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Interdisciplinarity and Sustainable Development: Policy Implications

In: Sustainability Analysis

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  • Beat Bürgenmeier

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This chapter sets out to show that interdisciplinarity in the social sciences cannot be purely thematic but is, methodologically and epistemologically speaking, an integral part of those sciences. Attempts by Renaissance thinkers to gain a comprehensive understanding of society in all its complexity inevitably led to the fragmentation of knowledge. As a result, the ‘whole’ is only partially accessible, for the jigsaw puzzle which the various disciplines are attempting to put together through specialization always has some pieces missing — and the pro-founder our knowledge becomes, the more missing pieces there seem to be.

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  • Beat Bürgenmeier, 2012. "Interdisciplinarity and Sustainable Development: Policy Implications," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Sustainability Analysis, chapter 3, pages 52-68, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-36243-7_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230362437_4
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