Conservation Research, Policy and Practice

Applicability of research findings to conservation policy.

Baldwin et al. (2007 [this issue]) raise a number of concerns about our efforts to discern the independent effects of human activity levels and distributions on biodiversity (Brown & Laband 2006). Their central point of contention seems to be that we failed to acknowledge properly in our work that “land-use change due to sprawl is a leading threat to biological diversity in the United States.” ...

A Review on the International Handbook of Suicide Prevention: Research, Policy and Practice

Getting research into policy and practice.

WhEn rESEArCh ChALLEngES poLiCy AnD prACtiCE

The Judges’ Journal • Vol. 54 No. 2 rates of treatment retention than addicts participating in treatment voluntarily and lower rates of recidivism than defendants in traditional courts.1 Another reason for the blossoming of mental health courts was a belief by judges and other stakeholders in the logic underlying their design and operations. They assumed that (1) untreated, or inadequately trea...

People , Policy and Practice RESEARCH FOCUS CONFERENCE

Mixed methods evaluation of Schools Intergenerational Dementia Project Teresa Atkinson & Jennifer Bray The Association for Dementia Studies, University of Worcester