If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:envval:v:14:y:2005:i:2:p:241-250. You can help correct errors and omissions. Suggested CitationĪll material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. I will suggest some explanations and ramifications of these results that take into account the ecologist's professional situation. However, no bias was evident towards a conservationist or ecocentric environmental ethic such as suggested by the stereotype. The analysis revealed an abundance of value statements.

To obtain some answers I analysed over fifty randomly selected publications of ecologists for explicit and implicit value statements. To what extent and in what respects can ecologists be regarded as motivated by environmentalist values? What other values might contribute to their motivations? The answers to those questions have bearing on how policy makers perceive the input they receive from ecologists and it has long-term implications for the funding of ecological research. Ecologists tend to subscribe to this ideal, as do most natural scientists.

The popular stereotype of ecologists appears somewhat at odds with the ideal of the objective, detached, morally disinterested researcher.

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