Ecology Best Practice - Charles Meredith, Biosis Research

Charles Meredith was asked to sit on a panel for discussion of best practice and introduced this session with the following short presentation, identifying two key points. First Charles identified the fact that courts will only usually apply existing practice, so the real challenge for the ecological profession is to move this forward, especially given a great deal of inertia in the system. Current best practice is only good practice now, rather than what may be necessary best practice in future. Charles also identified the importance of consequences as a driver for best practice. A great failure of the environmental system is that there are often no consequences for poor work. Esablishing standards to achieve best practice is best done through a robust appeal process that involves the public to a great extent.

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