TY - BOOK ID - 38700874 TI - Understanding Society and Natural Resources : Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences AU - Manfredo, Michael J. AU - Vaske, Jerry J. AU - Rechkemmer, Andreas. AU - Duke, Esther A. AU - International Association for Society and Natural Resources PY - 2014 SN - 9789401789592 9789401789677 9789401789585 9401789592 9401789584 PB - Springer Nature DB - UniCat KW - ruimtelijke ordening KW - General ecology and biosociology KW - ecologie KW - Social sciences (general) KW - Environmental planning KW - sociale wetenschappen KW - Social geography KW - Natural resources KW - Sustainability. KW - Social aspects. KW - Malthus, Thomas Robert, KW - Human ecology KW - Ecology KW - Environment, Human KW - Human beings KW - Human environment KW - Ecological engineering KW - Human geography KW - Nature KW - National resources KW - Resources, Natural KW - Resource-based communities KW - Resource curse KW - Social aspects KW - Effect of environment on KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Economic aspects KW - Malʹtus, Tomas Robert, KW - Ma-êrh-sa-ssŭ, KW - Malthus, Robert, KW - Author of the Essay on the principle of population, KW - Marasasu, KW - Essay on the principle of population, Author of the, KW - מלתוס, תומס רוברט, KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Indians KW - Indians of South America KW - Constitutional law KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Government relations. KW - Government relations KW - American aborigines KW - American Indians KW - Government relations with indigenous peoples KW - Constitutional limitations KW - Constitutionalism KW - Constitutions KW - Limitations, Constitutional KW - Public law KW - Administrative law KW - Ethnology KW - Interpretation and construction KW - Social sciences. KW - Ecology. KW - Human Geography. KW - Social Sciences, general. KW - Geoecology/Natural Processes. KW - Anthropo-geography KW - Anthropogeography KW - Geographical distribution of humans KW - Anthropology KW - Geography KW - Balance of nature KW - Biology KW - Bionomics KW - Ecological processes KW - Ecological science KW - Ecological sciences KW - Environment KW - Environmental biology KW - Oecology KW - Environmental sciences KW - Population biology KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Human sciences KW - Sciences, Social KW - Social science KW - Social studies KW - Civilization KW - Geoecology. KW - Environmental geology. KW - Human geography. KW - Geoecology KW - Environmental protection KW - Physical geology KW - social science integration opportunities and challenges KW - water managing KW - social ecological systems KW - status of integration KW - humanity and the biosphere (mahb) KW - representing human individuals KW - environmental problem solving KW - human sustainability KW - livelihoods KW - poverty and conservation KW - resouce challenges and conflicts KW - emerging infectious diseases KW - land degradation and desertification KW - risk governance research KW - science during crisis KW - facilitating social science integration KW - land change research and modeling KW - solving sustainability challenges KW - natural resource social science integration KW - the social-ecological system framework KW - climate change and society KW - Decision-making KW - Socio-ecological system UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:38700874 AB - In this edited open access book leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration opportunities and challenges. This book explores the growing concern of how best to achieve effective integration of the social science disciplines as a means for furthering natural resource social science and environmental problem solving. The chapters provide an overview of the history, vision, advances, examples, and methods that could lead to integration. The quest for integration among the social sciences is not new. Some argue that the social sciences have lagged in their advancements and contributions to society due to their inability to address integration related issues. Integration merits debate for a number of reasons. First, natural resource issues are complex and are affected by multiple proximate driving social factors. Single disciplinary studies focused at one level are unlikely to provide explanations that represent this complexity and are limited in their ability to inform policy recommendations. Complex problems are best explored across disciplines that examine social-ecological phenomenon from different scales. Second, multi-disciplinary initiatives such as those with physical and biological scientists are necessary to understand the scope of the social sciences. Too frequently there is a belief that one social scientist on a multi-disciplinary team provides adequate social science representation. Third, more complete models of human behavior will be achieved through a synthesis of diverse social science perspectives. ER -