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Environmental Research and Governance: Institutional Problems of Bridging Knowledge Divides and Communicating Science

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The discussion of bridging or linking science and practice, science and the public, science and policy, or science and society for solving environmental problems in times of crises indicates the necessity of improving environmental governance. New forms of knowledge integration within and between the practices of production, dissemination and application of scientific knowledge develop through inter- and transdisciplinary environmental research. The practices of knowledge integration discussed in this chapter include the bridging of knowledge divides between science and the practices of environmental governance as a part of the broader process of transdisciplinary knowledge production and utilisation.

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Bruckmeier, K. (2019). Environmental Research and Governance: Institutional Problems of Bridging Knowledge Divides and Communicating Science. In: Global Environmental Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98110-9_5

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