Robinson John G
Wildlife Conservation Society, 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10460, USA.
Conserv Biol. 2006 Jun;20(3):658-69. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00469.x.
In the 20 years since Conservation Biology was launched with the aim of disseminating scientific knowledge to help conserve biodiversity and the natural world, our discipline has hugely influenced the practice of conservation. But we have had less impact outside the profession itself and we have not transformed that practice into an enterprise large enough to achieve our conservation goals. As we look to the next 20 years, we need to become more relevant and important to the societies in which we live. To do so, the discipline of conservation biology must generate answers even when full scientific knowledge is lacking, structure scientific research around polices and debates that influence what we value as conservationists, go beyond the certitude of the biological sciences into the more contextual debates of the social sciences, engage scientifically with human-dominated landscapes, and address the question of how conservation can contribute to the improvement of human livelihoods and the quality of human life.
自《保护生物学》创刊以来的20年里，其宗旨是传播科学知识以帮助保护生物多样性和自然世界，我们这一学科对保护实践产生了巨大影响。但我们在专业领域之外的影响力较小，也未能将这种实践转变为一个规模足够大的事业，以实现我们的保护目标。展望未来20年，我们需要对我们所生活的社会变得更具相关性和重要性。为此，保护生物学学科必须即使在缺乏完整科学知识的情况下也能给出答案，围绕影响我们作为保护主义者所重视事物的政策和辩论来构建科学研究，超越生物科学的确定性，进入社会科学更具背景性的辩论，科学地参与人类主导的景观研究，并解决保护如何能够促进改善人类生计和人类生活质量这一问题。
