Understanding mental constructs of biodiversity: Implications for biodiversity management and conservation

By Anke Fischer, J. Young. 2007

309 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Social Psychology

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In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. S. Jennings
2. G. Woodward
3. Robert J. Whittaker
4. Peter J. Mumby
5. Will Steffen
6. Reinette Biggs

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. V. Devictor
2. Robert McMorran
3. S. Jennings
4. Andy Purvis
5. G. Woodward
6. Robert J. Whittaker
7. Calum Brown
8. Peter J. Mumby

In Social Psychology

1. Andy Purvis

Citations in the corpus

• Rewilding – A New Paradigm for Nature Conservation in Scotland? (2011, background): “It is perhaps most discernible in scientific arguments for biodiversity conservation, but normally remains implicit and so, at best, indefinitely and subjectively understood (Fischer & Young 2007).”
• Beyond scarcity: citizen science programmes as useful tools for conservation biogeography (2010, background): “Finally, value judgments from the general public are now recognized as essential instruments to improve design and communication of biodiversity policies (Miller, 2006; Evans et al., 2007; Fischer & Young, 2007; D’elia et al., 2008).”
• Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity (2014, background): “confusion over the use of the term ‘biodiversity’, which can simply mean species richness, but is often used for functional or ecosystem diversity, or more generally to represent the whole variety of life on Earth, sometimes with connotations of naturalness or intactness (Convention on Biological Di”