Integrative

1. An approach which cuts across and interrelates many dimensions (e.g. as social, economic, political, technological, psychological, and anthropological). Such approaches exist in connection with forecasting, planning, decision-making and education, for example.

2. The facilitation of a process of integration. A distinction may be made in this connection between integrated and integrative, with the former implying an achieved, completed, or predefined degree of integration within an established framework, whilst the latter implies the facilitation of a process whose scope and nature has not been predetermined within any framework and remains essentially open-ended.