Tag Archives: science

Life in corrupt science: when metrics become targets

Posted on April 5, 2017 by

‘Publish or perish’. The overused phrase describing career aspects in today’s academia. Whereas day-to-day work is rarely quite as grim, we all learn early on that our performance as scientists is very much measured by the number of publications, citations, … Continue reading →

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Socially-acceptable conservation planning: how can we integrate biological and social values to improve conservation?

Posted on July 25, 2014 by

By Rachael Vorwerk, Amy Whitehead and Heini Kujala (This article was first published in the July 2014 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) Understanding how society perceives and values different areas is important for … Continue reading →

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Halting the spread of cane toads

Posted on May 27, 2014 by

By Reid Tingley & Darren Southwell Cane toads are one of the worst invasive species in Australia. Introduced to Queensland in 1935 as a biological control agent, the toads have spread at a formidable pace across northern Australia, and have had … Continue reading →

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Choose your cake and eat it too: A very QAECO morning tea

Posted on May 21, 2014 by

By Natasha Cadenhead How do academics forage at morning tea? Do sweets go extinct faster than savouries? Which cake should you eat? How much should you eat? How close should you be to the coffee? The exit? Yesterday we hosted … Continue reading →

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Adaptive management of kangaroos in Wyperfeld National Park

Posted on May 16, 2014 by

By Chris Jones, José Lahoz-Monfort, and Cindy Hauser There are many members of QAECO who work on projects incorporating adaptive management. This post describes an example of one such project lead by Cindy and José along with Yung En Chee, Brendan … Continue reading →

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QAECO’s tips for running a successful workshop

Posted on April 23, 2014 by

Our group runs a lot of workshops in many forms: structured decision making processes; expert elicitation; targeted analyses with many participants; brainstorming of broad issues; and everything in between. Collectively we’ve learnt a few dos and don’ts. In a previous post … Continue reading →

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What could be wrong with transparent conservation decision-making?

Posted on May 18, 2013 by

By Michael Bode (This article first appeared in the Spring 2013 newsletter of the Resource Modelling Association. The newsletter and society journal – Natural Resource Modelling – contain some great articles on modelling that contains both biological and economic processes). There is a … Continue reading →

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