Empowering landscape ecology-connecting science to governance through design values

摘要: The relationship between science, design, local governance and values is explored using a Christchurch New Zealand case study. Arguments for greater use of design in science are reviewed, revealed as fundamentally different from being based upon rather than logic. role examined, also shown to be value based. This creates tensions with conventional logic approaches landscape science. A recently proposed model compared an alternative that emerges the recent experience preparing wetlands waterways strategy, which instead engaged process.