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Taibah University
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University of New South Wales Canberra
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Conservation and biodiversity | Environmental management | Environmental assessment and monitoring | Environment policy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 12-11-2021
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-05-2022
DOI: 10.1111/CONL.12888
Abstract: Conservation and environmental policies are increasingly criticized for marginalizing peoples, entities and practices. Typically overlooked, yet critical in their potential for marginalization and exclusion, are the assumptions that underlie a policy's classifications, categorizations and descriptions of reality. These ontological assumptions come to define which interventions are appropriate, or even possible, and for whom. We seek to illuminate the importance of ontology to policy‐making and implementation processes. We do so via an ontological analysis of selected elements of an international policy, the Convention on Biological Diversity, to show how language, logic, rights and responsibilities expressed and inferred within the policy could marginalize different entities and practices. The analysis demonstrates how a policy represents reality and thereby intervenes in the world, with consequences for alternative ontologies, peoples, and knowledges. To support ontological accountability, we offer a three‐stage conceptual framework to: deconstruct the language used in describing reality make sense of how language and logic entangle rights and responsibilities and enable transformation by becoming accountable to erse practices of reality. Enabling the coexistence and practice of multiple ontologies is not easy or simple, but it is fundamental for transforming to inclusive policy‐making, implementation, and self‐determination.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-09-2020
DOI: 10.1111/CONL.12767
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-12-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-01-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-04-2022
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.13875
Abstract: With the intention of securing industry‐free land and seascapes, protecting wilderness entered international policy as a formal target for the first time in the zero draft of the Post‐2020 Global Bio ersity Framework under the Convention on Biological Diversity. Given this increased prominence in international policy, it is timely to consider the extent to which the construct of wilderness supports global conservation objectives. We evaluated the construct by overlaying recently updated cumulative human pressure maps that offer a global‐scale delineation of industry‐free land as wilderness with maps of carbon stock, species richness, and ground travel time from urban centers. Wilderness areas took variable forms in relation to carbon stock, species richness, and proximity to urban centers, where 10% of wilderness areas represented high carbon and species richness, 20% low carbon and species richness, and 3% high levels of remoteness ( h), carbon, and species richness. Approximately 35% of all remaining wilderness in 2013 was accessible in h of travel time from urban centers. Although the construct of wilderness can be used to secure benefits in specific contexts, its application in conservation must account for contextual and social implications. The erse characterization of wilderness under a global environmental conservation lens shows that a nuanced framing and application of the construct is needed to improve understanding, communication, and retention of its variable forms as industry‐free places.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-12-2020
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.13632
Abstract: Understanding complex systems is essential to ensure their conservation and effective management. Models commonly support understanding of complex ecological systems and, by extension, their conservation. Modeling, however, is largely a social process constrained by in iduals’ mental models (i.e., a small‐scale internal model of how a part of the world works based on knowledge, experience, values, beliefs, and assumptions) and system complexity. To account for both system complexity and the ersity of knowledge of complex systems, we devised a novel way to develop a shared qualitative complex system model. We disaggregated a system (carbonate coral reefs) into smaller subsystem modules that each represented a functioning unit, about which an in idual is likely to have more comprehensive knowledge. This modular approach allowed us to elicit an in idual mental model of a defined subsystem for which the in iduals had a higher level of confidence in their knowledge of the relationships between variables. The challenge then was to bring these subsystem models together to form a complete, shared model of the entire system, which we attempted through 4 phases: develop the system framework and subsystem modules develop the in idual mental model elicitation methods elicit the mental models and identify and isolate differences for exploration and identify similarities to cocreate a shared qualitative model. The shared qualitative model provides opportunities to develop a quantitative model to understand and predict complex system change.
