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Tackling Wicked Problems :Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination edited by Valerie A. Brown, John A. Harris and Jacqueline Y. Russell. - London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010. - xx, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Foreword
Acknowledgments;
Part I: The Ideas;
1. Towards a Just and Sustainable Future;
2. Beyond Disciplinary Confinement to Imaginative Transdisciplinarity;
3. A Philosophical Framework for an Open and Critical Transdisciplinary Inquiry;
4. Collective Inquiry and Its Wicked Problems;
5. Ignorance and Uncertainty;
Part II: The Practice Overview;
6. Conducting an Imaginative Transdisciplinary Inquiry;
7. Specialized Inquiry;
7a 'Now I'm Not an Expert in Anything;
7b Global Inequalities in Research;
7c Applying Specialized Knowledge;
8. Community-based Inquiry Overview;
8a Inclusive Governance for Sustainability;
8b Fences and Windows;
8c Calculating Community Risk;
9. Organisational Inquiry Overview;
9a Embedded Scales;
9b Adaptiveness and Openness;
9c Truth, Knowledge and Data;
10. Individual-focused Inquiry Overview;
10a Making Their Way;
10b White Skin, Black Masks;
10c Exploring the Doctoral Interface;
11. Holistic Inquiry Overview;
11a Designerly Ways of Knowing;
11b Rethinking Change;
11c All Knowledge Is Indigenous;
Part III: The Future Overview;
12. Human Ecology and Open Transdisciplinary Inquiry;
13. Can There Be a Community of Practice;
Glossary;
Index

ISBN: 9781844079247 9781844079254 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2010000826

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Interdisciplinary research.
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
Social problems--Environmental aspects.

LC Class. No.: Q180.55.I48 / T33 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 507.2 BRO