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At the Crossroads of Conservation: Science, Ethics, and Policy

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Published October 24, 2024

During this engaging discussion period, Hoover Senior Fellow, Dominic Parker, and students tackle the emerging tools and challenges in maintaining research integrity while pursuing environmental protection. Discussion reveals growing tensions between pure research and activism, particularly regarding government funding and data access in conservation work. The session highlights a central challenge facing environmental scientists today: how to advance conservation through research while preserving the objectivity that gives their work credibility.

Dominic (Nick) Parker is the Ilene and Morton Harris Senior Fellow (adjunct) at the Hoover Institution and the Anderson-Bascom Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he has won several awards for research and teaching. He is a senior fellow at the Property Environment Research Center and a regular lecturer for the Ronald Coase Institute and the Elinor Ostrom Workshop.

Check out more from Dominic Parker:

  • Watch episodes from the series Renewing Indigenous Economies from Dominic Parker and Terry Anderson here.
  • Watch "Nonuse Rights: An Innovative Way to Conserve Natural Resources" featuring Dominic Parker here.
  • Read the Q&A with Dominic Parker on the untapped potential renewable energy on tribal lands here.

The opinions expressed in this video are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Hoover Institution or Stanford University. © 2024 by the Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University.