Research Catalog

Title

Making and moving knowledge : interdisciplinary and community-based research in a world on the edge / edited by John Sutton Lutz and Barbara Neis.

Publication

Montreal ; Ithaca, NY : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Lutz, John S. (John Sutton), 1959-
• Neis, Barbara, 1952-

Description

xiv, 338 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

A wide-ranging examination of how academic and community research translates into knowledge and how knowledge transforms into wisdom in some circumstances stalling in others.

Alternative Title

Interdisciplinary and community-based research in a world on the edge

Subject

• Knowledge, Sociology of
• Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
• Traditional ecological knowledge
• Knowledge management
• Research
• Sociologie de la connaissance
• Interdisciplinarité
• Savoirs écologiques traditionnels
• Gestion des connaissances
• Knowledge Management

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-328) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Forword / Rosemary Ommer -- Introduction / John Sutton Lutz, Barbara Neis -- Knowledge, uncertainty, and wisdom / Rosemary E. Ommer, Harold Coward, Christopher C. Parrish -- "Ebb and flow": transmitting environmental knowledge in a contemporary aboriginal community / Nancy J. Turner ... [et al.] -- Students as community participants: knowledge through engagement in the costal context / Carol E. Harris, Sandra L. Umpleby -- The evolving use of knowledge sources in fisheries assessment / David C. Schneider, Erin Alcock, Danny Ings -- Opening the black box: methods, procedures, and challenges in the historical reconstruction of marine social-ecological systems / Grant Murray ... [et al.] -- Data fouling in Newfoundland's marine fisheries / Kaija I. Metuzals ... [et al.] -- Knowledge flows around youth: what do they "know" about human and community health? / Anne Marshall ... [et al.] -- Promoting, blocking, and diverting the flow of knowledge: four case studies from Newfoundland and Labrador / R. John Gibson ... [et al.] -- Knowledge flows, conservation values, and municipal wetlands stewardship / Brian McLaren ... [et al.] -- Knowledge movement in response to costal British Columbia oil and gas development: past, present, and future / Christopher R. Barnes ... [et al.] -- The process of large-scale interdisciplinary science: a reflexive study / Peter Trnka -- Circularizing knowledge flows: institutional structures, policies, and practices for community-university collaborations / Kelly Vodden, Kelly Bannister -- Conclusion: miles to go / Barbara Neis, John Sutton Lutz.

ISBN

• 9780773533738 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0773533737 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 9780773533936 (paper)
• 0773533931 (paper)

OCLC

• 183260226
• SCSB-10586713

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library