Abstract
The social sciences have made significant contributions to environmental studies. These will be enhanced to the extent that more sustained transdisciplinary practices are developed. The paper argues that in their environmental relations with the natural sciences, the social sciences fit several different models. These are categorized as enlightened disciplinarity, the promotion of scientific literacy, risk communication, auxiliary roles, the questioning of natural-science assumptions, primary producers, and multistakeholder partnerships. Deeper cooperation is likely to be a result of problem-solving in relation to curricula development, recognition of the complex-systems character of social-ecological enquiry, acceptance of methodological diversity, the generation of integrated socio-economic and ecological data-sets, and spread of a realist cosmopolitan ethic.
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