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War and peace and conservation biology

机译：战争与和平与保护生物学

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Since its inception, conservation biology has been, like medicine, a mission-oriented field, its mission being to preserve the Earth's biodiversity. Unlike medicine, however, conservation biology has no regular, systematically employed mechanisms in place for monitoring the success or failure of its efforts. My appraisal of papers published in the first three issues of volume 13 of Conservation Biology indicates that the majority of research in the discipline yields more descriptions and recommendations than actual conservation achievements. This does not appear to be a problem of motivation or the quality of our science. We have made undeniable advances in our understanding of conservation biology, but this has not produced comparable conservation results, in part because the forces causing the extinction of species and the disruption of ecosystems often have little to do with biology. Have we undertaken a task whose completion lies beyond the power of our science and technology? In War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy used the failure of Napoleon's invasion of Russia to examine the idea that science (expertise) and reason simply cannot control the great events of the world, which are inherently too complex to be managed by these methods. The twentieth-century philosopher Isaiah Berlin largely agrees but takes a more moderate position: he explains why it is sometime possible to apply reason to the vast problems that confront us and achieve the desired results. By analogy, in conservation biology we can achieve conservation objectives, but we must give up the self-serving belief that an increase in our scientific knowledge by itself will always move us toward effective conservation. To help identify the conservation strategies that work, conservation biology must close critical feedback loops by emulating medicine and regularly monitoring the effectiveness of its research and recommendations and by understanding the place of its work in the life of the community. [References: 19]
机译：自成立以来，保护生物学一直像医学一样，是一个以任务为导向的领域，其任务是保护地球的生物多样性。但是，与医学不同，保护生物学没有定期的，系统地采用的机制来监测其努力的成败。我对《保护生物学》第13卷前三期中发表的论文的评价表明，该学科的大多数研究都比实际的保护成果提供了更多的描述和建议。这似乎不是动机或我们科学的质量问题。我们对保护生物学的理解无可否认地取得了进步，但这并没有产生可比的保护结果，部分原因是造成物种灭绝和生态系统破坏的力量通常与生物学无关。我们是否完成了一项超出我们科学和技术能力之外的任务？在《战争与和平》中，列夫·托尔斯泰用拿破仑入侵俄罗斯的失败来检验这样一种观念，即科学（专长）和理性根本无法控制世界的重大事件，这些事件本质上太复杂了，无法用这些方法来管理。二十世纪哲学家以赛亚·柏林（Isaiah Berlin）大致同意，但持较为温和的立场：他解释了为什么有时有理由将理性应用于我们面临的巨大问题并取得理想的结果。以此类推，在保护生物学中我们可以实现保护目标，但是我们必须放弃自我保护的信念，即我们自身科学知识的增长总会使我们走向有效的保护。为了帮助确定有效的保护策略，保护生物学必须通过模仿医学，定期监测其研究和建议的有效性以及了解其在社区生活中的位置来封闭关键的反馈回路。 [参考：19]

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