Colleges and universities have been devoted since the 19th century to liberal education, which assumes and promotes the intellectual autonomy of human minds, including respect for rational collaboration, disciplinary methodologies, and rigorous research.
Via a cross-disciplinary methodology approach, the various environmental and societal dimensions of such a technology are evaluated.
It briefly introduces a few contemporary cross-disciplinary methodologies in the overlap of physics, computational and life sciences, such as agent-based models, dynamical systems, analysis of order/disorder phase transitions, information dynamics and information thermodynamics, guided self-organization and complex networks.
We conclude with a call for focused research based on multi-disciplinary methodologies that uses a social-ecological systems approach to more effectively evaluate the synergies and trade-offs between poverty alleviation, sustainable food production, and ecological management strategies.
Unfortunately, the reader is also left with no sense of Bawer's methodology, disciplinary background or intellectual formation.
Ninety four papers were reviewed for topic, author's institution, disciplinary perspective, geographical focus, methodology and funding.
Very few disciplinary conceptual frameworks or methodologies contribute to producing knowledge on work organisation in livestock farms, taking production processes into account.
Recognizing that many pathways overlap in both their methodologies and disciplinary approaches, we encouraged the first set of reviewers to be liberal in their application of codes and inclusion or exclusion of citations that they deemed relevant to the eight categories.
Previous research has examined psychological, health and social aspects associated with underground spaces but mainly employing relatively mono-disciplinary approaches and methodologies, many times in a non-systematic way.
Research which addresses these issues requires an intersectoral approach, involving trans-disciplinary teams and methodologies.
