Society Is Ready for a New Kind of Science-Is Academia?

Bonnie L Keeler1, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer1, Anne D Guerry1

  • 1Bonnie L. Keeler (keeler@umn.edu) is with the Natural Capital Project at the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, in St. Paul. Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer and Anne D. Guerry are with the Natural Capital Project at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment in Stanford, California. ADG is also affiliated with the Natural Capital Project at the School of Environment and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington, in Seattle. Prue F. E. Addison is with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science, Department of Zoology, at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Charles Bettigole, Ingrid C. Burke, and Brad Gentry are with the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. Lauren Chambliss and Carrie Young are with the Department of Communication and Alexander J. Travis is with the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York. Chris T. Darimont is with the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria, and with the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, in British Columbia, Canada. Doria R. Gordon is with the Environmental Defense Fund, in Washington, DC, and the Department of Biology at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, Florida. Jessica Hellmann is with the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, in St. Paul. Peter Kareiva is with the Institute on Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles. Steve Monfort is with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, in Washington, DC. Lydia Olander and Tim Profeta are with the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina. Hugh P. Possingham is with The Nature Conservancy, in Arlington, Virginia, and with the Center of Excellence for Enviromental Decisions at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia. Carissa Slotterback is with the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis. Eleanor Sterling is with the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, New York. Tamara Ticktin is with the Department of Botany at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Bhaskar Vira is with the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute, and the Department of Geography, at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.

Bioscience
|March 31, 2018
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