Monday, June 18, 2012

Social scientists demand bigger role in environmental research

SciDev.Net: Social science leaders have launched a campaign to make their work more "visible", saying that their research into global environmental change is being ignored. They argue that social scientists should be central to the process of identifying research topics, and framing questions and methodologies in international research on global change. "Social scientists are often called upon to sell solutions found by natural scientists," Heide Hackmann, executive director of the International Social Sciences...

URL: http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/news/social-scientists-demand-bigger-role-in-environmental-research.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment
Enclosure: http://www.worldsocialscience.org/pdf/ISSC_Transformative_Cornerstones_Report.pdf

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