Rethinking Evidence Practices for Environmental Decision-Making in the Anthropocene
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2023Type
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This chapter discusses the development of invasive species research and policy throughout the 20th century as a paradigmatic model case for reflecting evidence practices and evidence contestation in ecology and environmental decision-making. It reviews how the initial framing of invasive species research and policy formulated in the 1950s–1980s was increasingly contested and how invasion scientists responded to growing dissent and post-normality. It concludes with the proposition that consensus on environmental action, despite uncertain facts and pluralism, depends on the continuous nurturing of an ecological citizenship that builds on a carefully interwoven web of ecological knowledge, social institutions and cultural practices. This can only be reached through collaboration among the ecological, social and human sciences, the arts, nature-based practitioners and civil society to simultaneously address the embeddedness of ecological knowledge in social and cultural contexts and the embeddedness of social and cultural practices in an ecological lifeworld. Show more
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Evidence ContestationPages / Article No.
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