14ergent perplexity: In search of post-normal questions for community and agroecosystem health

Growing awareness of the linkages between socioeconomic, ecological and human community health across various spatial and temporal scales has uncovered contradictions and ambiguities in the concept of health. Furthermore, conventional modes of inquiry are limited in their ability to handle these dif...

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Published inSocial science & medicine (1982) Vol. 45; no. 11; p. 1741
Main Authors Waltner-Toews, David, Wall, Ellen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Pergamon Press Inc 01.12.1997
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Ecosystems
Health
Social sciences
Socioeconomic factors
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Summary:Growing awareness of the linkages between socioeconomic, ecological and human community health across various spatial and temporal scales has uncovered contradictions and ambiguities in the concept of health. Furthermore, conventional modes of inquiry are limited in their ability to handle these difficulties and may, indeed, reinforce them. Based on research into agroecosystems, and drawing on recent developments in our understanding of complex systems and what has been called post-normal science, a new type of question for health analysis is proposed.
ISSN:0277-9536
1873-5347