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Interdisciplinarity: How to catalyse collaboration

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  • Rebekah R. Brown

    (Rebekah R. Brown is director of the Monash Sustainability Institute at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and is in the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities.)

  • Ana Deletic

    (Ana Deletic is at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and in the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities.)

  • Tony H. F. Wong

    (Tony H. F. Wong is at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and in the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities.)

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Turn the fraught flirtation between the social and biophysical sciences into fruitful partnerships with these five principles, urge Rebekah R. Brown, Ana Deletic and Tony H. F. Wong.

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  • Rebekah R. Brown & Ana Deletic & Tony H. F. Wong, 2015. "Interdisciplinarity: How to catalyse collaboration," Nature, Nature, vol. 525(7569), pages 315-317, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:525:y:2015:i:7569:d:10.1038_525315a
    DOI: 10.1038/525315a
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