A rhetorical analysis of the scientific debate over assisted colonization

Klenk, Nicole; Larson, Brendon M. H.

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2013.04.006

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“…Similarly, Veronese, Pepe, Dagdukee, and Yaghi () employed textual network analysis to identify reoccurring categories and themes in transcriptions of in‐depth interviews related to teachers' perceptions of well‐being. Klenk and Larson () combined textual network analysis with manual coding of hundreds of academic papers to examine the co‐occurrences of arguments around the debate over assisted colonization of species among the scientific community.…”

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“…Few previous studies have applied textual network analysis to develop theory (Bergstrom & Holmes, 2000;Klenk & Larson, 2013;Veronese et al, 2018), examine hypothesis (Chung & Park, 2010;Kang et al, 2017;Meraz, 2015;Segev & Blondheim, 2013), and conduct initial mapping of the main themes and topics in the text (Boudana & Segev, 2017;Carley, 1994). The strengths of this approach were presented, including the ability to perform a more objective grounded content analysis, in which the text is translated into a two-dimensional map.…”

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Textual network analysis: Detecting prevailing themes and biases in international news and social media

Segev

2020

Sociology Compass

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The growing volumes of information available today provide opportunities but also challenges for social scientists. This paper presents textual network analysis—a network analysis procedure that transforms any given text into a visual map of words co‐occurring together. It aims at scholars and students who are not familiar with network analysis, showing step‐by‐step how to use this approach and highlighting its advantages and applications. It demonstrates how to identify the main themes appearing in the text as well as to detect its biases and frames. Researchers can use this procedure as a grounded content analysis to formulate theories or as a basis to test existing hypotheses. The second part of the paper presents two studies that applied textual network analysis: (a) to identify the main themes raised by elite newspapers on the “fake news” discourse and (b) to map the topics related to China on Twitter. Both examples show how textual network analysis can be relevant for communication, international relations, and political science scholars as well as for practitioners, wishing to understand the prevailing discourses and tailor their messages more effectively.

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Textual network analysis: Detecting prevailing themes and biases in international news and social media

Segev

2020

Sociology Compass

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“…15 While its risks and benefits have been debated in the conservation biology and forestry research communities, and suggestions for planning and management provided, there is little consensus within the academic literature over whether to adopt it or not as a policy option. 16,17 The use of assisted migration in forestry, however, appears to be less contentious than in conservation biology, where it has been proposed as a species rescue strategy in response to climate change impacts and projections. In forestry, the potential use of assisted migration mainly targets widespread commercial tree species and seeks to change forest regeneration practices to protect the genetic diversity of these trees by moving populations of species within their historic range or slightly beyond this range.…”

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Adapting forest certification to climate change

Klenk

Larson

McDermott

2014

WIREs Climate Change

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In the context of climate change, the forest sector must consider the extent to which sustainable forest management enables or constrains climate change adaptation and mitigation; it may be that existing values and principles, policies and decision-making processes, and institutions are no longer appropriate. Forest certification has emerged as an important arena for setting international and regional standards for forest management, but it is unclear to what extent it supports or helps develop adaptive capacity for climate change in the forest sector. This paper, therefore, combines a review of the literature on forests and climate adaptation with a systematic assessment of the Forest Stewardship Council Criteria and Indicators (in detail) and other forest and carbon certification schemes (in brief) to shed light on the role of certification standards in mediating forest and climate adaptation strategies.

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“…New Zealand has translocated a number of endangered species to offshore islands that lack non‐native predatory mammals to prevent their extinction, including to locations outside of species’ documented historical range (Ref , p. 799]. Despite this long history of species movements, contemporary proposals to move species to where future climatic and other conditions are likely to be favorable for their survival (known alternately by partial synonyms such as assisted migration, assistant colonization, managed translocation, among others) have inspired passionate and divisive debate over the past decade within the conservation biology literature …”

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“…Clear divides have emerged between authors strongly opposed to its use, and those who believe that cautious implementation may be a viable way to save some species from climate-related extinction. A cottage industry has emerged in reviewing and analyzing this literature to understand the underlying bases of the dispute (e.g., see Refs 2,6,7,17].…”

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A productive role for science in assisted colonization policy

Neff

Carroll

2016

WIREs Climate Change

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Assisted colonization—the intentional movement of species as a climate adaptation strategy—has emerged as a divisive controversy in the conservation biology literature. We review selected scientific literature to understand the nature of the controversy, alongside relevant scholarship on the science‐policy interface to highlight ways in which scientists and their work might most effectively and appropriately inform decisions on this management strategy. The scientific literature thus far is problematic in two ways that threaten to undermine the utility of science to actual decision‐making processes: As a collection, it contains abundant and seemingly incommensurable insights about assisted colonization. This is at least in part a product of nature, which is sufficiently diverse to provide examples and case studies that appear to justify any number of policy preferences regarding ecosystem management. This first shortcoming exacerbates the second: Scientific authors thus far have not adequately addressed the value‐based considerations implicit in their own work, nor acknowledged public's legitimate standing in these inherently value‐based decisions. In combination, these attributes of the literature ensure that additional knowledge on assisted colonization will exacerbate public controversy—rather than dispel it—when public attention increases. We propose that if scientists appropriately disentangle value considerations from technical ones, invite public debates over values, and treat proposals individually rather than debating the approach writ‐large, they stand to have the greatest influence over technical aspects of decision processes. Scientists would serve themselves well to acknowledge the limits of science and embrace public dialogue about specific management proposals. WIREs Clim Change 2016, 7:852–868. doi: 10.1002/wcc.420 This article is categorized under: Climate, Ecology, and Conservation > Extinction Risk Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Climate Science and Decision Making

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A rhetorical analysis of the scientific debate over assisted colonization

Cited by 15 publications

References 40 publications

Textual network analysis: Detecting prevailing themes and biases in international news and social media

Textual network analysis: Detecting prevailing themes and biases in international news and social media

Adapting forest certification to climate change

A productive role for science in assisted colonization policy

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