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Ecology and the social sciences
1 The urgency and complexity of current environmental problems require ecologists to engage in cross-disciplinary research with social scientists, among others. 2 This study explores what ecologists expect from such cross-disciplinary engagements, through a review of editorial statements in key ecological journals and an empirical survey of ecologists working with social scientists. 3 Ecologists were found to have different perspectives on collaborating with social scientists depending upon whether they had an instrumental or non-instrumental outlook on the role of social sciences. 4 Ecologists are also pursuing other approaches to incorporate human dimensions into their work, including engaging end-users and stakeholders in their research; and enlarging the scope of ecology to include human subjects/objects in their research focus. 5 Synthesis and …
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| The changing face of applied ecology | primary |
| Ecology, politics and policy | secondary |