The Long and the Short of the 'View Thing': A Response to: Gunderson and Folke 2000. Toward a 'science of the long view'

Abstract

"It certainly is high-time that additional emphasis was placed on the need for studies, of any length, that are congruent with the 'length' (or 'dimensions') of the subject phenomena. It is time, in fact, for a concerted opposition by intellectual consortia such as Conservation Ecology to the institutional and other control-obsessed elements in academia and 'corporatia' that consciously or unconsciously plan for still-born and vacant exercises that are prematurely terminated by the arbitrary boundaries of summer breaks or granting bodies."