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Conservation Laws and Interactionist Dualism [PDF]
, 2016 The Exclusion Argument for physicalism maintains that since (1) every physical effect has a sufficient physical cause, and (2) cases of causal overdetermination are rare, it follows that if (3) mental events cause physical events as frequently ...
White, Ben
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Selling Conservation? Scientific Legitimacy and the Commodification of Conservation Tourism
Ecology and Society, 2009 Conservation tourism is a rapidly growing subsector of ecotourism that engages paying volunteers as active participants in conservation projects. Once the preserve of charities, the sector now hosts a proliferation of private companies seeking to make ...
Jenny A. Cousins +2 more
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Assessing critical population thresholds under periodic disturbances
Ecosphere, 2023 Population responses to repeated environmental or anthropogenic disturbances depend on complicated interactions between the disturbance regime, population structure, and differential stage susceptibility.
Azmy S. Ackleh +3 more
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Democratizing conservation science and practice
Ecology and Society, 2018 INTRODUCTION Navigating the tightly linked problems of ecological sustainability and social justice is the central challenge facing humanity this century (Raworth 2012, Dearing et al. 2014).
Anne K. Salomon +5 more
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New Hope for the Oceans: Engaging Faith-Based Communities in Marine Conservation [PDF]
, 2017 Science alone cannot protect the oceans and their biological diversity. Whereas, scientists can identify problems and empirical steps toward their resolution, support for research, problem solving, and implementation of solutions must come from societal ...
Schaefer, Jame
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Animal WelfareThe use of camera traps in wildlife conservation and ecological research is a popular method of data capture due in large part to the perceived low interference levels for the animals being studied.
Emeline Nogues +2 more
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Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science – A retrospection: 1958 to 2018
Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 2019 In 2018, Koedoe celebrated an unbroken publication record of 60 years. From uncertain beginnings in 1958, it is now a mature and important internationally recognised scientific journal focussing on conservation and science in national parks in South ...
Jane Carruthers, Llewellyn C. Foxcroft
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What Is Conservation Science? [PDF]
BioScience, 2012 In 1985, Michael Soule asked, “What is conservation biology?” We revisit this question more than 25 years later and offer a revised set of core principles in light of the changed global context for conservation. Most notably, scientists now widely acknowledge that we live in a world dominated by humans, and therefore, the scientific underpinnings of ...
Peter Kareiva, Michelle Marvier
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Next steps in dismantling discrimination: Lessons from ecology and conservation science
Conservation Letters, 2020 Ecology, conservation, and other scientific disciplines have histories built on the oppression of marginalized groups of people. Modern day discrimination continues in these fields and there is renewed interest in dismantling these system of oppression ...
Aadita Chaudhury, S. Colla
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Intersecting Social Science and Conservation
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 There is a growing consensus that current conservation strategies are unable to cope with the acceleration of human-caused environmental degradation. The philosophies that underpin and shape traditional conservation initiatives have begun to shift toward
Thomas Sanborn, Julia Jung
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