Beyond Baselines: Rethinking Priorities for Ocean Conservation
In 1995, Daniel Pauly identified a "shifting baselines syndrome" (SBS). Pauly was concerned that scientists measure ecosystem change against their personal recollections of the past and, based on this decidedly short-term view, mismanage fish stocks because they tolerate gradual and increm...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Resilience Alliance
2009-06-01
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| Series: | Ecology and Society |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art14/ |