Increasing the frame: Interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and representativity

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 203-212

  Meyer, Morgan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCLOSED SPACES; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION; REPRESENTATIVITY; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; TRANSDISCIPLINARITY;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 35448948700     PISSN: 03080188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/030801807X211702     Document Type: Article

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