Interdisciplinarity and Sustainable Development: Policy Implications

Beat Bürgenmeier

Chapter 3 in Sustainability Analysis, 2012, pp 52-68 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Sustainable Development; Political Process; Market Failure; Imperfect Competition; Social Injustice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230362437_4

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