Being interdisciplinary: adventures in urban science and beyond./

In Being Interdisciplinary, Alan Wilson draws on five decades as a leading figure in urban science to set out a systems approach to interdisciplinarity for those conducting research in this and other fields. He argues that most research is interdisciplinary at base, and that a systems perspective is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, Alan
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : UCL Press, 2022.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I, Interdisciplinary Research: A systems Approach. 1. Interdisciplinary research ; 2. Being interdisciplinary
  • Part II, Doing Interdisciplinary Research. 3. How to start ; 4. Establishing a research base-1: system models ; 5. Establishing a research base-2: data ; 6. Doing the research: different kinds of problem solving
  • Part III, Tricks of the trade. 7. Adding to the toolkit: explorations ; 8. Adding to the toolkit-2: more on superconcepts
  • Part IV, Managing and Organising Research. 9. Managing research, managing ourselves ; 10. Organising research.