Pausing at the brink of interdisciplinarity: Power and knowledge at the meeting of social and biophysical science

Ecology and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  MacMynowski, Dena P ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interdisciplinarity; Philosophy of science; Power; Power knowledge; Research methods; Social biophysical systems; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; PHILOSOPHY;

EID: 34447333643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-02009-120120     Document Type: Article

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