Integration and Implementation Sciences: Building a New Discipline

Integration and Implementation Sciences (I2S) started in around 2001 and the ideas underpinning it are continuing to develop.

The most recent ideas can be found in the Integration Insights series. There are also a number of published papers and chapters about I2S:

1. Bammer, G. (2005). ‘Integration and Implementation Sciences: Building a New Specialization’. Ecology and Society, 10, (2): 6, [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss2/art6/
2. Bammer, G. (2006). ‘Integration and Implementation Sciences: Building a New specialisation’. In, Perez, P. and Batten, D. (eds), Complex science for a complex world. Exploring human ecosystems with agents. ANU E-Press: Canberra, 95-107.
3. Kueffer, C., Hirsch Hadorn, G., Bammer, G., van Kerkhoff, L., Pohl, C. (2007). ‘Towards a publication culture in transdisciplinary research.’ GAIA, 16: 22-26.

The latest powerpoint presentation about I2S was presented at ETH-Zurich in May 2007.

Research Programs and Projects

I2S provides an important underpinning for two major research programs – the Drug Policy Modelling Program and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (website still being developed).

I2S ideas are also being used in the Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS) projects and in the National Cancer Institute. (2007). Greater Than the Sum: Systems Thinking in Tobacco Control. Tobacco Control Monograph No. 18., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, NIH Pub. No. 06-6085, April, Bethesda, MD, [online] URL: http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/18/index.html.