“…IGBP, 2006;Reid et al, 2010), crucial questions about how to actually achieve such an articulation will arise, concerning both how to conceive of the investigative process involving multiple disciplines and how to consider the different logical, epistemological, ontological and political perspectives in relation to the problem of changing Earth System (e.g. Alimonda, 2002;Alves, 2008;Geoghegan et al, 1998;Hick et al, 2010;Liverman & Cuesta, 2008;Moraes, 2005;Oliveira Filho, 1976;Schor, 2008;Shackley et al, 1998). Although these questions have not impeded close collaborative work between natural and social scientists (e.g.…”