Crafting usable knowledge for sustainable development

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 4570-4578

  Clark, William C ^a   Van Kerkhoff, Lorrae ^b   Lebel, Louis ^c   Gallopin, Gilberto C ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d Independent Scholar   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Capacity; Coproduction; Knowledge systems; Science policy interface; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INTROSPECTION; KNOWLEDGE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENTIST; SOCIAL LEARNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PERSONNEL; RESEARCH;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; RESEARCH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 84964703129     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1601266113     Document Type: Review

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