The TD Wheel: A heuristic to shape, support and evaluate transdisciplinary research

Futures

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1146-1155

  Carew, Anna L ^a   Wickson, Fern ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Center for Biosafety   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; FUTURE PROSPECT; HEURISTICS; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAKEHOLDER; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 78649702897     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2010.04.025     Document Type: Article

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