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| Provedor de dados: |
Ecology and Society
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| País: |
Canada
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| Título: |
Beyond Baselines: Rethinking Priorities for Ocean Conservation
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| Autores: |
Campbell, Lisa M; Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University; lisa.m.campbell@duke.edu
Gray, Noella J; Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University; noella.gray@duke.edu
Hazen, Elliott L; Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University; elliot.hazen@duke.edu
Shackeroff, Janna M; Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University; janna.shackeroff@duke.edu
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| Data: |
2009-02-11
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| Ano: |
2009
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| Palavras-chave: |
Baselines
Human–
Environment relations
Interdisciplinary research
Marine historical ecology
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| Resumo: |
In 1995, Daniel Pauly identified a "shifting baselines syndrome" (SBS). Pauly was concerned that scientists measure ecosystem change against their personal recollections of the past and, based on this decidedly short-term view, mismanage fish stocks because they tolerate gradual and incremental elimination of species and set inappropriate recovery goals. As a concept, SBS is simple to grasp and its logic is compelling. Much current work in marine historical ecology is rationalized in part as a means of combating SBS, and the term has also resonated outside of the academy with environmental advocacy groups. Although we recognize both conceptual and operational merit in SBS, we believe that the ultimate impact of SBS on ocean management will be limited by some underlying and interrelated problematic assumptions about ecology and human–environment relations, and the prescriptions that these assumptions support. In this paper, we trace both assumptions and prescriptions through key works in the SBS literature and interrogate them via ecological and social science theory and research. We argue that an expanded discussion of SBS is needed, one that engages a broader range of social scientists, ecologists, and resource users, and that explicitly recognizes the value judgments inherent in deciding both what past ecosystems looked like and whether or not and how we might reconstruct them.
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| Tipo: |
Peer-Reviewed Insight
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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vol14/iss1/art14/
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| Editor: |
Resilience Alliance
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| Formato: |
text/html application/pdf
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| Fonte: |
Ecology and Society; Vol. 14, No. 1 (2009)
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