Normative science

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ecosystems are preferable to human altered ones, that native species are preferable to nonnative species, and that higher biodiversity is preferable to lower biodiversity.[3][4]

In more general philosophical terms, normative science is a form of inquiry, typically involving a community of inquiry and its accumulated body of provisional knowledge, that seeks to discover good ways of achieving recognized aims, ends, goals, objectives, or purposes.[5][6] Many political debates revolve around arguments over which of the many "good ways" shall be selected.[7] For example, when presented as scientific information, words such as ecosystem health, biological integrity, and environmental degradation are typically examples of normative science because they each presuppose a policy preference and are therefore a type of policy advocacy.[4][8]

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References

  1. ^ Lackey, Robert T. (2004). "Normative science". Fisheries. American Fisheries Society. 29(7): 38–39.
  2. doi:10.1186/s12914-014-0036-5
  3. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00639.x
  4. ^
    doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01805.x
  5. JSTOR 2177252
  6. doi:10.1080/15487733.2005.11907969
  7. JSTOR 10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.48.3.310
  8. doi:10.1002/ieam.5630030312


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