Towards the integration of social, economic and ecological knowledge

Clive Spash

SRE-Disc from Institute for Multilevel Governance and Development, Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Abstract: Integration of knowledge has become a contentious issue in an age where increasing specialisation creates boundaries and division. Yet, there is an identifiable need for integration across social, ecological and economic understandings if we are to address ever more threatening crises and alarming potential scenarios. This paper relates to the work of K. William Kapp and in so doing raises questions about how integration might be achieved. A core idea that arises is the role of common denominator concepts.

Keywords: Integration; social ecological economics; philosophy of science; epistemology; K. William Kapp; analogy; unity of science; interdisciplinarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 A13 B Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2012
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-knm and nep-pke
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www-sre.wu.ac.at/sre-disc/sre-disc-2012_04.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Chapter: Towards the Integration of Social, Economic and Ecological Knowledge (2012)
Working Paper: Towards the integration of social, economic and ecological knowledge (2012)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wiw:wiwsre:sre-disc-2012_04

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in SRE-Disc from Institute for Multilevel Governance and Development, Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Gunther Maier ().