Newing, Helen S. (2010) Interdisciplinary training in environmental conservation: definitions, progress and future directions. Environmental Conservation, 37 (4). pp. 410-418. ISSN 0376-8929. (doi:10.1017/S0376892910000743) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:28226)
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Abstract
The development of interdisciplinary approaches to
interdisciplinary training in undergraduate and postgraduate
This paper therefore examines interdisciplinary
conservation biology. The specific objectives are: (1) to
in conservation biology; (2) to examine the status
programmes in conservation biology; and (3) to
or other non-natural science content that should
term ‘interdisciplinarity’ has been used in relation to
content; (2) vocational skills training; (3) integrative
indication of disciplinary content; (4) the (variously
(5) interaction between different academic disciplines
divide). In terms of training, the natural sciences
academic programmes, but there now appears to be
previously. However the lack of consistency in the
Further debate about curriculum development in
the distinction between the different aspects of
them in its own right. Most degree programmes in
degrees either in the natural sciences or the social
both of these in depth is likely to be problematic.
?Correspondence: Dr Helen Newing Tel: + 44 1227 827034 Fax:
perspectives is increasingly important in a career
that, as a minimum, a primarily natural sciencebased
conservation should include: (1) an introduction to
basic training in social science methods, research
training, to the extent that it can be built into
problem-solving tasks that can be used in relation
constructed for social science-based environmental
in natural science perspectives. Postgraduate training
achieve in terms of disciplinary breadth; they can
supplementary training to allow students to increase
the issue of interdisciplinarity itself.
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