When conservation research goes awry: A reply to Mascia and Mills (2018)

TY - JOUR

T1 - When conservation research goes awry

T2 - A reply to Mascia and Mills (2018)

AU - Lund, Jens Friis

AU - Bluwstein, Jevgeniy

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - We raise two points of contention with "When conservation goes viral: The diffusion of innovative biodiversity conservation policies and practices" in which Mascia and Mills make a case for "diffusion of innovation theory" as a way of understanding how conservation interventions spread, drawing on case studies from Tanzania and the Pacific. First, the conceptualization of the spread of CBNRM as the uptake of innovative policies through diffusion depoliticizes CBNRM and ignores existing social science scholarship on Tanzanian CBNRM. Second, the article's central claim of "diffusion" builds on inflated statistics on the spread of CBNRM in Tanzania.

AB - We raise two points of contention with "When conservation goes viral: The diffusion of innovative biodiversity conservation policies and practices" in which Mascia and Mills make a case for "diffusion of innovation theory" as a way of understanding how conservation interventions spread, drawing on case studies from Tanzania and the Pacific. First, the conceptualization of the spread of CBNRM as the uptake of innovative policies through diffusion depoliticizes CBNRM and ignores existing social science scholarship on Tanzanian CBNRM. Second, the article's central claim of "diffusion" builds on inflated statistics on the spread of CBNRM in Tanzania.

KW - Africa

KW - CBNRM

KW - Conservation

KW - Innovation

KW - Tanzania

U2 - 10.1111/conl.12461

DO - 10.1111/conl.12461

M3 - Comment/debate

AN - SCOPUS:85046267296

SN - 1755-263X

VL - 11

SP - 1

EP - 2

JO - Conservation Letters

JF - Conservation Letters

IS - 3

M1 - e12461

ER -