Transdisciplinary research on environmental governance: A view from the inside

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 42, Issue , 2014, Pages 90-100

  Mattor, Katherine ^a   Betsill, Michele ^b   Huayhuaca, Ch'aska ^a   Huber Stearns, Heidi ^a   Jedd, Theresa ^b   Sternlieb, Faith ^b   Bixler, Patrick ^b   Luizza, Matthew ^c   Cheng, Antony S ^a  

^a and Department of Statistics   (United States)

^b Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^c Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary; Collaborative graduate research; Environmental governance; Intermountain West; Transdisciplinary

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE; FOREST; GEOGRAPHY; GRADUATE STUDENT; HUMAN; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PEER GROUP; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84903477198     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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