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01-03-2008 | Editorial

Transdisciplinarity in EcoHealth: Status and Future Prospects

Authors: Bruce Wilcox, Christoph Kueffer

Published in: EcoHealth | Issue 1/2008

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As EcoHealth begins a fifth year of publication with this issue, it is a good time to reflect on our progress toward our transdisciplinary mission. The founding editors described transdisciplinarity as the “spirit” behind the journal in our inaugural issue (Wilcox et al., 2004a, b). Other arguments, ideas, and challenges relevant to our transdisciplinary mission at the intersection between the ecological and health sciences were expressed in that opening editorial, some of which are worth paraphrasing here. …

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Title: Transdisciplinarity in EcoHealth: Status and Future Prospects
Authors: Bruce Wilcox
Christoph Kueffer
Publication date: 01-03-2008
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: EcoHealth / Issue 1/2008
Print ISSN: 1612-9202
Electronic ISSN: 1612-9210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-008-0161-5

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