246 results on '"Peterson, Tarla"'
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202. A TALE OF TWO SPECIES: HABITAT CONSERVATION PLANS AS BOUNDED CONFLICT
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PETERSON, M. NILS, ALLISON, STACEY A., PETERSON, MARKUS J., PETERSON, TARLA RAI, and LOPEZ, ROEL R.
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Abstract: Worldwide human population expansion and rising standards of living place increasing pressure on wildlife populations and their habitats. Conflict regarding conservation and preservation of endangered species is among the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Endangered species management on private lands magnifies the problems encountered by natural resource policy-makers and managers. Given that conservation of endangered species increasingly depends on securing cooperation of private property owners in local communities, understanding how to secure that cooperation is important. We used an ethnographic approach to critically review the Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) processes used in attempts to develop regional HCPs to benefit the Houston toad (Bufo houstonensis) and the Florida Key deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium; hereafter, Key deer). In both cases, the process was framed as a search for the optimum solution through collaboration and consensus building, and in neither case was the solution achieved. The paradoxical nature of liberal democracy precluded the possibility of a single, ideal solution. Failing to find the optimal solution led to disillusionment and pessimism with the process among HCP participants. We suggest that within democratic political contexts, approaches to conservation planning that center around bounded conflict, which is rooted in acknowledgment of the paradox inherent to the ideals of liberty and equality, are more likely to produce satisfactory results than are consensus-based approaches.
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- 2004
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203. The first European congress on agricultural and food ethics and follow-up workshop on ethics and food biotechnology: A US perspective
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Burkhardt, Jeffrey, Thompson, Paul, and Peterson, Tarla
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The first European Congress on Agriculturaland Food Ethics was held at Wageningen University andResearch Center (WUR), Wageningen, The Netherlands, March 4–6, 1999. This was the inaugural conference forthe newly forming European Society for Agricultural andFood Ethics – EUR-SAFE – and around two hundredpeople from across Europe (and a handful of NorthAmericans) participated. Following theCongress/conference, a small (16 people), two-dayworkshop funded in part by the US National ScienceFoundation focused on similarities and differencesbetween the US and the EU regarding publicdiscourse/debate on food biotechnology. A briefoverview of the Congress and the follow-up workshopsuggests what lessons AFHVS and ASFS might learn fromEuropean experience of agricultural and food ethics.
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- 2000
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204. How key sociodemographic and spatial variables influence stakeholders' social control frames regarding natural resource conservation in East Sikkim, India.
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Banerjee, Paulami, Peterson, Tarla R., Liles, Michael J., Banerjee, Rahul, and Peterson, Markus J.
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SOCIAL control , *CONSERVATION of natural resources , *FOREST management , *NATURAL resources , *SOCIAL acceptance , *NATURAL resources management ,ENVIRONMENTAL protection planning - Abstract
Public engagement is fundamental to environmental planning, yet natural resource professionals often struggle to achieve desired stakeholder participation. This policy intention–action gap often is attributed to failure to integrate people's preferences into policy recommendations. Understanding stakeholders' social control frames, or preferences regarding how society should be organized, offers one response to this challenge. Understanding how these frames (i.e., hierarchist, individualist, egalitarian, and fatalist) emerge may facilitate natural resource planning that appropriately addresses uncertainties implicit in managing complex human-dominated systems. We hypothesized that sociodemographic and spatial variables play an important role in an individual's social control frames related to forest conservation in Sikkim, India. Here we (1) describe administration of a questionnaire to identify social control frames, (2) report results of logistic regression examining the probability of association among key variables and social control frames, and (3) discuss conservation implications of these associations. Our results indicate that although familial generations in region was the only independent variable occurring in all four social control models, other sociodemographic variables that occurred in only one or two models also could be critically important. Similarly, altitude-related preferences may be instructive as natural resource managers assess the suitability of altitude-specific conservation. We suggest that examining how sociodemographic and spatial variables interact with social control preferences may enable resource managers to re-imagine their responsibilities in ways that are more consistent with local cultures. This can serve as a catalyst for designing and implementing policies that sustain long-term conservation goals along with broader social legitimacy and acceptance. • Targeted efforts to synchronize conservation ideals with community priorities are critical for successful conservation. • Key sociodemographic and spatial variables predicted stakeholders' social control frames or forest management preferences. • Familial generations in region was more consistently predictive of respondents' social control frames than any other variable. • Spatial variables (i.e., location-specific data) predicted preference for egalitarian approaches to forest management. • Most respondents seek opportunities to participate in collaborative forest management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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205. Why Conservation Needs Dissent.
