The dangerous climate of disciplinary tunnel vision

Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change: Transforming Knowledge and Practice for Our Global Future

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 54-84

  Næss, Petter ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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