1. Four priorities for new links between conservation science and accounting research
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Feger, C, Mermet, L, Vira, B, Addison, P, Barker, R, Birkin, F, Burns, J, Cooper, S, Couvet, D, Cuckston, T, Daily, G, Dey, C, Gallagher, L, Hails, R, Jollands, S, Mace, G, McKenzie, E, Milne, M, Quattrone, P, Rambaud, A, Russell, S, Santamaria, M, Sutherland, W, Feger, Clément [0000-0003-0157-3292], Addison, Prue FE [0000-0002-4195-9723], Couvet, Denis [0000-0001-8692-9694], Dey, Colin [0000-0002-8035-4807], Hails, Rosemary [0000-0002-6975-1318], Jollands, Stephen [0000-0002-2822-5450], Mace, Georgina [0000-0001-8965-5211], Milne, Markus [0000-0002-3760-9210], Rambaud, Alexandre [0000-0002-4589-850X], Russell, Shona [0000-0002-3473-5019], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, University of St Andrews. School of Management, University of St Andrews. Centre for the Study of Philanthropy & Public Good, AgroParisTech, Montpellier Research in Management (MRM), Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier (GSCM) - Montpellier Business School-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Geography [Cambridge, UK], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Department of Zoology [Oxford], University of Oxford [Oxford], Saïd Business School, University of Sheffield [Sheffield], University of Exeter Business School, University of Bristol [Bristol], Aston Business School, Aston University [Birmingham], Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, University of Stirling, University of Geneva [Switzerland], National Trust, University College of London [London] (UCL), University of Canterbury [Christchurch], University of Edinburgh, centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement (CIRED), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-AgroParisTech-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), Dauphine Recherches en Management (DRM), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of St Andrews [Scotland], Natural Capital Coalition, Department of Zoology [Cambridge], and Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier (GSCM) - Montpellier Business School-Université de Montpellier (UM)
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ddc:333.7-333.9 ,Diversity ,Conservation of Natural Resources ,Conservation strategy ,QH301 Biology ,T-NDAS ,HF5601 Accounting ,Biodiversity ,AF Accountability Sustainability and Governance ,HF5601 ,QH301 ,Accounting ,[SDE]Environmental Sciences ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,Ecosystem services ,Ecosystem - Abstract
Engagement with diverse social science disciplines is essential to revealing political, social, and institutional challenges that must be addressed to advance effective biodiversity conservation (Bennett et al. 2017; Teel et al. 2018). One challenge that remains insufficiently investigated is frustration with the lack of impact of innovative information tools and systems of accounts aimed at motivating and guiding ecosystem management. The conservation community invests considerable efforts in their creation and experimentation. However, ecosystem-based tools do not always lead to the changes in decision, action, or policy conser- vation scientists expect (e.g., Ruckelshaus et al. 2015). Often, the inability of such information systems to gen- erate expected changes is not due to technical limitations rather than the too fragile articulation between their de- sign and the complex realities of developing strategies and organizing management of ecosystems in a diversity of contexts. Investigating such articulation between an information system and the organizational details of its systematic use is precisely what characterizes an aca- demic field: accounting, which belongs to management as a discipline and often intersects with social sciences or economics.
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