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Integrative knowledge and transdisciplinarity project - index to notes and commentaries

1. Significance of Integrative Knowledge Project

1.1 Significance: intent

1.2 Significance: obstacles to an interdisciplinary focus

1.3 Significance: consequence for approaches to societal problems

1.4 Significance: previous, parallel or related initiatives

2. Method

2.1 Method: identification and guidelines

2.2 Method: approaches to the art of disagreement

2.3 Method: subtler forms of disagreement

2.4 Method: constraints on patterning disagreement

3. Comments

3.1 Comments: integrative concepts

3.2 Comments: patterning disagreement

3.3 Comments: transdisciplinarity and its articulation

3.4 Comments: systems of categories distinguishing cultural emphases