Interdisciplinarity as an Emergent Property: The Research Project “CINTERA” and the Study of Marine Eutrophication

Jennifer Bailey, Murat Van Ardelan, Klaudia L. Hernández, Humberto E. González, José Luis Iriarte, Lasse Mork Olsen, Hugo Salgado and Rachel Tiller
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Jennifer Bailey: Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Murat Van Ardelan: Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Klaudia L. Hernández: Centro de Investigaciones Marinas Quintay CIMARQ, Facultad de Ecologia y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Andres Bello, 2340000 Valparaiso, Chile
Humberto E. González: Programa de Financiamiento Basal, COPAS Sur Austral, 4030000 Concepción, Chile
José Luis Iriarte: Programa de Financiamiento Basal, COPAS Sur Austral, 4030000 Concepción, Chile
Lasse Mork Olsen: Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Hugo Salgado: Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Research Nucleus on Environmental and Resource Economics (NENRE), Universidad de Talca, 2 Norte 685 Talca, Chile
Rachel Tiller: SINTEF, Aquaculture and Fisheries, P.O. Box 4760 Sluppen, NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway

Sustainability, 2015, vol. 7, issue 7, 1-22

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: multidisciplinary; interdisciplinary; transdisciplinary; eutrophication; salmon aquaculture; Chile; Norway; fjord ecosystems; planktonic communities; adaptive capacity; research project (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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