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PETERSON, M. NILS, PETERSON, MARKUS J., and PETERSON, TARLA RAI
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NATURE conservation ,CONSERVATION of natural resources ,CONSERVATION biology ,ENDANGERED species ,WILDLIFE conservation ,CONSENSUS (Social sciences) ,SOCIAL constructionism ,ACQUIESCENCE (Law) - Abstract
The article responds to the paper "Theories about Consensus-Based Conservation," by William D. Leach in this issue which comments on the paper "Conservation and the Myth of Consensus," by M. Nils Peterson and colleagues in a 2005 issue. Clarifications are made regarding the primary issues raised by Leach who had argued that the paper by Peterson and colleagues was based on a questionable idea that consensus processes are founded on social constructionism, made the error of confusing consensus with veto power and acquiescence, and had insufficient empirical support.
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- 2006
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206. The will to conservation: A Burkeian analysis of dust bowl rhetoric and American farming motives
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Peterson, Tarla Rai
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The 1930s Dust Bowl has been accepted as the worst environmental disaster in United States history. Analysis of the rhetoric of agricultural conservationists which focuses on this issue reveals that its potential for promoting environmentally sound land-use practices was limited. This essay relies on Kenneth Burke's theory of identification and pentadic ratios to identify the hierarchy of motives associated with land use. I argue that the vulnerability of conservation efforts to competing forces was largely a function of that hierarchy and suggests that an action-oriented perspective would be more conducive to responsible land use.
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- 1986
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207. The will to conservation: A Burkeian analysis of dust bowl rhetoric and American farming motives
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Peterson, Tarla Rai, primary
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- 1986
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208. Sustainability
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Peterson, Tarla Rai, primary and Feldpausch, Andrea, additional
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209. Book Reviews.
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Wolfe, Dylan, Kirby, John T., Simpson, Jennifer S., Brookey, Robert Alan, Norton, Todd, and Peterson, Tarla Rai
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NONFICTION - Abstract
Reviews several books. "Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology," edited by Tarla Rai Peterson; "Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks," edited by Carol S. Lipson and Roberta A. Binkley; "Performing Purity: Whiteness, Pedagogy and the Reconstitution of Power," by John T. Warren; "Disciplining Gender: Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary U.S. Culture," by John M. Sloop; "Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making," edited by Stephen P. Depoe, John W. Delicath and Marie-France Aepli Elsenbeer.
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- 2005
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210. Book Reviews.
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Brechin, Steven R., Kuhn, Richard G., Peterson, Tarla Rai, Schutten, Julie Kalil, Holscher, M. Arthur, and Wehr, Kevin
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- ENVIRONMENTAL State Under Pressure, The (Book), TRITIUM on Ice (Book), WORKING Through Environmental Conflict (Book)
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Reviews various books on society and natural resources. "The Environmental State Under Pressure: Research in Social Problems and Public Policy," edited by Arthur P.J. Mol and Frederick H. Buttel; "Tritium on Ice: The Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power," by Kenneth D. Bergeron; "Working Through Environmental Conflict: The Collaborative Learning Approach," by Steven E. Daniels and Gregg B. Walker.
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- 2004
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211. Communication with Feeling: Emotion, Publicness, and Embodiment.
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Malin, Brent and Peterson, Tarla R.
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- LIVED Body, The (Book), SEDUCING America (Book), BATTLEGROUND of Desire: The Struggle for Self-Control in Modern America (Book)
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Reviews books on emotional communication. 'The Lived Body: Sociological Themes and Embodied Issues,' by Simon Williams and Gillian Bendelow; 'Seducing America: How Television Charms the Modern Voter,' by Robert Hart; 'Battleground of Desire: The Struggle for Self Control in Modern America.'
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- 2001
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212. Legitimating the Chinese Economic Reforms: A Rhetoric of Myth and Orthodoxy.
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Frank, David A. and Peterson, Tarla R.
