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Growing into Interdisciplinarity: How to Converge Biology, Economics, and Social Science in Fisheries Research?

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dc.contributor.author Haapasaari, Päivi
dc.contributor.author Kulmala, Soile
dc.contributor.author Kuikka, Sakari
dc.date.accessioned 2012-07-19T15:49:48Z
dc.date.available 2012-07-19T15:49:48Z
dc.date.issued 2012 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8211
dc.description.abstract "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 epochè and by formulating a global question at the outset of a process." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject Baltic Sea en_US
dc.subject salmon en_US
dc.subject fisheries--research en_US
dc.subject Bayesian learning en_US
dc.subject integration--models en_US
dc.subject methodology en_US
dc.title Growing into Interdisciplinarity: How to Converge Biology, Economics, and Social Science in Fisheries Research? en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.subject.sector Fisheries en_US
dc.subject.sector General & Multiple Resources en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Ecology and Society en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 17 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 1 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth March en_US


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