciplinary imagination /

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1844079252 (pbk.)

9781844079247

9781844079254 (pbk.)

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Tackling wicked problems through the transdisciplinary imagination /

[Book]

edited by Valerie A. Brown, John A. Harris and Jacqueline Y. Russell.

Washington, DC :

Earthscan,

2010.

xx, 312 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Towards a just and sustainable future / V. A. Brown, P. M. Deane, J. A. Harris and J. Y. Russell -- Beyond disciplinary confinement to imaginative transdisciplinarity / R. J. Lawrence -- A philosophical framework for an open and critical transdisciplinary inquiry / J. Y. Russell -- Collective inquiry and its wicked problems / V. A. Brown -- Ignorance and uncertainty / M. Smithson -- Conducting an imaginative transdiciplinary inquiry / V. A. Brown -- Specialized Inquiry -- Community-based inquiry -- Organizational inquiry -- Individual-focused inquiry -- Holistic inquiry -- Human ecology and open transdisciplinary inquiry / R. Dyball -- Can there be a community of practice? / V. A. Brown.

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From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressing the shift to sustainable futures. Tackling Wicked Problems provides readers with a framework and practical examples that will guide the design and conduct of their own open-ended enquiries. In this approach, academic disciplines are combined with personal, local and strategic understanding and researchers are required to recognise multiple knowledge cultures, accept the inevitability of uncertainty, and clarify their own and others' ethical positions. The authors then comment on fifteen practical examples of how researchers have engaged with the opportunities and challenges of conducting transdisciplinary inquiries. The book gives those who are grappling with complex problems innovative methods of inquiry that will allow them to work collaboratively towards long-term solutions.--publisher description.

Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.

Interdisciplinary research.

Social problems-- Environmental aspects.

Brown, Valerie A.

Harris, John A., (John Alfred),1941-

Russell, Jacqueline Y.

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