Article ID: CBB000651027

Masters and Servants: The Contrasting Roles of Scientists in Island Management (2003)

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This study examines how different scientific regimes have contributed differently to the way two Western Australian islands are managed. Rottnest Island and Garden Island are located off the coast of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. This paper contrasts the way science was conducted on Rottnest from the 1950s to 1970s, and this is contrasted with the way it was done on Garden Island in the 1970s and 1980s. On Rottnest, zoology and medicine were detached from the island management, yet impacted upon the island landscape. On Garden Island, ecology and geography were integrated with, and served, management. Differences in the social and political context of the times, and between the philosophical approaches and cultures of the scientists, are shown to have created different rôles for scientists in the management of the islands, and illustrate the on-going dialectic between two scientific cultures, one a culture of biomedical abstraction on Rottnest, and the other a culture of pragmatic holism on Garden Island.

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Description Concerning two Western Australian islands from the 1950s to the 1980s.


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Authors & Contributors
McAlpine, John
Schleper, Simone
Bleeker, Pieter
Lewis, Amanda E.
Freyne, David
Hide, Robin L.
Concepts
Ecology
Environmental protection
Natural resource management
Environmental sciences
Conservation of natural resources
Conservation biology
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
18th century
Places
United States
Australia
Papua New Guinea
Missouri (U.S.)
New Guinea
Greenland
Institutions
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)
United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) (Australia)
Australian Academy of Science
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