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  1. Feb 2021

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  2. Apr 2020
    1. Indeed, participation methods—such as referenda and public hear-ings—often seem to be employed simply in recognition of a need to involvethe public in some way, assuming that involvement is an end in itself, ratherthan a means to an end

      this seems to be an echo of the first two weeks readings about the social ecological traps adn participation ladder.

  3. Mar 2020
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    1. the identification of stakeholders who do not interact well with one another.

      this is interesting I never really considered that some stakeholders may need to be separated in order to be productive.

    1. Local commercial interests also make valuable partners.

      this is interesting that this it the first time any paper we have read brings up local commercial interests as a part of the process or a possible stakeholder.

    1. it's funny that his is the first paper to bring up the involvement of local commercial interests. Up to this point every paper discusses the community members but rarely do they speak to the industries that utilize the natural resources

  5. Feb 2020
    1. difficulties of organizing a representative and accountable citizens’ group in the face of futility, alienation, and distrus

      I think this is a powerful point that many scientist can actually increase this feeling because we tend to focus our communication to our scholarly peers and frequently are not great at communication with the lay person.

    1. Hurricane Katrina

      This was another example that reminds me of the Chernobyl sheep farming paper last week that the government was not disseminating the information after the natural disaster properly. They lacked communication with the people who were in the most need of help. This caused a similar distrust of the government and what they were doing versus what they were promising.

    2. inadequate

      This probably is part of the problem with the command and control technique from the last article. The fact that we as conservationist are trying to control an complex ecosystem with a variety of systems and timelines within each system sets us up to be inadequate at best in the predictions of what will progress.

    3. human exemptionalism

      Human exemptionalism - (uncountable) The belief that the relationship between humans and the natural environment is unimportant because humans are "exempt" from environmental forces and capable of adapting via cultural change.

    4. humanexceptionalism

      Human exceptionalism” is a term I use to describe both sides of the unique nature of man. On one hand, we have unique value and only we should possess rights