From Discipline to Inter-and Transdiscipline in the Environmental Academic Sector in Mexico

Abstract

In the present work we outline the history of environmental policy and institutions through a timeline, in which we observe the advances that Mexico has made in this area, some of them due to international situations. The response to these obligations requires the training of specialists in the subject, who will advance from a purely sectorial (disciplinary) vision through multidisciplinary work to a transversal (transdisciplinary) conception, at least on paper. However, this was not possible due to the priorities of the Mexican governments of  the  twentieth  century,  now  it  is  proposed  to move  towards  this  interdisciplinary  work  in  the environmental sector through a series of policies whose results are shown, through an exploratory deductive study.