Minerva, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Dec. 12, 2024
Abstract In the face of enduring environmental decline, ecologists are continuously exploring new ways to improve relevance their research and address nature conservation issues. Hoping for more relevant solutions than former species-centered conservation, some have mapped ecosystems services they deliver human societies. Maps offer crucial, but understudied, relevance-making tools. By proposing a relational conceptualisation relevance, I demonstrate that maps can make issues simultaneously irrelevant conservation. two mapping projects conducted at European Union level by Working Group Mapping Assessment Ecosystems Services French regional scale Laboratoire d’Écologie Alpine, investigate how (ir)relevance ecosystem is enacted through different modes. successively show that: employed re-orient toward social issues, were constrained available quantified data (mode A); used implement biopolitical approach decide which protect, yet grappled with imprecision B); engaged stakeholders in map development, had excessive adjustments align demands C). conclude arguing exemplify an automation where conditioned technical feasibility Ultimately, article contributes scholarship advancing concept irrelevance, operationalising study modes demonstrating inherently process.
Language: Английский