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Provedor de dados: | 7
País: | Canada
Título: | Growing into Interdisciplinarity: How to Converge Biology, Economics, and Social Science in Fisheries Research?
Autores: | Kulmala, Soile; Marine Research Centre, Finnish Environment Institute; MTT Agrifood Research, Finland; Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute; soile.kulmala@ymparisto.fi; Kuikka, Sakari; Fisheries and Environmental Management Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki; sakari.kuikka@helsinki.fi.
Data: | 2012-02-06
Ano: | 2012
Palavras-chave: | Baltic Sea salmon fisheries; Bayesian belief networks; Bioeconomic modeling; Integrated model; Interdisciplinarity  interdisciplinary learning; Fisheries research; Methodological epoch&amp;#232; ; Multidisciplinarity.
Resumo: | It has been acknowledged that natural sciences alone cannot provide an adequate basis for the management of complex environmental problems. The scientific knowledge base has to be expanded in a more holistic direction by incorporating social and economic issues. As well, the multifaceted knowledge has to be summarized in a form that can support science-based decision making. This is, however, difficult. Interdisciplinary skills, practices, and methodologies are needed that enable the integration of knowledge from conceptually different disciplines. Through a focus on our research process, we analyzed how and what kind of interdisciplinarity between natural scientists, environmental economists, and social scientists grew from the need to better understand the complexity and uncertainty inherent to the Baltic salmon fisheries, and how divergent knowledge was integrated in a form that can support science-based decision making. The empirical findings suggest that interdisciplinarity is an extensive learning process that takes place on three levels: between individuals, between disciplines, and between types of knowledge. Such a learning process is facilitated by agreeing to a methodological epoch&amp;#232; and by formulating a global question at the outset of a process.
Tipo: | Peer-Reviewed Reports
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | vol17/iss1/art6/
Editor: | Resilience Alliance
Formato: | text/html application/pdf
Fonte: | Ecology and Society; Vol. 17, No. 1 (2012)