
Conservation Science and Advocacy for a Planet in Peril
Speaking Truth to Power
- 1st Edition - August 18, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Dominick A. DellaSala
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 9 8 8 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 9 8 9 - 0
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- Covers personal accounts that bring science into policymaking, providing usable guidelines for those working to bridge this gap
- Includes the requisite information needed for effective communications and campaign strategies by sharing lessons learned
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SECTION 1: SCIENTISTS AS ADVOCATES: ADVOCACY SHOULD NOT BE A FOUR-LETTER WORD
1. The Nuts and Bolts of Science-Based Advocacy
Dominick A. DellaSala
2. When scientists are attacked: strategies for dissident scientists and whistleblowers
Derek Lee, Monica Bond, Chad Hanson
3. Sounding the Climate Alarm: Scientists and Politics
Franz Baumann
4. Science integrity and environmental decision-making in Canada: a fragile renaissance
Jeremy T. Kerr
5. Blowing the Whistle on Political Interference: The Northern Spotted Owl
Dominick A. DellaSala
SECTION 2: AN IMPERFECT MARRIAGE: POLICY AND SCIENCE
6. Overcoming the politics of endangered species listings
Noah Greenwald
7. Scientific Integrity and Advocacy: Keeping the Government Honest
Michael Halpern, Union of Concerned Scientists
8. Why advocate and how?
Robert M. Hughes, Amnis, Robert L. Vadas Jr., J. Hal Michael Jr., Beverly E. Law, Arthur C. Knutson, Jr., Dominick A. DellaSala, Jim Burroughs, and Hal Beecher
9. Climate Reality Leadership
Bill Bradbury
SECTION 3: THE POLITICS OF SCIENCE IN DECISION MAKING
10. Out of the Ivory Tower: Campaign Based Science Messaging for the Public
Rich McIntyre
11 - Essays from the Trenches of Science-based Activism
Joel Clement, Randi Spivak, and Jennifer Mamola
12. Shifting the Burden of Proof to Minimize Impacts During the Science-Policy Process
Kara A. Whittaker and Peter Goldman
13. To zero emissions and beyond? Oregon Stumbles Forward
Angus Duncan
14. The politics of conservation: Taking the biodiversity crisis to the streets
David Johns
15. When Science is Silenced: Scientists Fighting Back Against the Politicization of their Work.
Augusta C. F. Wilson
16. Speaking Truth to Power for the Earth
Dominick A. DellaSala
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 18, 2021
- No. of pages (Paperback): 450
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128129883
- eBook ISBN: 9780128129890
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