The Promise of Conservation Biology

Galusky, Wyatt

doi:10.1177/1086026600132008

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“…Objective analysis of the ecosphere's vital signs reveals a steady deterioration in biodiversity and other indicators of global ecological health (Cristol, 2003;Christen, 2001;Galusky, 2000;Suzuki, 2002). In addition, virtually all of the major scientific learned societies (e.g.…”

Section: Corporate Environmental Policy Imperativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sources of judgment error in environmental sensemaking

Schwering

2010

Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal

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Purpose -This paper forwards a conceptual model identifying some of the key sources of judgment error in individual environmental sensemaking. Recommendations are offered to mitigate some of these biasing dysfunctions and thereby improve the effectiveness of environmentally related business policy. Design/methodology/approach -Theories of cognitive and behavioral sciences are reviewed and applied to create a conceptual model describing some of the key influences on individual sensemaking in regard to environmental risk and opportunity. Findings -It is found that the model presented in this paper contributes to the literature of corporate social responsibility in explaining some of the heuristic phenomena that can lead to denial of a firm's negative environmental impact, or conversely, recognition of emerging opportunities arising from increasing societal concern for environmental integrity. Many environmental scientists believe denial is omnipresent in modern business and governmental organizations. In addition, because the model is grounded in well-established theories of problematic heuristic bias, it helps identify "leverage points" where well-designed interventions can be deployed to promote learning and improved decision making. The model helps the decision maker better understand and potentially influence ethical judgment because ethical decision making is conceived within the frame of bounded ethicality versus a less potent theory of intervention based upon espoused moral prescriptions. Research limitations/implications -Some important influences on environmental sensemaking are not emphasized in the model to include dimensions of individual personality, early childhood experiences, gender, religious background, etc. Rather, the emphasis here is placed upon relatively ubiquitous cognitive heuristics and other cognitive phenomena likely to influence many organizational decision makers. Originality/value -This analysis and resulting conceptual model should help change agents, students, policy makers and business practitioners avoid predictable biases and sensemaking distortions and, in so doing, improve the firm's social responsibility profile and recognition of emerging business opportunities growing out of sustainability imperatives.

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Section: Corporate Environmental Policy Imperativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sources of judgment error in environmental sensemaking

Schwering

2010

Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal

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“…. crucial for reintegrating ethical considerations into the production of knowledge and giving voice to concerns that cannot be reduced to concepts of efficiency or exchange" (Galusky 2000). The ethical and political commitments of conservation biology have allowed this emergent field to become deeply entwined with environmental activism in a way that more orthodox ecology no longer seems capable of doing.…”

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Success and Its Price: The Institutionalization and Political Relevance of Industrial Ecology

Cohen¹,

Howard

2006

J of Industrial Ecology

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As industrial ecology (IE) solidifies conceptually and methodologically, and as it gains visibility and legitimacy in academia, industry, and government, it is important that the IE community periodically evaluate the status of its emerging institutional arrangements. At the same time, industrial ecologists should assess the political relations developing between the field and the larger world. We analyze four institutional criteria: professional legitimacy, viable clientele, entrepreneurial acumen, and occupational opportunities, as well as a more controversial fifth measure‐political relevance. Drawing a comparison with the field of ecology, we argue that efforts to foster IE institutionally can, ironically, conflict with the objective of seeing IE become “the science and engineering of sustainability”. The article concludes by reflecting on the importance of this kind of critical appraisal and on why many observers of the field remain hopeful.

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Conservation Through Scientific Collaboration: Case Study—Western-gorilla.org

Stokes

2008

Conservation in the 21st Century: Gorillas as a Case Study

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The Promise of Conservation Biology

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

Sources of judgment error in environmental sensemaking

Sources of judgment error in environmental sensemaking

Success and Its Price: The Institutionalization and Political Relevance of Industrial Ecology

Conservation Through Scientific Collaboration: Case Study—Western-gorilla.org

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