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Introduction : the politics of engagement between biodiversity conservation and the social sciences

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: In scientific endeavour related to biodiversity conservation, the perspectives of the natural sciences have long been dominant. During the last several decades, however, social science research has steadily gained momentum.\nThe major achievement of the social sciences has been to investigate and emphasise the ‘human side’ of biodiversity conservation, ranging from local issues around social exclusion from protected areas and dependency of ‘local people’ on natural resources to more abstract issues of environmental governance and political ecology. But social science research is itself also a social process and its practices, assumptions and outcomes therefore deserve contin

Source: Digital Academic REpository of VU University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Authors: Büscher, Bram, Wolmer, William

Institutions: University of Pretoria, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Sussex

Language: English

Topic: Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: green

Funders: Carnegie Mellon University, National Research Foundation

OpenAlex ID: W2099076152

FWCI: 1.374

Cites: 60

Cited by: 49

Related to: 10