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The Political Salience of Animal Protection in the Netherlands (2012–2021) and Belgium (2010–2019): What do Dutch and Belgian Political Parties Pledge on Animal Welfare and Wildlife Conservation?
The Netherlands and Belgium are European Union (EU) states with a shared border and cultural similarities. Article 13 of the EU Treaty of Lisbon...
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Diversifying science: comparing the benefits of citizen science with the benefits of bringing more women into science
I compare two different arguments for the importance of bringing new voices into science: arguments for increasing the representation of women, and...
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Partisan science and the democratic legitimacy ideal
The democratic legitimacy ideal requires value judgments in science to be legitimised by democratic procedures in order for them to reflect the...
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COVID-19, other zoonotic diseases and wildlife conservation
Many experts have warned that environmental degradation is increasing the likelihood of future pandemics like COVID-19, as habitat loss and poaching...
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Reducing the Inadvertent Spread of Retracted Science: recommendations from the RISRS report
BackgroundRetraction is a mechanism for alerting readers to unreliable material and other problems in the published scientific and scholarly record....
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Diets, Diseases, and Discourse: Lessons from COVID-19 for Trade in Wildlife, Public Health, and Food Systems Reform
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light significant failures and fragilities in our food, health, and market systems. Concomitantly, it has...
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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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From the Social to the Global Turn in Latin American History of Science
This chapter examines the work done in Latin American history of science during the past few decades. A social turn that could be traced to the 1970s...
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Wildlife Ethics and Practice: Why We Need to Change the Way We Talk About ‘Invasive Species’
This article calls for an end to the use of the term ‘invasive species’, both in the scientific and public discourse on wildlife conservation. There...
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Loss of seasonal ranges reshapes transhumant adaptive capacity: Thirty-five years at the US Sheep Experiment Station
Transhumance is a form of extensive livestock production that involves seasonal movements among ecological zones or landscape types. Rangeland-based...
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Public Policy: The Defining Global Parameters of Society and Science
This Chapter asserts that the functionality of global networks, facilitated and promoted by innovations in information and communications technology,...
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Follow *the* science? On the marginal role of the social sciences in the COVID-19 pandemic
In this paper, we use the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe to address the question of what kind of knowledge we should incorporate into public...
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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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From the Social to the Global Turn in Latin American History of Science
This chapter examines the work done in Latin American history of science during the past few decades. A social turn that could be traced to the 1970s...
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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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Observing farm plots to increase attentiveness and cooperation with nature: a case study in Belgium
In intensive European agricultural areas, the control of weeds and wildlife within plots is of great importance. Yet, we can observe in many farming...
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Trophy Hunting Now
In this final chapter, we present the challenges that recent years and especially 2020–21 have presented in the context of trophy hunting. In Chapter...
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Guidelines for a Post-speciesist Epistemology in the Age of Anthropocene
This chapter proposes guidelines to start the construction of an alternative theoretical framework based on the notion of post-speciesism as a mark...