'Now I'm not an expert in anything': Challenges in undertaking transdisciplinary inquiries across the social and biophysical sciences

Tackling Wicked Problems: Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination

Volumn 9781849776530, Issue , 2010, Pages 117-129

  Aslin, Heather J ^a   Blackstock, Kirsty L ^b  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Macaulay Land Use Research Institute   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781849776530     Document Type: Chapter

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