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Article: Coming to understanding: developing conservation through incremental learning in the Pacific Northwest.(Reprint)
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- Human Ecology
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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Published online: 20 July 2006
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Abstract Lessons in conservation are often seen as resulting from cycles of overexploitation and subsequent depletion of resources, followed by catastrophic consequences of shortage and starvation, and finally, development of various strategies, including privatization of the commons, to conserve remaining resource stocks. While such scenarios have undoubtedly occurred on many occasions, we suggest that they are not the only means by which people develop conservation practices and concepts. There are other pathways leading to ecological understanding and conservation, which act ...