Introduction: Moving Beyond the ′Rational Actor′ in Environmental Governance and Conservation

Marine Conservation: Moving Beyond Malthus

A new study has shown that maximum overfishing of coral reefs occurs among countries at intermediate levels of socio-economic development; can managers and policy makers help countries dependent on these ecosystems avoid the resulting poverty traps?

Moving beyond evidence-free environmental policy

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org I seems obvious that the development and implementation of environmental policy should be based on the best available scientific evidence. However, such evidence is often highly uncertain and inherently contestable. Balancing diverse scientific information input poses serious challenges to policy makers even where broad scientific c...

Risking Environmental Justice: Culture, Conservation, and Governance at Calakmul, Mexico

1 Introduction : The Business of Global Environmental Governance

Better governance in academic health sciences centres: moving beyond the Olivieri/Apotex Affair in Toronto.

The Toronto experience suggests that there may be several general lessons for academic health sciences complexes to learn from the Olivieri/Apotex affair (OAA) regarding the ethics, independence, and integrity of clinical research sponsored by for profit enterprises. From a local perspective, the OAA occurred when there already was a focus on the complex and changing relationships among the Uni...