Title: Integrative environmental research and education

Authors: Matthias Ruth

Addresses: Division of Research, School of Public Policy and A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, Van Munching Hall, Suite 2202, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Abstract: This paper is based on the premise that without integration of knowledge across disciplines, without integration of research with education, and without dialogue between science and stakeholders, opportunities to bound the complexity of environmental processes will be missed. Without adequate integration, solutions to environmental challenges will be partial at best, and new problems and unintended impacts will likely arise that prevent natural resource, economic and social systems from flourishing. On that premise, the paper explores what specifically needs to be integrated, and why, how that integration may occur, and what emotive, social and institutional conditions need to be achieved that may foster integration.

Keywords: environmental science; knowledge integration; environmental education; complexity.

DOI: 10.1504/IJETM.2007.015634

International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, 2007 Vol.7 No.5/6, pp.632 - 643

Published online: 06 Nov 2007 *

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