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ArticleBioscience2023

Place-Based Bias in Environmental Scholarship Derived from Social-Ecological Landscapes of Fear.

Gabriel I Gadsden, Nigel Golden, Nyeema C Harris

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Article in Bioscience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The ecology of urban segregation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  2. Conceptualizing racial inequalities and injustice in social-ecological systems: A foundation for ecology of segregation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  5. Historical redlining is associated with disparities in wildlife biodiversity in four California cities.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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Gabriel I GadsdenApplied Wildlife Ecology (AWE) Lab, School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1170-9894
Nigel GoldenApplied Wildlife Ecology (AWE) Lab, School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
Nyeema C HarrisApplied Wildlife Ecology (AWE) Lab, School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5174-2205

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Historical perspectives (e.g., moments of social, political, and economic significance) are increasingly relevant for developing insights into landscape change and ecosystem degradation. However, the question of how to incorporate historical events into ecological inquiry is still under development, owing to the evolving paradigm of transdisciplinary thinking between natural science and the humanities. In the present article, we call for the inclusion of negative human histories (e.g., evictions of communities and environmental injustices) as important factors that drive landscape change and shape research questions relevant to environmental conservation. We outline the detrimental effects of conservationists not addressing negative human histories by likening this social phenomenon to the ecological concept of landscapes of fear, which describes how not acknowledging these histories produces a landscape that constrains where and how research is conducted by scientists. Finally, we provide three positive recommendations for scholars or practitioners to address the manifestation of historic place-based bias in ecological research. What we call the social-ecological landscapes of fear provides a conceptual framework for more inclusive practices in ecology to increase the success of environmental and conservation goals.

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conservationenvironmental justicehistorylandscape ecologypolitical ecology

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PMID36643594
PMCPMC9832956

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