The Forest Manager's Entomological Dream
| العنوان: | The Forest Manager's Entomological Dream |
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| المؤلفون: | Kenneth Graham |
| المصدر: | The Forestry Chronicle. 46:44-48 |
| بيانات النشر: | Canadian Institute of Forestry, 1970. |
| سنة النشر: | 1970 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Resource (project management), Action (philosophy), Relation (database), Ecology, Forestry, Context (language use), Relevance (information retrieval), Sociology, Data science, Positive action, Term (time), Task (project management) |
| الوصف: | Decision-making in insect pest management requires a large resource of information for predicting, evaluating and interpreting causes of insect aggressions, and funds of information on alternatives between no action and various courses of positive action. The task of searching out relevant information for these purposes is immensely complex, and relevance is difficult to evaluate when seen only in the short term context which clamors for "action now".Research is conducted in two philosophically different ways. The more usual approach is technique-oriented and sifts extensively for the hidden truths of nature. Then the facts are surveyed for possible, and often unpredicted applications. Diverse motives spur an investigator on. Often it appears that he is unclear of the full relevance of his own effort in relation to the problem he hopes to solve. This is part of the price to be paid in the course of gaining factual revelations which are to be directly applicable to pest management, and for the information which assists other researchers in solving problems. The other approach in research reaches out to a speculated goal of manipulating nature in a specifically defined way. The obstacles are envisioned more clearly and attacked more narrowly and intensely. This is called "mission-oriented" research. It often involves more speculation and "intuition", circumventing broad exploration, but is capable of attaining some goals which would be scarcely attainable by the free-directional approach. Both philosophical approaches are complementary in solving problems.There is some justification in assertions that much of research lacks clear relevancy for forest insect pest management. Sometimes there appears no other reason for an undertaking than that it is a popular topic of the moment. However, the broad uncovering of new scientific territory in this way yields much that can be translated into action. Researchers might more often invest their talents in mission-oriented research which preconceives a possible workable goal more explicitly and clearly, using scientific speculation about the working of a facet of nature, then narrowing the experiments to test for workability. |
| تدمد: | 1499-9315 0015-7546 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::0cd0bd4b2a301f0468f72cd2de330fe4Test https://doi.org/10.5558/tfc46044-1Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........0cd0bd4b2a301f0468f72cd2de330fe4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14999315 00157546 |
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