Conservation biology: Reflecting the past

Conservation biology: past and present

Conservation biology, though rooted in older scientific, professional, and philosophical traditions, gained its contemporary definition only in the mid-1980s. Anyone seeking to understand the history and growth of conservation biology thus faces inherent challenges. The field has formed too recently to be viewed with historical detachment, and the trends shaping it are still too fluid to be eas...

Analysing the Stewardship Function in Botswana’s Health System: Reflecting on the Past, Looking to the Future

Background In many parts of the world, ongoing deficiencies in health systems compromise the delivery of health interventions. The World Health Organization (WHO) identified four functions that health systems need to perform to achieve their goals: Efforts to strengthen health systems focus on the way these functions are carried out. While a number of studies on health systems functions have be...

Reflecting on the past, looking to the future.

Conservation biology and the endarkenment.

Frederik Dalerum (2014) has nicely summarized what many of us consider the basic question of how conservation biologists should allocate their time in trying to deal with the existential threat to human civilization. How much should we devote to our usual activities—to research that may provide better insights into ways to preserve Earth’s biodiversity, or to promoting local or regional actions...

Directions in Conservation Biology

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