| Value plurality among conservation professionals. | |
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PMID: 20964714 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Debate on the values that underpin conservation science is rarely based on empirical analysis of the values conservation professionals actually hold. We used Q methodology to investigate the values held by international conservation professionals who attended the annual Student Conference in Conservation Science at the University of Cambridge (U.K.) in 2008 and 2009. The methodology offers a quantitative means of examining human subjectivity. It differs from standard opinion surveys in that individual respondents record the way they feel about statements relative to other statements, which forces them to focus their attention on the issues they believe are most important. The analysis extracts the diverse viewpoints of the respondents, and factor analysis is used to reduce the viewpoints to a smaller set of factors that reflect shared ways of thinking. The junior conservation professionals attending the conference did not share a unifying set of core values; rather, they held a complex series of ideas and a plurality of opinions about conservation and how it should be pursued. This diversity of values empirically challenges recent proposals for conservation professionals to unite behind a single philosophy. Attempts to forge an artificial consensus may be counterproductive to the overall goals conservation professionals are pursuing. |
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Chris Sandbrook; Ivan R Scales; Bhaskar Vira; William M Adams |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2010-10-21 |
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Title: Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology Volume: 25 ISSN: 1523-1739 ISO Abbreviation: Conserv. Biol. Publication Date: 2011 Apr |
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Created Date: 2011-03-17 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9882301 Medline TA: Conserv Biol Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 285-94 Citation Subset: IM |
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©2010 Society for Conservation Biology. |
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Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK. |
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