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Metrics in biodiversity conservation and the value-free ideal
This paper examines one aspect of the legacy of the Value-Free Ideal in conservation science: the view that measurements and metrics are value-free...
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Trophy Hunting and Conservation
This chapter investigates conservation claims and issues as they pertain to hunting. After a description of the major regulations governing trophy...
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Climate Change and Nature Conservation
After briefly reconstructing how and when anthropogenic climate change awareness and nature conservation emerged in Western societies (section...
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Climate Change and Nature Conservation
After briefly reconstructing how and when anthropogenic climate change awareness and nature conservation emerged in Western societies (section...
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The epistemological and conservation value of biological specimens
Natural history specimens were collected for diverse reasons, but modern, and likely future, uses often diverge from why they were collected. For...
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Science and values in the biodiversity-ecosystem function debate
This paper explores interactions between ecological science and conservation values in the biodiversity-ecosystem function (BEF) debate of the...
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Improving conservation outcomes in agricultural landscapes: farmer perceptions of native vegetation on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
With agriculture the primary driver of biodiversity loss, farmers are increasingly expected to produce environmental outcomes and protect...
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Exploring the socio-ecology of science: the case of coral reefs
In this paper I use data from interviews conducted with coral scientists to examine the socio-ecological dimensions of science, i.e. how science...
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The foucauldian approach to conservation: pitfalls and genuine promises
Conservation biology is a branch of ecology devoted to conserving biodiversity. Because this discipline is based on the assumption that knowledge...
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No Such Thing as Containment? Gene Drives for Conservation and the (Im)possibility of an Island
This article explores the use of islands as tools of geographical and intellectual containment - or what we call “islanding” - in the scientific and...
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Collaborative research as boundary work: learning between rice growers and conservation professionals to support habitat conservation on private lands
Multi-stakeholder initiatives for biodiversity conservation on working landscapes often necessitate strategies to facilitate learning in order to...
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How to be a powers theorist about functional laws, conservation laws and symmetries
This paper defends an account of the laws of nature in terms of irreducibly modal properties (aka powers ) from the threat posed by functional laws,...
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Mainstream Science and African Worldview: A Plea for Diversity
Some notable scholars argue that traditional African worldview is a backward-looking belief system that proves to be irreconcilable with mainstream...
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The Modeling Relation in Science
The purpose of science is to establish modeling relations between inferential entailments in formal systems and causal entailments in natural...
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Ambivalence in Environmental Care: Marine Care Ethics and More-Than-Human Relations in the Conservation of Seagrass Posidonia oceanica
Posidonia oceanica is an endemic seagrass from the mediterranean that provides key ecosystem services. A protected species, its presence is...
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The two ideals sha** the content of modern science
Much has been written over the years regarding the norms, values, and ideals of modern science—in a word, what is expected of science and scientists....
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The adoption of conservation practices in the Corn Belt: the role of one formal farmer network, Practical Farmers of Iowa
Substantial evidence has shown that involvement in peer-to-peer farming networks influences whether a farmer decides to try a new practice. Formally...
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Gatekee** should be conserved in the open science era
The elimination of gatekeepers for scientific publication has been represented as a means to promote the core moral values of open science, including...
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Science, Values, and the New Demarcation Problem
In recent years, many philosophers of science have rejected the “value-free ideal” for science, arguing that non-epistemic values have a legitimate...
