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Research policy favours projects that integrate disciplinary knowledge and involve non-academic stakeholders. Consequently, integrative concepts - interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity - are gaining currency in landscape research and planning. Researchers are excited by the prospect of merging disciplinary and non-academic expertise to improve their understanding and performance, but often struggle with the challenges of operationalizing integration.
This book provides guidelines for those coping with these challenges, whether they are members of an integrative research team or individuals working on a problem that demands integration. They must define terminology, choose appropriate methodologies, overcome epistemological barriers and cope with the high expectations of some stakeholders while encouraging others to participate at all.
List of contents
Trends in landscape research and landscape planning: implications for PhD students.- Developing integrative theory and concepts.- Defining concepts and process of knowledge production in integrative research.- From holistic landscape synthesis to transdisciplinary landscape management.- Ecosystem networks: a spatial concept for integrative research and planning of landscapes.- Integrating physical and human dynamics in landscape trajectories: exemplified at the Aulnages watershed (Québec, Canada).- Challenges of interdisciplinarity for forest management and landscape perception research.- Landscape's ocular-centrism: and beyond?.- Developing integrative tools and methods.- Bio-regional pattern and spatial narratives for integrative landscape research and design.- Theories, methods and strategies for sustainable landscape planning.- Water quality modelling for decision-making: the drinking-water watersheds of Sydney, Australia.- Integrating landscape and water resources planning with focus on sustainability.- Changing conceptualization of landscape in English landscape assessment methods.- European nature conservation policy: challenges for local implementation in Germany.- Training and education for integration.- PhD students and integrative research.- Educating the children of the mode-2 revolution.- Effective communication in integrative projects.- Ten steps to success in integrative research projects.- How to publish a peer-reviewed research paper from integrative landscape research.- Applying integrative concepts.- Linking preference for environments with their restorative quality.- Nature meets aesthetics on cultural grounds: a multidisciplinary study of grave mounds in Norway.- Sustaining urban ecosystem services with local stewards participation in Stockholm(Sweden).- Integrating nature conservation and landscape management in farming systems in the Friesian Woodland.- Building landscape memory through combined sources: commons afforestation in Portugal.- Integrating landscape ecology in environmental impact assessment using GIS and ecological modelling.- Applying special heterogeneity indices in changing landscapes in the Czech Republic.- Integration of ecological knowledge at a landscape level for conservation policies in agricultural areas.- Setting up an integrative research approach for sustaining wild rice (Zizania palustris) in the Upper Great Lakes Region of North America.- Established and recent policy arrangements for river management in The Netherlands: an analysis of discourses.- From river to ridge: local governance and the implementation of improved water management.- Conclusion.- Considerations for future education in integrative landscape research.
Summary
Research policy favours projects that integrate disciplinary knowledge and involve non-academic stakeholders. Consequently, integrative concepts – interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity – are gaining currency in landscape research and planning. Researchers are excited by the prospect of merging disciplinary and non-academic expertise to improve their understanding and performance, but often struggle with the challenges of operationalizing integration.
This book provides guidelines for those coping with these challenges, whether they are members of an integrative research team or individuals working on a problem that demands integration. They must define terminology, choose appropriate methodologies, overcome epistemological barriers and cope with the high expectations of some stakeholders while encouraging others to participate at all.