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CHINESE language , *LITERATURE & state , *RHETORIC ,ECONOMIC conditions in China - Abstract
Focuses on the importance of book `Legitimating the Chinese Economic Reforms: A Rhetoric of Myth and Orthodoxy,' by Alan R. Kluver on Chinese rhetoric. Management of the economic reform program of Deng Xiaoping by the Communist Party; Symbolic recreation of Mao Zedong; Justification on the move toward market socialism by mythic narratives and character.
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- 1999
213. Discourses of Sustainability in Today's Public Sphere.
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Peterson, Tarla
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SUSTAINABLE development ,ENVIRONMENTAL engineering ,PRIVATE sector ,SOCIAL responsibility of business ,BUSINESS ethics ,INDUSTRIAL policy - Abstract
Sustainability can develop only when humans begin to understand themselves as part of, rather than apart from, nature, and use this rearticulated relationship to foster what Aldo Leopold called an expanding community of ethical responsibility. The concept of sustainable development (SD) was intended to facilitate this integration, but has fallen short. Given the political might of the corporate sector in the twenty-first century, such an expanded community cannot begin to develop without significant contributions from the private sector. The corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement may enable a shift toward sustainability by encouraging critical examination of the spaces between humanity and nature, material and symbolic, and subject and object. For example, CSR should encourage corporations to approach the conundrum created by modern society's investment in technology that enables control over nature, while simultaneously degrading the earth's capacity to support human life. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
214. Multi‐attribute preferences for northern bobwhite habitat restoration among texas landowners.
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Valdez, Rene X., Peterson, Markus J., Peterson, Tarla Rai, Peterson, M. Nils, and Perez, Robert M.
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NORTHERN bobwhite , *LANDOWNERS , *LAND management , *LABOR costs , *HABITATS , *FOREST landowners - Abstract
Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) abundance has declined range‐wide over the long term due to factors such as habitat loss and deterioration. Private land management is critical to bobwhite conservation because most bobwhites occur on private lands, but little research has been conducted regarding how private land managers and landowners make decisions about whether and how to restore northern bobwhite habitat. To begin addressing this deficit, we used a choice‐based conjoint approach to determine how Texas, USA, landowners and land managers (surveyed in November 2017) weigh the importance of northern bobwhite hunting opportunities, costs, and labor when making habitat restoration decisions. We also used a latent class analysis to break respondents into segments based on their valuations of these attributes. The results of our latent class analysis indicate that managers and landowners can be grouped into several segments, and most segments do not place a high value on bobwhite hunting opportunities, but instead are more interested in minimizing out‐of‐pocket costs and labor input. Bobwhite habitat restoration programs yielding cost shares ≥50%, labor inputs at ≤30 days/year, and likely coveys flushed per hunting day >4 broadly appealed to landowners; however, ensuring low labor costs was most important, particularly for pragmatic landowners. This indicates that policies minimizing labor inputs and maximizing cost shares may be preferred over increasing hunting opportunities. Finally, we discuss the management preferences and practices of the segment most interested in maximizing bobwhite hunting opportunities and potential outreach strategies for segments of opportunistic and pragmatic landowners who may be persuaded to manage for bobwhite habitat if they perceived this management as economically viable. © 2019 The Authors. Wildlife Society Bulletin Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Reversing the range‐wide decline in northern bobwhite abundance requires conservation actions on private land, but little is known about how private land managers make decisions regarding developing bobwhite habitat. Using a choice‐based conjoint approach we demonstrate that land managers can be grouped into several segments based on their management goals, and most segments do not place a high value on bobwhite hunting opportunities, but instead are most interested in minimizing labor input (i.e., ≤30 days/year) followed by limiting out‐of‐pocket costs (i.e., cost shares ≥ 50%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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215. Rhetorical Arguments and the Project of Globalization.
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Simons, Herbert W. and Peterson, Tarla R.
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- RHETORICAL Hermeneutics & the Project of Globalization (Book)
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Reviews the book `Rhetorical Hermeneutics and the Project of Globalization,' edited by Alan Gross and William Keith.
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- 1999
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216. Public perception of and engagement with emerging low-carbon energy technologies: A literature review
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Peterson, Tarla Rai, Stephens, Jennie C., and Wilson, Elizabeth J.
