Collaboration Across Boundaries for Social-Ecological Systems Science
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Collaboration Across Boundaries for Social-Ecological Systems Science
Stephen G. Perz Editor
Collaboration Across Boundaries for Social-Ecological Systems Science Experiences Around the World
Editor Stephen G. Perz Department of Sociology and Criminology and Law University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA
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For those about to cross For those who salute the strangers For those who govern for sustainability
Preface
It was my turn to talk, but this would not be straightforward. I was in the country of my second language, but not everybody in the group spoke that language, so I resorted to my third tongue, which more of the visitors seemed to grasp. I hoped people would be able to follow along, especially since many were from nonacademic organizations like governmental agencies and nongovernmental organizations. But even the academics present weren’t from my discipline, sociology: they were mostly hydrologists and limnologists. My introduction thus amounted to a strange proposition for a meeting that at first glance seemed like an absurd exercise. Why was an academic talking to academics of other disciplines, people from nonacademic organizations, in another country, in a language not native to that country in the first place? What was all this for? The participants at that meeting had come together to better und
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