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Four streams of infromation, data, and knowledges are brought together into an ecosystem typology for the Tiwi Islands. The Typology contains written descriptions and conceptual models for each ecosystem, cross‐reference to other classification schemes, and a map of ecosystem distributions. Abstract Effective ecosystem conservation for biodiversity and
Alys R. Young +13 more
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Abstract The complexity of sustainability challenges and the need for transformative change have prompted the exploration of novel approaches for knowledge co‐generation and decision‐making. This calls for integrative assessment methods that meaningfully include and represent diverse knowledge systems, capturing multiple values, needs and interests as ...
Ricardo Ismael Mata‐Páez +6 more
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RETRACTED: The Growing Tide of Antiscience Sentiment: A Global Concern
ABSTRACT The growing tide of antiscience sentiment represents a critical global challenge, with particularly visible manifestations in the United States. This viewpoint examines how the rejection of scientific consensus threatens academic institutions, public health, and technological progress worldwide.
Thorsten Rudroff
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ABSTRACT This article explores the persistence of race in biological anthropology, particularly in the context of ancestry estimation using the Fordisc software. Despite efforts to move away from race‐based typologies since the mid‐20th century, historical notions of race continue to shape scientific methods and technologies in anthropology. By tracing
Iris Clever, Lisette Jong
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African voices and their role in improving north–south collaborations for biodiversity conservation
Abstract While the dominance of policies from the Global North has shaped conservation practices, holistic decision‐making is urgently needed to incorporate more local voices, especially in Africa. Effective conservation strategies may be enhanced by incorporating the expertise and resources of the Global North alongside the knowledge, lived ...
Kudzai Shaun Mpakairi +10 more
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Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science conservation research
Abstract We investigated intimidation of conservation social scientists, which is ongoing and aimed at silencing or discrediting research findings. Although social scientists share with conservation biologists the desire to understand and address the biodiversity crisis, their analysis of structural power relations and contradictions in conservation is
Stasja Koot +16 more
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¿Publicar o perecer? El caso de las Ciencias Sociales y las Humanidades en Latinoamérica
Se busca conocer el comportamiento de las Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades en Latinoamérica respecto a la colaboración científica; se contrastan para ello las tendencias que registra Scopus (2003-2013) a través del análisis de Plume y Van Weijen (2014), y
Eduardo Aguado-López +1 more
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Essential skills for the training of conservation social scientists
Abstract Since 2000, the field of biodiversity conservation has been reckoning with the historical lack of effective engagement with the social sciences in parallel with rapid declines in biodiversity and escalating concerns regarding socioecological justice exacerbated by many common conservation practices.
Laura Thomas‐Walters +9 more
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A social network analysis of an epistemic community studying neoliberal conservation
Abstract Researchers typically operate in epistemic communities: groups that share common approaches to research agendas and sociopolitical action and define areas of debate. Although productive in their own spheres, a lack of understanding among these communities can undermine scientific progress. Thus, analyzing epistemic communities is important for
Brittany Bunce +5 more
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Abstract Recognition of the value of multidisciplinary research that bridges natural and social science perspectives has come with calls for conservation scientists to reflect critically on underlying assumptions and power relations involved in the production of knowledge and its application.
Marie‐Annick Moreau, Emily Woodhouse
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