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ABSTRACTTransitioning to low-carbon energy systems depends on fundamental changes in technologies, policies, and institutions. In Western democracies, public perceptions and engagement with energy have encouraged innovation while also slowing deployment of low-carbon energy technologies (LCETs).Transitioning to low-carbon energy systems requires re-engineering technologies and changing the ways people interact with energy. This shift involves both technological and social changes including modifications in policies and institutional configurations. In Western democracies, public perceptions and engagement with energy have encouraged innovation while also slowing deployment of low-carbon energy technologies (LCETs). To aid understanding of how energy systems are evolving toward lower-carbon technologies in Western democracies, this study reviews the literature on public perception of and engagement with emerging LCETs. Focusing primarily on electricity generating technologies, we explore how multiple factors related to place and process shape public perceptions of and engagement with LCETs, thereby influencing their development and deployment. This study first reviews literature related to how place and process influence emerging LCETs and then provides a comparative example of differential development of wind energy in Texas and Massachusetts (USA) to demonstrate how place and process may interact to influence the patterns of LCET deployment.
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- 2015
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217. A Household Perspective for Biodiversity Conservation
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PETERSON, M. NILS, PETERSON, MARKUS J., PETERSON, TARLA RAI, and LIU, JIANGUO
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- 2007
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218. BLACK LUNG: ANATOMY OF A PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTER.
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Martin, Steven E. and Peterson, Tarla
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PUBLIC health , *NONFICTION novel - Abstract
Reviews the book 'Black Lung: Anatomy of Public Health Disaster,' by Alan Derickson.
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- 2001
219. DANCING IN CHAINS (Book Review).
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Frobish, Todd S. and Peterson, Tarla R.
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- DANCING in Chains (Book)
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Reviews the book `Dancing in Chains: Narrative and Memory in Political Theory,' by Joshua F. Dienstag.
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- 2000
220. ILLNESS AND CULTURE IN THE POSTMODERN AGE (Book Review).
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Vanderford, Marsha L. and Peterson, Tarla R.
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- ILLNESS & Culture in the Postmodern Age (Book)
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Reviews the book `Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age,' by David B. Morris.
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- 2000
221. CULTURAL BOUNDARIES OF SCIENCE (Book Review).
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Grey, Stephanie Houston and Peterson, Tarla R.
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- CULTURAL Boundaries of Science (Book)
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Reviews the book `Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line,' by Thomas Gieryn.
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- 2000
222. Ecology: scientific, deep and feminist
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Peterson, Tarla Rai and Peterson, Markus J.
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ENVIRONMENTAL policy ,ECOLOGY ,DEEP ecology ,ECOFEMINISM - Published
- 1996
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223. A rhetorical critique of "nonmarket" valuations
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Peterson, Tarla Rai and Peterson, Markus J.
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ANIMALS ,RESOURCE allocation ,ENVIRONMENTAL ethics ,ECONOMICS ,CONSERVATION of natural resources - Published
- 1993
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224. Book reviews.
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Mallin, Irwin and Peterson, Tarla R.
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- MORAL Conflict (Book)
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Reviews the book `Moral Conflict: When Social Worlds Collide,' by W. Barnett Pearce and Stephen W. Littlejohn.
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- 1999
225. Book reviews.
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Peterson, Tarla Rai and Ivie, Robert L.
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- DISCORDANT Harmonies (Book)
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Reviews the book `Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-First Century,' by Daniel B. Botkin.
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- 1992
226. Conservation and the Myth of Consensus.
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PETERSON, M. NILS, PETERSON, MARKUS J., and PETERSON, TARLA RAI
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CONSERVATION of natural resources , *DECISION making , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *CONSENSUS (Social sciences) , *POLICY sciences , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *POWER (Social sciences) - Abstract
Environmental policy makers are embracing consensus-based approaches to environmental decision making in an attempt to enhance public participation in conservation and facilitate the potentially incompatible goals of environmental protection and economic growth. Although such approaches may produce positive results in immediate spatial and temporal contexts and under some forms of governance, their overuse has potentially dangerous implications for conservation within many democratic societies. We suggest that environmental decision making rooted in consensus theory leads to the dilution of socially powerful conservation metaphors and legitimizes current power relationships rooted in unsustainable social constructions of reality. We also suggest an argumentative model of environmental decision making rooted in ecology will facilitate progressive environmental policy by placing the environmental agenda on firmer epistemological ground and legitimizing challenges to current power hegemonies that dictate unsustainable practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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227. RHETORICAL FIGURES IN SCIENCE.