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1071/MF15329
Abstract: Declining water quality and ecological condition is a typical trend for rivers and streams worldwide as human demands for water resources increase. Managing these natural resources sustainably is a key responsibility of governments. Effective water management policies require information derived from long-term monitoring and evaluation. Biological monitoring and assessment are critical for management because bioassessment integrates the biological, physical and chemical features of a waterbody. Investment in nationally coordinated riverine bioassessment in Australia has almost ceased and the foci of management questions are on more localised assessments. However, rivers often span political and administrative boundaries, and their condition may be best protected and managed under national policies, supported by a coordinated national bioassessment framework. We argue that a nationally coordinated program for the bioassessment of riverine health is an essential element of sustainable management of a nation’s water resources. We outline new techniques and research needed to streamline current arrangements to meet present-day and emerging challenges for coordinating and integrating local, regional and national bioassessment activities. This paper draws on international experience in riverine bioassessment to identify attributes of successful broad-scale bioassessment programs and strategies needed to modernise freshwater bioassessment in Australia and re-establish national broad-scale focus.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-06-2014
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.12326
Abstract: Natural scientists are increasingly interested in social research because they recognize that conservation problems are commonly social problems. Interpreting social research, however, requires at least a basic understanding of the philosophical principles and theoretical assumptions of the discipline, which are embedded in the design of social research. Natural scientists who engage in social science but are unfamiliar with these principles and assumptions can misinterpret their results. We developed a guide to assist natural scientists in understanding the philosophical basis of social science to support the meaningful interpretation of social research outcomes. The 3 fundamental elements of research are ontology, what exists in the human world that researchers can acquire knowledge about epistemology, how knowledge is created and philosophical perspective, the philosophical orientation of the researcher that guides her or his action. Many elements of the guide also apply to the natural sciences. Natural scientists can use the guide to assist them in interpreting social science research to determine how the ontological position of the researcher can influence the nature of the research how the epistemological position can be used to support the legitimacy of different types of knowledge and how philosophical perspective can shape the researcher's choice of methods and affect interpretation, communication, and application of results. The use of this guide can also support and promote the effective integration of the natural and social sciences to generate more insightful and relevant conservation research outcomes.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-08-2019
DOI: 10.1002/PAN3.10043
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-07-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2017
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: 22-09-2021
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2016
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-05-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-03-2019
DOI: 10.1111/CONL.12642
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 20-11-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2017
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 26-12-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-11-2014
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.12408
Abstract: An opportunity represents an advantageous combination of circumstances that allows goals to be achieved. We reviewed the nature of opportunity and how it manifests in different subsystems (e.g., biophysical, social, political, economic) as conceptualized in other bodies of literature, including behavior, adoption, entrepreneur, public policy, and resilience literature. We then developed a multidisciplinary conceptualization of conservation opportunity. We identified 3 types of conservation opportunity: potential, actors remove barriers to problem solving by identifying the capabilities within the system that can be manipulated to create support for conservation action traction, actors identify windows of opportunity that arise from exogenous shocks, events, or changes that remove barriers to solving problems and existing, everything is in place for conservation action (i.e., no barriers exist) and an actor takes advantage of the existing circumstances to solve problems. Different leverage points characterize each type of opportunity. Thus, unique stages of opportunity identification or creation and exploitation exist: characterizing the system and defining problems identifying potential solutions assessing the feasibility of solutions identifying or creating opportunities and taking advantage of opportunities. These stages can be undertaken independently or as part of a situational analysis and typically comprise the first stage, but they can also be conducted iteratively throughout a conservation planning process. Four types of entrepreneur can be identified (business, policy, social, and conservation), each possessing attributes that enable them to identify or create opportunities and take advantage of them. We examined how different types of conservation opportunity manifest in a social-ecological system (the Great Barrier Reef) and how they can be taken advantage of. Our multidisciplinary conceptualization of conservation opportunity strengthens and legitimizes the concept.
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2020
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 12-03-2021
DOI: 10.3389/FMARS.2021.574158
Abstract: Developing solutions to the complex and uncertain problems facing marine and coastal social-ecological ecosystems requires new forms of knowledge production and integration. While progress has been made both in terms of successfully producing integrated marine research and connecting that knowledge to decision-makers, a number of significant challenges remain that prevent the routine development and implementation of successful integrated research practice. Based on our own experiences as social researchers working within interdisciplinary research teams, we contend that one of the main barriers to successful integrative marine research relates to understanding, and where possible reconciling, the different epistemologies that unpin how knowledge is created or discovered in different disciplines. We therefore aim to provide an accessible introduction to the concept of epistemology, with a focus on its importance and influence to integrated marine research practice. Specifically, we present and discuss five questions of research design that relate to epistemology in integrative research practices: (1) What is the object of study we seek to create knowledge about (2) how do we create knowledge (3) who accepts knowledge as ‘true’ and how? (4) how do we determine the epistemology underpinning marine science and (5) what are the implications of epistemology for applied integrative marine science? We demonstrate the application of each question through a hypothetical case study of marine restoration, focusing on coral transplanting. Finally, we offer readers a simple heuristic to guide them, irrespective of career stage or discipline, to understand and account for epistemology when participating in integrative marine research practices.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
Start Date: 07-2023
End Date: 06-2026
Amount: $359,810.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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