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Editor

• Haller, Tobias [Browse]
• Haller, Tobias [Browse]
• Zingerli, Claudia [Browse]
• Zingerli, Claudia [Browse]

Funder

• Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften [Browse]
• Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften [Browse]

Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften [Browse]

Series

• Kultur und Soziale Praxis [More in this series]
• Kultur und soziale Praxis

Biographical/​Historical note

• Tobias Haller (Prof. Dr.), born 1965, is a professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, Switzerland, with a focus on economic, ecological, and political anthropology.
• Claudia Zingerli (PhD), born 1973, is a scientific collaborator at the Swiss National Science Foundation and freelancer in diverse activities dealing with knowledge brokerage and the co-creation of knowledge in science-policy interfaces.

Summary note

• Intercultural, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research interfaces confront researchers with considerable challenges. Towards Shared Research portrays how scholars from different disciplinary and geographical origins and at various academic career stages strive for a more inclusive and better understanding of knowledge about African environments.The book is addressed to researchers, facilitators, and policy-makers to make a case for participatory and integrative approaches resulting in systemic and co-created analyses.
• Besprochen in:https://bkw.hypotheses.org, 07.10.2020, Kristin Oswald

Funding information

funded by Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften

Rights and reproductions note

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license:

Language note

In English.

Contents

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Foreword 9 1. Towards collaborative and integrative research in African environments 11 2. Soil classifications 25 3. Action research and reverse thinking for anti-desertification methods 47 4. Energy and the environment in Sub-Saharan Africa 91 5. Fishing for food and food for fish 125 6. Conclusion 167 Authors 181

Other title(s)

Haller/Zingerli (eds.), Towards Shared Research Participatory and Integrative Approaches in Researching African Environments

ISBN

• 9783839451502
• 3839451507

OCLC

1158151857

Doi

10.14361/9783839451502

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