Integrative environmental research and education

Matthias Ruth*

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)632-643
Number of pages12
JournalInternational Journal of Environmental Technology and Management
Volume7
Issue number5-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2007

Keywords

  • Complexity
  • Environmental education
  • Environmental science
  • Integration

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