Growing into interdisciplinarity: how to converge biology, economics and social science in fisheries research?
Haapasaari, Päivi; Kulmala, Soile; Kuikka, Sakari (2012)
Haapasaari, Päivi
Kulmala, Soile
Kuikka, Sakari
Julkaisusarja
Ecology and Society
Volyymi
17
Numero
1
Sivut
12 p
2012
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Tiivistelmä
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 epoch and by formulating a global question at the outset of a process.
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