[PCA] NEWS: 'New normal' approach to conservation comes under fire

[Kwong, Olivia]

http://news.mongabay.com/2014/1202-hong-novel-ecosystems.html#sthash.2e8v723o.LMNJFKf2.dpbs

'New normal' approach to conservation comes under fire
By: Jose Hong
December 02, 2014
New study faults adaptive 'Novel Ecosystems' concept with ignoring true
values of biodiversity, restoration

Over the past few years a new conservation approach known as the "novel
ecosystems" concept has been slowly gathering steam in science, media, and
policy-making circles. Based on pragmatism, it presents itself as a way
forward in a world where irreversible ecosystem change is inevitable. It
holds that rather than vainly trying to restore disturbed ecosystems back
to their original states, we should be managing them as the new normal,
especially if they continue to provide similar ecosystem services to
people. However, it has come under vicious attack from a paper recently
released in Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

See the link above for the full article text. If you have access, the paper
in Trends in Ecology and Evolution can be found at
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534714001578 and more
recently a response to that article was published in the same journal at
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534714002018
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