This paper examines the integration, from 1978 to 2002, of six social scientists in five Australian natural resource management agencies: CSIRO Australia, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the Murray Darling Basin Commission, the Western Australian Social Impact Unit, and the Queensland Social Impact Assessment Unit. All but one of the social scientists in the study occupied the first formal social science position in the respective agency. The organisational arrangements for integration, the roles of the social scientists and achievements (...) of social science programs in those agencies illustrate a number of integration approaches and insights for effectively integrating social and natural science. Insights emanating from this research will be useful to inform future natural resource management that avoids integration failures. This paper illustrates both significant impediments to integration in practice and positive examples of integrated multidisciplinary approaches in natural resource management. (shrink)

The following remarks are intended to show that some of Freudenthal's recent criticisms of Bunge'sFoundations of Physics are wide of the mark. Freudenthal sets his criticisms of detail in a framework of some general considerations of the role played by axiomatic theories in the foundations of physics. In particular, he considers the notion of the objects of an axiomatic theory, the relation of an axiomatic theory to reality, and the notion of the transformation group of a theory. These topics are (...) considered below. (shrink)