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Multi- and interdisciplinary research—Problems of initiation, control, integration and reward

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This paper reviews some of the difficulties of initiating and completing interdisciplinary research involving both bio-physical and social systems. Drawing on the author's experience as project director of a large interdisciplinary project concerned with man's effects on Lake Tahoe, it includes a structural analysis of the organization of universities which has the effect of inhibiting interdisciplinary research. Specific suggestions for the conduct and design of such projects are made. The political implications of recent changes in national science policy are also reviewed.

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  1. Department of Sociology and Division of Environmental Studies, University of California, Davis, California

    James McEvoy III

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The author wishes to acknowledge the valuable assistance of Prof. Robert Johnston, Division of Environmental Studies, U. C. Davis.

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McEvoy, J. Multi- and interdisciplinary research—Problems of initiation, control, integration and reward. Policy Sci 3, 201–208 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01460093

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