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We have been hinting all along that ecology has a more prominent role to play in public policy debates than ever before. The multiple-scale and large-scale ecological changes that are tailored to large, multiple-scale networked ecological observations that we discussed in Chapter 6 should also be the focus of policy changes at multiple scales of governance — from local to global. Yet career ecologists have been frustrated at how little progress ecology as a science has made in turning the tide of environmental degradation and destruction. In this chapter we dive into this paradox by looking at the ecology of policy making itself and identifing matches and mismatches between ecological science and the complex ecology of politics.
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Sagarin, R., Pauchard, A. (2012). Ecology’s Renewed Importance in Policy. In: Observation and Ecology. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-230-3_9
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