Bringing Political Science to Bear on Tropical Conservation
Document Type
Article
Department
Humanities, Social Sciences and the Arts (HMC)
Publication Date
12-2005
Abstract
With the renewed international emphasis on governance for sustainable development, political scientists wishing to have an impact on global environmental problems will find significant opportunities to collaborate with practitioners. These collaborations can be very rewarding, but academics should enter them with their eyes open to the associated challenges. Bridging the worlds of research and practice entails tensions between what is true according to the research, and what is possible given the constraints of specific organizations; between the problems that practitioners need solved and the puzzles that researchers find appealing; and, importantly, between the divergent cultures that shape the expectations and incentives of academics and their counterparts.
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© 2005 Springer
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DOI
10.1007/s10784-005-8331-1
Recommended Citation
Steinberg, Paul F. (2005) "Bringing Political Science to Bear on Tropical Conservation." International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law, Economics 5(4):395–404.
