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| Risk governance framework |
There are many environmental
challenges which are threatening ecosystem and global biodiversity. Environmental
issue is an interdisciplinary topic which has complex interaction between human
with nature system. It has substantive uncertainty and strategic-institutional
uncertainty among the stakeholders. Scientific research is required to manage
risk of the uncertainties. Scientists have to collaborate in interdisciplinary
research to solve wicked environmental problems. Interdisciplinary research
generally refers to the process of coordination, collaboration, or
investigation by researchers are combined into a public issue with sharing, invention,
and knowledge mix between disciplines.
The social sciences research
produces strong output that contributes to environmental studies. Social
scientists are studying humans in some form or another, this output is required
to produce various kinds of socially robust knowledge to address environmental
issues. Consequently, it creates potential for knowledge transfer and
scalability, praxis planning and policy-making bridges to implement solution
for the problems. Scientific research on societal environmental issues requires
a full collaborative role of social scientists.
