Tackling wicked problems through the transdisciplinary imagination /
From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' pr...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; Washington, DC :
Earthscan,
2010
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Part 1 The Ideas; Chapter 1 Towards a Just and Sustainable Future; Chapter 2 Beyond Disciplinary Confinement to Imaginative Transdisciplinarity; Chapter 3 A Philosophical Framework for an Open and Critical Transdisciplinary Inquiry; Chapter 4 Collective Inquiry and Its Wicked Problems; Chapter 5 Ignorance and Uncertainty; Part 2 The Practice; Overview; Chapter 6 Conducting an Imaginative Transdisciplinary Inquiry; Chapter 7 Specialized Inquiry; Chapter 8 Community-Based Inquiry.
