Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (181 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781444328493
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=645001
DDC:
304.28072
Language:
English
Note:
Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies: A Primer -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1: Introduction -- Challenges and opportunities -- On quality -- Background -- A note on terminology -- Notes -- 2: Beyond CP Snow -- Quantitative and qualitative studies -- Improved understanding and quality -- Drawing on commonalities -- Context dependence and quantification -- Interpretation and context -- Notes -- 3: Questioning to learn and learning to question -- Part I : Interdisciplinary expectations (Questions 1 to 3) -- Part II : Transacademic aspirations (Questions 4 and 5) -- Part III : A cademic rigour (Questions 6 to 10) -- Notes -- 4: Why do you conduct interdisciplinary work? -- Where do you position yourself on the reflection scale? (Question 1) -- To what end are you using knowledge from different disciplines? (Question 2) -- What makes your work interdisciplinary? (Question 3) -- Notes -- 5: Why do you interact with society? -- Academic knowledge and decision-making -- Who participates in which part of the study and how? ( Question 4) -- Why do you interact with society? (Question 5) -- A word of warning: Don't be snobbish -- Notes -- 6: Rigorous but not rigid -- On quality assessment -- Confusing form and credibility - an example -- Communication -- Notes -- 7: Marking your playground -- Framing -- Aim -- Operationalizing the aim -- Confusing interdisciplinarity with "Everything" -- Notes -- 8: Evidence that holds for scrutiny -- How or why? -- Common procedures -- Mixing various types of empirical evidence -- Notes -- 9: Anchoring your canoe -- Clarifying your sources -- Anchoring your frame -- Anchoring your method -- Notes -- 10: Analysis -- Defining "analysis" -- Clarifying the own, the new -- Relevant literature - your canon -- Common knowledge -- Textbooks -- The style of recognized scholars -- Passive and active voice -- Notes.
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11: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder -- Heading -- Where do I place the reflections? -- Where do I describe the context? -- References -- Notes -- 12: Being interdisciplinary -- Creating an open and respectful climate -- Hierarchies that impair -- Humbleness and courage -- Outstanding studies -- Dialogue, feedback and how to manage supervisors -- Notes -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Index.
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