Enhancing communication & collaboration in interdisciplinary research / Editors, Michael O'Rourke, Michigan State University, Stephen Crowley, Boise State University, Sanford D. Eigenbrode, University of Idaho, J. D. Wulfhorst, University of Idaho.

Contents
1. Introduction
2. Communication and Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Research

Part I Theory
3. Communicating Complex Concepts
4. Training the Next Generation of Transdisciplinarians
5. Beyond Common Ground: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Interdisciplinary Communication and Collaboration
6. Interdisciplinarity, Communication, and the Limits of Knowledge

Part II Case Studies
7. Rising to the Synthesis Challenge in Large-Program Interdisciplinary Science: The QUEST Experience
8. Enhancing Interdisciplinary Communication: Collaborative Engaged Research on Food Systems for Health and Well-Being
9. Discourse Communities, Disconnects, and Digital Media: The Case of Relocalizing Economies for Sustainable Agriculture and Energy Systems
10. Conceptual Barriers to Interdisciplinary Communication: When Does Ambiguity Matter?

Part III Tools
11. Seeing Through the Eyes of Collaborators: Using Toolbox Workshops to Enhance Cross-Disciplinary Communcations
12. Integration of Frameworks and Theories Across Disciplines for Effective Cross-Disciplinary Communication
13. Modeling as a Tool for Cross-Disciplinary Communication in Solving Environmental Problems

Part IV Contexts
14. Interdisciplinarity as a Design Problem: Toward Mutual Intelligibility Among Acedemic Disciplines in the American Research University
15. Defining 21st Century Land-Grant Universities Through Cross-Disciplinary Research
16. Institutionalizing Interdisciplinary Graduate Education
17. Supporting Interdisciplinary Collaboration: The Role of the Institution

Part V Conclusion
18. From Toolbox to Big Science Project: A Bold Proposal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.