Geological conservation – yes please!

Duff, Keith

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2451.1985.tb00301.x

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“…Under the regulations, collectors required a permit and could only take away two fossils despite the presence of fish in their tens of thousands (from 1984 the number that could be collected was raised to ten). In response, Keith Duff (1985) of the NCC stated that only 10% of designated sites (about 150 in all) suffered similar limitations or restrictions, and that future exploration was ultimately a goal of conservation. He quoted Benton & Wimbledon (1985) who had recently expressed an aim: 'to encourage and participate in the systematic use and excavation of sites (but not their total removal) by professionals and responsible amateurs and to promote proper recording of finds and taphonomic information'.…”

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Collecting, conservation and conservatism: late twentieth century developments in the culture of British geology

Knell

2002

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The last three decades of the twentieth century saw a transformation of the place and influence in British society of two cultural themes: environmental conservation and the values of political conservatism. These are here used to examine cultural change in the science of geology at two levels of resolution. First, the micropolitics of the science are revealed through a study of collecting in an era of conservation. Here the scientific hegemony confronted the more populist and commercially driven wings of geology. This was a period of campaign and conflict, leading to the eventual accommodation of opposing views. The second section examines the macropolitics of the science's institutional infrastructure through a study of a science in a period of recession and under the control of an ideologically motivated Conservative government. The challenge for science was to acquire appropriate government patronage. Here patterns of decline and growth in the science are revealed, driven by supposedly 'external' factors. Both perspectives show how the notion of accountability became critical to the science at all levels, and how, in an era which saw the revolutionizing of mass communication, language became fundamental to the political progress of the science.

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Collecting, conservation and conservatism: late twentieth century developments in the culture of British geology

Knell

2002

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Geological conservation – yes please!

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Collecting, conservation and conservatism: late twentieth century developments in the culture of British geology

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