Reflections on monitoring: conclusions and ways forward

Abstract

This chapter concludes by discussing the book's aim of highlighting the possibilities of working across disciplines, including across ecological, technical, and social fields. Careful design of monitoring should include both understanding how cases differ from each other, where bias and errors may be introduced, and how monitoring may need to increasingly relate to the social context – the major influence on nature in the Anthropocene. How can interdisciplinary approaches, linking monitoring, social studies, and research, be undertaken? This final chapter discusses the different design features and considerations relevant to interdisciplinary monitoring and reflects on what this book has been able to cover in relation to a broader monitoring and social field.

Published in

Title: Monitoring Biodiversity : Combining Environmental and Social Data
Publisher: Routledge

SLU Authors

• Keskitalo, Carina

  • Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • Umeå University

• Allard, Anna

  • Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Ecology

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003179245-18
• ISBN: 978-1-032-01593-4
• eISBN: 978-1-003-17924-5

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