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Gross, Alan and Peterson, Tarla
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RHETORICAL criticism , *NONFICTION novel - Abstract
Reviews the book 'Rhetorical Figures in Science,' by Jeanne Fahnestock.
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- 2001
228. SCIENCE IN TRANSLATION: MOVEMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE THROUGH CULTURES AND TIME.
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Priest, Susanna Honig and Peterson, Tarla
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SCIENTIFIC communication , *NONFICTION novel - Abstract
Reviews the book 'Science in Translation: Movements of Knowledge Through Cultures and Time,' by Scott L. Montgomery.
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- 2001
229. TELLING THE SUCCESS STORY (Book Review).
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Jackson, Sally and Peterson, Tarla R.
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- TELLING the Success Story (Book)
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Reviews the book `Telling the Success Story: Acclaiming and Disclaiming Discourse,' by P.J. Benoit.
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- 2000
230. CIVIC WARS (Book Review).
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Simonson, Peter and Peterson, Tarla R.
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- CIVIC Wars (Book)
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Reviews the book `Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Century,' by Mary Ryan.
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- 2000
231. SPEAKING CHICANA (Book Review).
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Cantu, Rosalinda and Peterson, Tarla R.
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- SPEAKING Chicana (Book)
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Reviews the book `Speaking Chicana: Voice, Power, and Identity,' edited by D. Letticia Galindo and Maria Dolores Gonzales.
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- 2000
232. Book reviews.
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Gonzalez, Alberto and Peterson, Tarla R.
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- RHETORICAL Career of Cesar Chavez, The (Book)
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Reviews the book `The Rhetorical Career of Cesar Chavez,' by John C. Hammerback and Richard J. Jensen.
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- 1999
233. Book reviews.
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Price, David C. and Peterson, Tarla R.
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- MONITORING the News (Book)
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Reviews the book `Monitoring the News: The Brilliant Launch and Sudden Collapse of the Monitor Channel,' by Susan Bridge.
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- 1999
234. Book reviews.
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Theodore, Alisse and Peterson, Tarla R.
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- SEX & Citizenship in Antebellum America (Book)
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Reviews the book `Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America,' by Nancy Isenberg.
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- 1999
235. Book reviews.
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Beasley, Vanessa B. and Peterson, Tarla R.
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- POLITICALLY Speaking (Book)
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Reviews the book `Politically Speaking: A Worldwide Examination of Language Used in the Public Sphere,' edited by Ofer Feldman and Christ'l De Landtsheer.
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- 1999
236. Book reviews.
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Brookey, Robert Alan and Peterson, Tarla R.
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- FREEDOM to Differ (Book)
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Reviews the book `Freedom to Differ: The Shaping of the Gay and Lesbian Struggle for Civil Rights,' by Diane Helene Miller.
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- 1999
237. Shoot shovel and sanction yourself: Self-policing as a response to wolf poaching among Swedish hunters.
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Peterson, M. Nils, von Essen, Erica, Hansen, Hans Peter, and Peterson, Tarla Rai
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POACHING , *WOLVES , *WOLF hunting , *WOLF conservation , *ANIMAL welfare - Abstract
Self-policing is essential for addressing wildlife-related crime where illegal activity is extremely diffuse, and limited resources are available for monitoring and enforcement. Emerging research on self-policing suggest key drivers including economics, folk traditions, and socio-political resistance. We build on this research with a case study evaluating potential drivers of self-policing illegal wolf killing among Swedish hunting teams. Swedish hunters marginally leaned toward considering illegal hunting of wolves an expression of resistance (10.30 out of a possible 17 on a resistance scale) and strongly believed outsiders had undue influence over hunting (15.79 out of a possible 21 on an influence scale). Most (73%) Swedish hunters stated they would report illegal wolf killing to authorities, but 20% stated they would handle the infractions through internal sanctions. Viewing illegal hunting of wolves as a form of political resistance, viewing wolf management as being controlled locally, and perceived prevalence of illegal wolf killing among hunting acquaintances were positive predictors of preferring internal sanctions to address illegal wolf killing over reporting the crimes. Resistance and perceived prevalence of wolf killing also predicted preferring no action to address illegal wolf killing. These results suggest that a counterpublic of marginalized ruralism may promote forms of self-policing that rely on internal censure for illegal wolf killing rather than using formal legal channels. Similarly, folk traditions within this counterpublic (e.g., perceptions of prevalence of illegal wolf killing) shape if and how internal sanctions are advocated. Re-engaging marginalized hunting groups and emphasizing the rarity of illegal wolf killing may promote wolf conservation, both in Sweden and in other democratic regimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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238. Electric (dis) connections: Comparative review of smart grid news coverage in the United States and Canada.
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Mallett, Alexandra, Stephens, Jennie C., Wilson, Elizabeth J., Langheim, Ria, Reiber, Ryan, and Peterson, Tarla Rai
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SMART power grids , *POWER resources , *RENEWABLE energy sources , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *ENERGY policy - Abstract
The term smart grid (SG) has been widely used in both the United States (U.S.) and Canada to represent multiple visions and configurations of electricity system change. In both countries policies, programs, and initiatives have emerged to promote technological and social changes associated with SG, and different patterns of SG implementation and governance are apparent at local, regional, and national levels. This paper reports on a comparative analysis of SG media content in nationally-circulating newspapers in the U.S. and Canada to explore patterns of SG conversations in the two countries. Media reporting about SG provides a valuable lens that reflects public discourse and also contributes to setting the public agenda by shaping public opinion and framing key issues. Despite similarities in terms of policy, program design, and SG deployment strategies, several prominent differences between the two countries emerge in public conversations. Firstly, Canadian SG newspaper content focuses more on implementation and describing people's experiences with smart meters, while the U.S. content focuses more on commercial opportunities with more reference to private sector actors and various technological components beyond smart meters. Secondly, although media coverage in both countries frequently highlights technological and economic benefits of SG, positive SG framing is more frequent in the U.S. newspapers than in the Canadian ones. Negative SG portrayals, including cultural, political and health and safety risks, are more frequently mentioned in the Canadian newspapers. These differing SG framings could be due to national level cultural differences. In the U.S, considered to be more of an individualistic society, there is more emphasis on business opportunities, being entrepreneurial, and more private sector involvement in the electricity sector. By contrast, in Canada, public authorities, more prominent in the electricity market than in the U.S., play a key role in smart grid deployment. Furthermore, in Canada, considered to have more social support structures for individuals and communities, there was more emphasis on the experiences of people. This suggests that cultural differences at the national level be a further contextual lens helpful to policy makers and technology proponents as they embark upon energy system change initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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239. Low Carbon Energy Democracy in the Global South?
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Campbell, Ben, Cloke, Jon, Brown, Ed, Feldpausch-Parker, Andrea M., Endres, Danielle, Peterson, Tarla Rai, and Gomez, Stephanie L.
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Social science tools and practitioner experiences help to understand relations of democratic processes to low carbon energy transitions in the Global South. This requires interrogating Euro-centric assumptions about participation, national development, and infrastructure models in conditions of inequality and state capture. Issues of historical extractive energy injustice and the asymmetries of Southern climate vulnerability as compared to Northern GHG emission sources, drag this topic into political focus for questioning the models of mass consumption that have driven economic development over two centuries. Can democracy be reinvented with renewables?
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- 2021
240. Deconstructing the Poaching Phenomenon: A Review of Typologies for Understanding Illegal Hunting.
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von Essen, Erica, Hansen, Hans Peter, Nordström Källström, Helena, Peterson, M. Nils, and Peterson, Tarla Rai
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POACHING , *WILDLIFE crimes , *HUNTING , *POACHERS , *NEUTRALIZATION theory , *DEVIANT behavior - Abstract
This review explores the way that the illegal hunting phenomenon has been framed by research. We demarcate three main approaches that have been used to deconstruct the crime. These include ‘drivers of the deviance’, ‘profiling perpetrators’ and ‘categorizing the crime’. Disciplinary silo thinking on the part of prominent theories, an overreliance on either a micro or a macro perspective, and adherence to either an instrumental or normative perspective are identified as weaknesses in existing approaches. Based on these limitations in addressing sociopolitical dimensions of the phenomenon, we call for a more integrative understanding that moves illegal hunting from being approached as a ‘crime’ or ‘deviance’ to being seen as a political phenomenon driven by the concepts of defiance and radicalization. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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241. Smart Grid Coverage in U.S. Newspapers: Characterizing Public Conversations.
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Langheim, Ria, Skubel, Melissa, Chen, Xiao, Maxwell, William, Peterson, Tarla Rai, Wilson, Elizabeth, and Stephens, Jennie C.
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SMART power grids , *INVESTMENTS , *ELECTRIC power distribution grids ,AMERICAN Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Abstract
An analysis of The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and The New York Times from 1998 to 2013 suggests that media coverage of smart grid issues focuses more on benefits than risks. Coverage peaked in 2009 with substantial federal-level investment in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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242. Sharing the Earth : The Rhetoric of Sustainable Development
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Peterson, Tarla Rai and Peterson, Tarla Rai
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- Sustainable development
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- 1997
243. Policy Stakeholders' Perceptions of Carbon Capture and Storage: A Comparison of Four U.S. States.
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Chaudhry, Rumika, Fischlein, Miriam, Larson, Joel, Hall, Damon M., Peterson, Tarla Rai, Wilson, Elizabeth J., and Stephens, Jennie C.
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CARBON sequestration , *STAKEHOLDERS , *ENERGY policy , *COMPARATIVE studies , *CARBON dioxide mitigation , *NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations - Abstract
Abstract: Over the past decade, the United States (US) has demonstrated strong and evolving interest in the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS), an emerging set of technologies with potential to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. Given the many technical, economic, and environmental uncertainties about the future of CCS, the political salience of this technology is high. In the US, states make key decisions about deploying energy technology projects, but variation in state-level energy context (both technical and socio-political) is substantial. This research assesses variation in the state-level energy context for CCS development by exploring energy policy stakeholders' perceptions of CCS in four geographically and demographically diverse states. Policy stakeholders have different degrees of familiarity with CCS, and the goal of this research is to understand and compare the perceptions of CCS among stakeholders who shape state-level energy policy. Semi-structured interviews with 84 energy policy stakeholders across government, industry, academia, and non-governmental organizations active in four different states (Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana and Texas) were analyzed to compare perceptions of CCS risks and benefits. Negative associations of CCS were mentioned more frequently than positive attributes in each state, and technical, political and economic risks are more dominant than environmental or health and safety risks. Content analysis of the interviews provides insight on emerging sub-national discourse regarding CCS, on state-level variation in familiarity with CCS, and on sub-national variation in the socio-political context for energy technologies. The variation in state and stakeholder energy priorities and perceptions revealed in this study highlights challenges in the development and implementation of national-level energy policy and also specific challenges in the deployment of CCS. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2013
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244. Obscuring Ecosystem Function with Application of the Ecosystem Services Concept.
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PETERSON, MARKUS J., HALL, DAMON M., FELDPAUSCH‐PARKER, ANDREA M., and PETERSON, TARLA RAI
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BIOTIC communities , *ECOLOGY , *BIODIVERSITY , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *APPLIED ecology , *WATERSHED ecology , *WATERSHED management , *SOIL conservation , *FRESHWATER organisms - Abstract
Conservationists commonly have framed ecological concerns in economic terms to garner political support for conservation and to increase public interest in preserving global biodiversity. Beginning in the early 1980s, conservation biologists adapted neoliberal economics to reframe ecosystem functions and related biodiversity as ecosystem services to humanity. Despite the economic success of programs such as the Catskill/Delaware watershed management plan in the United States and the creation of global carbon exchanges, today's marketplace often fails to adequately protect biodiversity. We used a Marxist critique to explain one reason for this failure and to suggest a possible, if partial, response. Reframing ecosystem functions as economic services does not address the political problem of commodification. Just as it obscures the labor of human workers, commodification obscures the importance of the biota (ecosystem workers) and related abiotic factors that contribute to ecosystem functions. This erasure of work done by ecosystems impedes public understanding of biodiversity. Odum and Odum's radical suggestion to use the language of ecosystems (i.e., emergy or energy memory) to describe economies, rather than using the language of economics (i.e., services) to describe ecosystems, reverses this erasure of the ecosystem worker. Considering the current dominance of economic forces, however, implementing such solutions would require social changes similar in magnitude to those that occurred during the 1960s. Niklas Luhmann argues that such substantive, yet rapid, social change requires synergy among multiple societal function systems (i.e., economy, education, law, politics, religion, science), rather than reliance on a single social sphere, such as the economy. Explicitly presenting ecosystem services as discreet and incomplete aspects of ecosystem functions not only allows potential economic and environmental benefits associated with ecosystem services, but also enables the social and political changes required to ensure valuation of ecosystem functions and related biodiversity in ways beyond their measurement on an economic scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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245. Socio-technical scales in socio-environmental modeling: Managing a system-of-systems modeling approach.
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Iwanaga, Takuya, Wang, Hsiao-Hsuan, Hamilton, Serena H., Grimm, Volker, Koralewski, Tomasz E., Salado, Alejandro, Elsawah, Sondoss, Razavi, Saman, Yang, Jing, Glynn, Pierre, Badham, Jennifer, Voinov, Alexey, Chen, Min, Grant, William E., Peterson, Tarla Rai, Frank, Karin, Shenk, Gary, Barton, C. Michael, Jakeman, Anthony J., and Little, John C.
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SOCIOTECHNICAL systems , *POLICY sciences , *SYSTEM integration , *DECISION making - Abstract
System-of-systems approaches for integrated assessments have become prevalent in recent years. Such approaches integrate a variety of models from different disciplines and modeling paradigms to represent a socio-environmental (or social-ecological) system aiming to holistically inform policy and decision-making processes. Central to the system-of-systems approaches is the representation of systems in a multi-tier framework with nested scales. Current modeling paradigms, however, have disciplinary-specific lineage, leading to inconsistencies in the conceptualization and integration of socio-environmental systems. In this paper, a multidisciplinary team of researchers, from engineering, natural and social sciences, have come together to detail socio-technical practices and challenges that arise in the consideration of scale throughout the socio-environmental modeling process. We identify key paths forward, focused on explicit consideration of scale and uncertainty, strengthening interdisciplinary communication, and improvement of the documentation process. We call for a grand vision (and commensurate funding) for holistic system-of-systems research that engages researchers, stakeholders, and policy makers in a multi-tiered process for the co-creation of knowledge and solutions to major socio-environmental problems. • Scale incompatibilities among system representations are a key challenge in socio-environmental systems modeling. • Issues of scale arise from the complexity, size and heterogeneity of the constituent systems and their interactions. • A more holistic systems-of-systems modeling framework is needed within which to integrate current approaches and tools. • Socio-technical considerations for system-of-systems modeling is presented from a range of disciplinary perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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246. Credibility and advocacy in conservation science.
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Horton CC, Peterson TR, Banerjee P, and Peterson MJ
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- Biodiversity, Conservation of Natural Resources methods, Environmental Policy, Politics
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Conservation policy sits at the nexus of natural science and politics. On the one hand, conservation scientists strive to maintain scientific credibility by emphasizing that their research findings are the result of disinterested observations of reality. On the other hand, conservation scientists are committed to conservation even if they do not advocate a particular policy. The professional conservation literature offers guidance on negotiating the relationship between scientific objectivity and political advocacy without damaging conservation science's credibility. The value of this guidance, however, may be restricted by limited recognition of credibility's multidimensionality and emergent nature: it emerges through perceptions of expertise, goodwill, and trustworthiness. We used content analysis of the literature to determine how credibility is framed in conservation science as it relates to apparent contradictions between science and advocacy. Credibility typically was framed as a static entity lacking dimensionality. Authors identified expertise or trustworthiness as important, but rarely mentioned goodwill. They usually did not identify expertise, goodwill, or trustworthiness as dimensions of credibility or recognize interactions among these 3 dimensions of credibility. This oversimplification may limit the ability of conservation scientists to contribute to biodiversity conservation. Accounting for the emergent quality and multidimensionality of credibility should enable conservation scientists to advance biodiversity conservation more effectively., (© 2015 The Authors. Conservation Biology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology.)
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