Quantitative, qualitative and mixed approaches in environmental sciences with emphasis on interdisciplinarity

Document Type : Original Article

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Master student in Environmental Planning, University of Tehran

Abstract

In the late twentieth century, science lost its tree structure and moved to a grid structure. The problem of globalization and information technology caused science to become local-global, and the great science replaced the small science and its growth took on an exponential (power) state, and finally science turned to the problem and with a fundamental and gradual change in ontology. , Epistemology and methodology emerged between interdisciplinarity (Ferasatkhah, 2011). Environmental science, with its contextualism and problem-oriented nature, is an interdisciplinary field that increasingly requires being equipped with appropriate tools in the field of research. In this article, an attempt has been made to review the sources through the method of libraries on the subject of interdisciplinarity of environmental sciences and to approach the quantitative, qualitative and combined research approaches in a comparative manner, albeit briefly.

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