Turner RE "On the cusp of restoration: Science and society " Restoration Ecology 13(1):165-173 March 2005.

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail Addresses: euturne at lsu.edu

Title: On the cusp of restoration: Science and society

Author(s): Turner RE

Source: RESTORATION ECOLOGY 13 (1): 165-173 MAR 2005

Document Type: Article
Language: English
Cited References: 32      Times Cited: 1

Abstract:
Habitat restoration has reached political respectability at many scales
across the Earth and represents a serious reversal of some entrenched
social views regarding the environment as a strictly exploitable resource
for private gain. Science helps improve restoration by bringing clarity in
the form of order, understanding, and descriptions of uncertainty. But
scientific ideas and experience must be offered in a timely manner and
welcomed to be a useful and accurate part of restoration. These ideas may
be adopted or fail to be influential for vastly different reasons. Valid
ideas may be untimely or be packaged too poorly to be acceptable, or an
idea may be erroneous, but still be acceptable (and lead to poor decisions)
where the ability to convince or superior networking skills compensate for
an inadequacy of facts, logic, or intentions. The most desirable outcome is
to fairly weigh all relevant ideas during decision-making, and without
confusing accuracy and clarity with consensus or deliberative inclusivity.
Project scale influences these outcomes because social and policy
complexity increases with project size. Ideas, of whatever origin, must be
applied in the imperfectly comprehended landscape and "policy-scape" of
policies and personal preferences influencing the spatial productivity,
richness, and uses. Successful habitat restoration will have the science
welcomed and developing in well-ventilated and professional ways, while
simultaneously participating in the world of the larger policy-scape.
Judgments will be made and mistakes occur, of course. But, if done well, we
may end up restoring habitats, institutions and parts of society.


Addresses: Turner RE (reprint author), Louisiana State Univ, Coastal Ecol
Inst, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
Louisiana State Univ, Coastal Ecol Inst, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA

E-mail Addresses: euturne at lsu.edu

Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING INC, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN, MA 02148 USA
Subject Category: ECOLOGY
IDS Number: 902YL
ISSN: 1061-2971


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