Making predictive ecology more relevant to policy makers and practitioners
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Making predictive ecology more relevant to policy makers and practitioners.
One of the aims of ecology is to aid policy makers and practitioners through the development of testable predictions of relevance to society. Here, we argue that this capacity can be improved in three ways. Firstly, by thinking more clearly about the priority issues using a range of methods including horizon scanning, identifying policy gaps, identifying priority questions and using evidence-ba...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0181