TY  - BOOK
ED  - Manfredo, Michael J.
ED  - Vaske, Jerry J.
ED  - Rechkemmer, Andreas
ED  - Duke, Esther A.
AB  - In this edited volume leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration opportunities and challenges. This book explores the growing concern of how best to achieve effective integration of the social science disciplines as a means for furthering natural resource social science and environmental problem solving. The chapters provide an overview of the history, vision, advances, examples and methods that could lead to integration. The quest for integration among the social sciences is not new. Some argue that the social sciences have lagged in their advancements and contributions to society due to their inability to address integration related issues. Integration merits debate for a number of reasons. First, natural resource issues are complex and are affected by multiple proximate driving social factors. Single disciplinary studies focused at one level are unlikely to provide explanations that represent this complexity and are limited in their ability to inform policy recommendations. Complex problems are best explored across disciplines that examine social-ecological phenomenon from different scales. Second, multi-disciplinary initiatives such as those with physical and biological scientists are necessary to understand the scope of the social sciences. Too frequently there is a belief that one social scientist on a multi-disciplinary team provides adequate social science representation. Third, more complete models of human behavior will be achieved through a synthesis of diverse social science perspectives.
DO  - 10.1007/978-94-017-8959-2
ID  - OAPEN ID: 608246
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 881474202
KW  - social science integration opportunities and challenges
KW  - water managing
KW  - social ecological systems
KW  - status of integration
KW  - humanity and the biosphere (mahb)
KW  - representing human individuals
KW  - environmental problem solving
KW  - human sustainability
KW  - livelihoods
KW  - poverty and conservation
KW  - resouce challenges and conflicts
KW  - emerging infectious diseases
KW  - land degradation and desertification
KW  - risk governance research
KW  - science during crisis
KW  - facilitating social science integration
KW  - land change research and modeling
KW  - solving sustainability challenges
KW  - natural resource social science integration
KW  - the social-ecological system framework
KW  - climate change and society
KW  - Decision-making
KW  - Socio-ecological system
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/cef28a5a-85c5-46ed-b67c-f19e510ad895/608246.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32706
PB  - Springer Nature
PY  - 2014
SN  - 9789401789592
TI  - Understanding Society and Natural Resources: Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciencesnull
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