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Tackling Wicked Problems :Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination edited by Valerie A. Brown, John A. Harris and Jacqueline Y. Russell.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010.Description: xx, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781844079247
  • 9781844079254 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 507.2 BRO 22
LOC classification:
  • Q180.55.I48 T33 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
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
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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