Climate change and transdisciplinary science: Problematizing the integration imperative

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 54, Issue , 2015, Pages 160-167

  Klenk, Nicole ^a   Meehan, Katie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change adaptation; Experimentation; Futures research; Knowledge co production; Multiple evidence base approach; Ontological politics; Scenario building; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; INTEGRATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENCE; SOCIAL LEARNING;

EID: 84937405362     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2015.05.017     Document Type: Review

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