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Tools for change: Interview with Hugh Possingham

Tools for change: Interview with Hugh Possingham TM: Hugh, from your experiences as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and your work at Stanford and a range of Australian universities, you would have some perspectives on the role researchers must play in helping Australian environmental managers to be much more clever and capable of problem solving? HP: There are two broad areas where universities and agencies interact – research and training. In both areas the biggest challenge is that the disciplines of conservation biology and restoration ecology are changing very fast, with much greater cross‐disciplinary emphasis. However, most of the people who make decisions on management in state agencies were trained 20 or 30 years ago. The question is, did we equip them appropriately? The discipline of conservation biology barely existed 20 years ago and there were only about three journals at that time. Now, on The Web of Science alone, there are 23 journals listed under biodiversity conservation, and a new one seems to appear every year. When I talk to people in agencies most don't know the recent international literature, they barely know it exists because they don't have time to look at it. The second problem that affects the ability of staff to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ecological Management & Restoration Wiley

Tools for change: Interview with Hugh Possingham

McDonald, Tein
Ecological Management & Restoration , Volume 7 (3) – Dec 1, 2006
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TM: Hugh, from your experiences as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and your work at Stanford and a range of Australian universities, you would have some perspectives on the role researchers must play in helping Australian environmental managers to be much more clever and capable of problem solving? HP: There are two broad areas where universities and agencies interact – research and training. In both areas the biggest challenge is that the disciplines of conservation biology and restoration ecology are changing very fast, with much greater cross‐disciplinary emphasis. However, most of the people who make decisions on management in state agencies were trained 20 or 30 years ago. The question is, did we equip them appropriately? The discipline of conservation biology barely existed 20 years ago and there were only about three journals at that time. Now, on The Web of Science alone, there are 23 journals listed under biodiversity conservation, and a new one seems to appear every year. When I talk to people in agencies most don't know the recent international literature, they barely know it exists because they don't have time to look at it. The second problem that affects the ability of staff to

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Published: Dec 1, 2006

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