Knowledge Integration (n). The social practice of synthesizing diverse knowledges across lines of cultural and geographic difference.
The Knowledge Integration Project explores the politics of environmental knowledge through a study of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge collaboration across the Américas.
Through an ethnographic study of interdisciplinary collaboration, this project explores the epistemic geographies of environmental change. Specifically, we focus on how expert knowledge about climate change and the environment—particularly the Amazon rainforest of Brazil—is co-produced and stitched together across disciplinary cultures, national cultures, and spatial scales.
Why? A key sustainability challenge is the need for more collaborative, transdisciplinary, and transformative scientific explanations about our changing environments. This project tackles an important (and very human) piece of that puzzle: knowledge integration.