By Aynsley J. Kellow
ISBN-10: 1847204708
ISBN-13: 9781847204707
This ebook argues that the digital nature of a lot environmental technological know-how and the appliance of non-science ideas reminiscent of the precautionary precept facilitate the virtuous corruption of environmental technology. Drawing upon examples from conservation biology and variety Aynsley Kellow illustrates that the matter is extra common than this sector on my own might recommend and is usual within the vital box of weather technology. He argues the significance of trustworthy technology because the foundation for environmental coverage and administration additionally offering simply clinical foundation for public coverage is a chimera - there's hardly ever a linear courting among technological know-how and public coverage, with clinical realizing resulting in just one coverage alternative.
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He has been quoted as saying that his science led him to those beliefs (Guardian, 30 October 1999), and he may well be correct, but his work (as he moved from theoretical physics to ecology in the early 1970s) did lend much support to environmentalism because it drew attention to the fragility of ecosystems, and his values might have spurred at least his curiosity. But, significantly, he also 28 Science and public policy typified the rise of virtual science in ecology, because he was by training a theoretical physicist, not a field biologist.
Even if we accept those numbers, the discovery of a tiger in a New York apartment in 2003 (when it attacked its owner) points to a phenomenon which suggests that tiger conservation is not about mere numbers. In the United States alone, there are estimated to be as many as 13 000 (and as few as 5000) tigers in private hands (Kapp and Ramsey, 2003). Their owners are forbidden by national laws giving effect to CITES obligations from selling skins or other products, and there has been evidence of illicit trade including (incredibly) meat substitution.
And as we noted earlier, Robert May is a longstanding trustee of the WWF (Worldwide Fund for Nature, formerly the World Wildlife Fund). Thomas E. Lovejoy, now chief biodiversity adviser to the president of the World Bank was Director of the World Wildlife Fund (US) from 1973 to 1987. And Wilson has served on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the World Wildlife Fund since 1978, and on its Board of Directors, 1984–94 and Executive Committee, 1987–92. He is also on the Board of Directors, The Nature Conservancy (1993–) and Conservation International (1997–).