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The role of animal science in natural resource management: current decision making models and future needs
- Source :
- Journal of Animal Science. 76:948
- Publication Year :
- 1998
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 1998.
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Abstract
- Sustainable systems for land and natural resource management must be biologically, economically, and socially sustainable. Scientists and educators have historically viewed their role as developing new knowledge and technology to enhance biological and economic sustainability. Scientists have traditionally viewed sociopolitical sustainability and policy development as beyond our appropriate roles. Changing public values and perceptions on appropriate land use and natural resource protection are forcing land grant universities and their scientists and educators to re-evaluate traditional paradigms. The animal science community, in concert with the social and other biological sciences, must become more proactive in decision making processes on appropriate land use and natural resource management if we are to remain relevant. This paper describes the current situation and outlines approaches for the research and education communities to be important contributors to collaborative decision making processes on land and natural resource management.
- Subjects :
- Conservation of Natural Resources
Land grant
Land use
Decision Making
General Medicine
Natural resource
United States
Decision Support Techniques
Group decision-making
Animal science
Sustainability
Genetics
Animals
Humans
Animal Science and Zoology
Resource management
Business
Animal Husbandry
Natural resource management
Decision-making models
Food Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00218812
- Volume :
- 76
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Animal Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6cd9abf110d204d0b22640ae38a062a1
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2527/1998.764948x