Science And Wicked Problems Flashcards
What is a wicked problem?
The difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete,contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize.
What do wicked problems require?
It requieres a multidisciplinary team to come up with solutions.
What issues arias in the conservation of dugongs?
Issues with biodiversity , cultural diveristy and food security.
What is happening now in terms of biodiversity ?
Current and projected extinction rates exceed geologically normal background rates by several orders of magnitude.
What are the orders of mammals are risk?
Order Microbiotheria, order proboscidea and order sirenia.
What was the first marine mammal extinct by men ?
Steller’s sea cow
Why are Sirenians at risk?
Low number of species, long-lived slow breeding, warm water habitats accessible to people, and their meat is very tasteful, they are not wilderness animals, they live very near to shores.
What is one if the things they need to know about duogongs?
What they eat : aquatic plant eaters, they have a very slow metabolism.
Age of the animals: lifespan similar to animals.
How they reproduce: first calf 7-17 years
What is the survival rate of dugongs to maintain population ?
It needs to be more than 95% of adult survival so the dugong can maintain its population.
What did sociologist found about dugongs?
Most countries in which dugongs that appear are poor. ( dugongs are more worthy dead than alive)
What is the biggest problem for dugongs?
They are killed by by-catch.
What problems exist for dugongs in queensland?
Agricultural polllution, vessel traffic, subsistence hunting, gill and shark netting.
Where is have been discovered that hunting dugongs its not affecting the population ?
Some indigenous australians the dugong is severly important to their culture and although their ratings are one of the highest in killing dugongs it appears by several studies It hasn’t the population .
What it needs to be done?
Reducing antropogenic mortality, alternativa livehoods and conserving their habitat.
