Improving transparency in conservation social science research to enhance quality, equity, and collaboration.

ABSTRACT: Recognition of the value of multidisciplinary research that bridges natural and social science perspectives has come with calls for conservation scientists to reflect critically on underlying assumptions and power relations involved in the production of knowledge and its application. We propose that improving transparency in conservation social science-around researchers' positionality, study limitations, and fieldwork challenges-is essential to and depends on enhanced reflexivity and can allow readers to assess research quality, foster ethical research, and support constructive dialogue and collaboration across subdisciplines of conservation science. We assessed gaps and opportunities for enhanced transparency based on an in-depth review of 39 papers on the social impacts of protected are

SUBMITTER: Moreau MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11959340 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature