When Natural met Social: A Review of Collaboration between the Natural and Social Sciences

This paper investigates the opportunities for further collaboration between the natural and social sciences. From 81 systematically identified and reviewed papers published in scientific journals, it became clear that complex situations that depend on human behaviour as well as natural processes req...

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Published in:Interdisciplinary science reviews 2011-12, Vol.36 (4), p.341-358
Main Authors: Fischer, Arnout R H, Tobi, Hilde, Ronteltap, Amber
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Best practice
Collaboration
Communities
domestic environment
education
environmental science
Human behavior
improving food safety
interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinary research
knowledge
literature review
management
natural science-social science collaboration
Organizations
Scientists
Skills
Social sciences
sustainability
systems
transdisciplinary approach
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Summary:This paper investigates the opportunities for further collaboration between the natural and social sciences. From 81 systematically identified and reviewed papers published in scientific journals, it became clear that complex situations that depend on human behaviour as well as natural processes require natural-social science collaboration. The creation of a community of collaborative natural-social science research, that learns from and can contribute to best practice across the sciences, is advocated to support natural- social science collaboration. Across disciplines, it became clear that such a community should deal with (1) difference between paradigms in the current sciences; (2) creation of skills and competences of the involved scientists; (3) scarcity of institutions sympathetic to collaborative research; and (4) the internal organization of collaborative projects.
ISSN:0308-0188
1743-2790
DOI:10.1179/030801811X13160755918688