Practices for facilitating interdisciplinary synthetic research: The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Volumn 19, Issue , 2016, Pages 111-122

  Palmer, Margaret A ^a,b   Kramer, Jonathan G ^a   Boyd, James ^a,c   Hawthorne, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84969389670     PISSN: 18773435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2016.01.002     Document Type: Review

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