Catherine Wallace: Reading

Catherine Collins

An integrative review of 121 recent studies on collecting and utilising local ecological knowledge (LEK) for fisheries science and management suggests that insufficient attention is given either to conceptualising LEK or to the critical issue of how LEK is defined. Elements from knowledge management guided the analysis. Résumé : Une revue intégrant 121 études récentes traitant de la collecte et...

Catherine Ashcraft

Decision making for natural resource management, such as forest management, park management, and marine habitat management, requires complex and science-intensive balancing acts that weigh human and environmental considerations. These management decisions are characterized by both the potential for substantial gains and the risk of negative environmental consequences. Despite the inherent uncer...

An Introduction to Reading Wallace Stevens as a Poet of the Human Spirit

Wallace Stevens is one of the most perplexing of the major modern poets. His poetry, as even his most ardent admirers agree, is very difficult to follow, and his personal life cuts against the grain of commonplace beliefs about the lives of modern poets. Stevens was neither a bohemian, nor a drunk, nor a professor. In fact he was a successful insurance lawyer in Connecticut, and became a vice p...

Catherine Tallon-Baudry

What’s to be done? Changing the international classifications enshrined in UN schedules would be difficult, suggests Nutt, but there are things that individual governments could do to help neuroscience, such as giving hospitals a general permission to use banned substances, the same way as UK hospitals are already allowed to use heroin. Amanda Feilding, founder and director of the Beckley Found...

William Wallace (1791-1837).