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Lessons from Palau to end Parachute Science in International Conservation Research

Description:
Conservation science is having a reckoning with parachute science. In the parachute science models, scientists drop into a foreign country with preconceived notions, seeking to validate their assumptions without genuine engagement with local people, ideas, epistemologies, methodologies, and knowledges, and leave without giving back to the place from which they extracted.
Display date:
2022
Location:
Palau
Collections:
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Publisher:
Wiley
Content partner:
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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