Designing social learning systems for integrating social sciences into policy processes: Some experiences of water managing

Abstract

Let me begin my introduction to this chapter with a short story. As a first year undergraduate, whilst browsing in my university library I came across a book on environmental politics. At the top of one of the chapters was a quote from a United Nations (UN) discussion some decades before about an ongoing policy conflict between two members of the UN. A delegate from another country, exasperated at the intractability of the situation, had stood up in the debate and shouted across the chamber to the two sparring representatives: ' Integrate damn you! Integrate! '. Not appreciating then the importance of maintaining references, I have since been unable to find either where this quote originated or the book it was in - despite many hopeful attempts.