Artículo
Interdisciplinarity as an emergent property: The research project "CINTERA" and the study of marine eutrophication
Fecha
2015Registro en:
Sustainability (Switzerland) Volume 7, Issue 7, Pages 9118 - 91392015
2071-1050
10.3390/su7079118
Autor
Bailey, Jennifer
Van Ardelan, Murat
Hernández, Klaudia L.
González, Humberto E.
Iriarte, José Luis
Olsen, Lasse Mork
Salgado, Hugo
Tiller, Rachel
Institución
Resumen
Research projects combining different disciplines are increasingly common and sought after by funding agencies looking for ways to achieve environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Creating and running a truly integrated research project that combines very different disciplines is, however, no easy task. Large-scale efforts to create interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research efforts have reported on their experiences in trying to achieve this goal. This article shares the methods, challenges and achievements experienced by a smaller group of researchers who have developed an interdisciplinary approach based on former results of Norwegian and Chilean experiments. The project "A Cross-disciplinary Integrated Eco-system Eutrophication Research and Management Approach" (CINTERA), funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN, project 216607), brings together the fields of political science, economics, marine biology/oceanography and marine bio-geo-chemistry to improve the understanding of marine eutrophication and its possible socio-economic impacts. CINTERA is a multidisciplinary project that evolved into an interdisciplinary project and in so doing, transformed the attitudes of participants. The transformative process was generated particularly by the need to work closely together in making the CINTERA project useful for policy-makers. © 2015 by the authors.