Some like it complex: building a common multidisciplinarity background from local experiences within the South-Mediterranean environmental research communities

IF 2.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Mehdi Saqalli, H. Chakroun, G. Mahé, Carla Khater, Laurent Drapeau, J. Feniamos, Sébastien Cartier, Z.-L. Chaabane, Jean Luc Probst, M. Saenz
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This article addresses the difficulty of introducing and establishing multidisciplinarity in environmental research within and among the South-Mediterranean environmental research national communities. Moreover, this work attends to assess the internal and external structural factors treating such complex issues in rural, urban, and peri-urban contexts as well as the connections and dependencies of these factors. Throughout a series of programs, projects, and actions that involved scientists and scholars from Algeria, France, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia, some common patterns can be observed despite notable differences in environmental and political contexts. Thus, the main common issues involve funding matters (budget reductions and less versatility), administrative and social hierarchy, relatively small connections with public services and community representatives, and finally the reluctance shown by many researchers to make data available for the community. Nevertheless, the fact that national and international (Arabic and French speaking sphere) researcher's communities have progressively built mutual knowledge thanks to different collaborations is a major achievement, sustaining multidisciplinarity in environmental research. Indeed, this allowed the elaboration of sustainability metrics, demarches, and procedures for assessing environmentally and socioeconomically complex issues.
有些人认为它很复杂:从南地中海环境研究界的当地经验中建立一个共同的多学科背景
本文讨论了在南地中海环境研究国家团体内部和之间引入和建立多学科环境研究的困难。此外,本工作旨在评估在农村、城市和城郊环境中处理此类复杂问题的内部和外部结构因素,以及这些因素之间的联系和依赖关系。在阿尔及利亚、法国、黎巴嫩、摩洛哥和突尼斯的科学家和学者参与的一系列计划、项目和行动中,尽管环境和政治背景存在显著差异,但仍可以观察到一些共同的模式。因此,主要的共同问题包括经费问题(预算减少和多样性减少)、行政和社会等级制度、与公共服务和社区代表的联系相对较少、以及许多研究人员不愿向社区提供数据。然而,由于不同的合作,国家和国际(阿拉伯语和法语领域)研究人员社区已经逐步建立了相互知识,这是一项重大成就,维持了环境研究的多学科性。事实上,这使得可持续性指标、准则和评估环境和社会经济复杂问题的程序得以细化。
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