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- Title
Typology of scientific reflections needed for sustainability science development.
- Authors
Salas-Zapata, Walter; Rios-Osorio, Leonardo; Trouchon-Osorio, Alba
- Abstract
Sustainability science is at an early stage of development. Among many other obstacles, there are two prominent issues hindering its advance. There is both a lack of a set of principles for knowledge construction, and a need to implement research to solve real problems. This paper proposes a typology of scientific reflections for meeting these two challenges and contributing to sustainability science development. This typology is made up of four kinds of reflection: practical, instrumental-methodological, theoretical-conceptual, and onto-epistemological. Each kind of reflection is based on a different type of question and gives shape to its respective type of research.
- Subjects
SUSTAINABILITY; THEORETICAL plate number; TOPOLOGY; SUSTAINABLE development; MANAGEMENT science; STANDARDS
- Publication
Sustainability Science, 2013, Vol 8, Issue 4, p607
- ISSN
1862-4065
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11625-012-0183-3