2. Gathering and assessing pieces of evidence
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Finding and assessing evidence is core to making effective decisions. The three key elements of assessing any evidence are the rigour of the information, the trust in the reliability and objectivity of the source, and the relevance to the question under consideration. Evidence may originate from a range of sources including experiments, case studies, online information, expert knowledge (including local knowledge and Indigenous ways of knowing), or citizen science. This chapter considers how these different types of evidence can be assessed.
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2022-12-06
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Transforming Conservation: A Practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making, 2022, pp.31-74
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9781800648562
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Open Book Publishers
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31
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74
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Transforming Conservation: A Practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making
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©2022 William J. Sutherland. Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapter’s authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the text; to adapt the text for non-commercial purposes of the text providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: William J. Sutherland, Transforming Conservation: A Practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0321
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