Research on Natural Resources: The Quest for Integration Revisited

Abstract

The dysfunctional use of resources in modern societies arises from increasingly fragmented ways of understanding natural resources. Consequently, there have been repeated calls for integrative knowledge production, and various approaches to integration have been proposed, including such as interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary resource research and integrated resource management. The conceptual space proposed here can be applied as a tool for imagining and designing new approaches, methods, and research techniques toward a more reflexive understanding of integration-oriented research on natural resources.