The need is urgent to build capacity in the environmental community, and the interdisciplinary approach is one of the most promising avenues to accomplish this. The environmental studies and sciences program movement can ably lead this effort. Based on a workshop at the second annual meeting of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) in 2010, we look at barriers to interdi...

In this paper, I critically examine a number of notions about interdisciplinaryresearch approaches to the challenges posed by the world today. I juxtapose thiscritique with a discussion of interdisciplinary developments in Pacific studies, rais-ing questions as to how deeper dialogues between academic disciplines and theworldviews of Pacific Islanders may be reached. While inter...

In this paper, I critically examine a number of notions about interdisciplinaryresearch approaches to the challenges posed by the world today. I juxtapose thiscritique with a discussion of interdisciplinary developments in Pacific studies, rais-ing questions as to how deeper dialogues between academic disciplines and theworldviews of Pacific Islanders may be reached. While inter...

The purpose of the study is to compare the quality of life (QoL) of mastectomised patients for cancer, who subsequently chose or not breast reconstruction, using the Short Form 36 (SF-36) Health Survey. The study was carried out during October 2014 May 2015, on two groups: 23 patients with breast reconstruction, assisted at the University Hospital of Bucharest, compared with 27 patients without...

Interdisciplinarity is an advocacy of multiple disciplines, not the elimination curricular subjects, as one might mistakenly infer. In other words, a solid disciplinary base prerequisite for development interdisciplinary projects. At same time, disciplines are historical products scientific development, being epistemological tools practice and political institutional arrangements control knowle...