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shifting baseline syndrome

• 2021, Richard Fisher, Generational amnesia: The memory loss that harms the planet, BBC News (25 June 2021);

  One day, the fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly looked around at his contemporaries, and noticed something curious. Despite an objectively recorded long-term decline in certain fish populations, each generation of scientists seemed to be accepting the lower abundance and diversity they studied as their "baseline". [...]

  What this blindspot meant, Pauly argued in a short-but-influential paper, was that the scientists were failing to account fully for the slow creep of disappearing species, and each generation accepted the depleted ocean biodiversity they inherited as normal. He dubbed the effect "shifting baseline syndrome".

• 2000 April 12, National Research Council, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, Water Science and Technology Board, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Committee to Evaluate Indicators for Monitoring Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments, Ecological Indicators for the Nation, National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 25:

  […] in what has been called the "shifting baseline syndrome" (Pauly 1995). For example, Trautman (1981) described Ohio in the late 18th century as characterized by a "profusion of 'durable springs and small brooks,' both flowing throughout the year, and the great amount of bog, prairie, and swamp and forest lands which were covered with water during all or much of the year." The change in the distribution, availability, and quality of water in Ohio - and many other places throughout the world - since 1800 is dramatic and is an example of the shifting baseline syndrome. If the change had occurred in the past 20 years, it would have caused widespread dismay and concern, but because the change took 200 years (or before current environmental awareness), the baseline for comparison has shifted and the change seems acceptable.

• 2013 March 5, Ian D. Rotherham, Trees, Forested Landscapes and Grazing Animals: A European Perspective on Woodlands and Grazed Treescapes, Routledge, →ISBN, page 100:

  […] It is important to realise whether or not we suffer from shifting baseline syndrome, because if we make ecological models that relate to 'natural' conditions, they will have been programmed with erroneous starting points (Sheppard, 1995).

• 2022 September 20, Laurent Godet, Simon Dufour, Anne-Julia Rollet, The Baseline Concept in Biodiversity Conservation: Being Nostalgic or Not in the Anthropocene Era, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 52:

  ... shifting baseline syndrome The shifting baseline syndrome theory has met with widespread acceptance in the scientific community. A meta-analysis, conducted in 2019, indicates that 152 publications have been made on the topic, 82% of […]

• 2023 April 30, Richard C. Hoffmann, The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 51:

  ... shifting baseline syndrome, arises from the short professional lifespan of experiential observers, fishers or scientists, for whom conditions of their youth become personal benchmarks for subsequent assessments of change. The syndrome […]

• 2018 December 24, Navigating History: Economy, Society, Knowledge, and Nature: Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. C.A. Davids, BRILL, →ISBN, page 326:

  ... shifting baseline syndrome” to explain the lack of appreciation of the trends in bird diversity in the Netherlands in the long run. This idea has been suggested to characterize the fact that in their assessment of what happened to eco […]

• 2021 January 25, Michael Nagenborg, Taylor Stone, Margoth González Woge, Pieter E. Vermaas, Technology and the City: Towards a Philosophy of Urban Technologies, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 214:

  ... shifting baseline syndrome. It has been applied to issues of light pollution by Lyytimäki (2013), and is a term originating in ecological conservation research (Papworth, Rist, Coad, & Milner-Gulland, 2009). Lyytimäki (2013, p. e46) […]

• 2013 August 8, Patrick Newbery, Kevin Farnham, Experience Design: A Framework for Integrating Brand, Experience, and Value, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

  ... shifting baseline syndrome and describes it as followsZ: This condition . . . shifting baseline syndrome . . . refers to how we become used to whatever state of affairs is true when we are born, or when we first look at a situation. His […]

• 2021 May 6, Simone Ferracina, OE Case Files, Vol. 01, punctum books, →ISBN, page 284:

  ... shifting baseline syndrome” emerged in the 1990s to describe the slipping definition of a “healthy” ecosystem. Daniel Pauly was the first among ecologists to describe the phenomenon. He observed that each generation of marine scientists […]

• 2022, Sarah M Hamylton, Pat Hutchings, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Coral Reefs of Australia: Perspectives from Beyond the Water's Edge, CSIRO PUBLISHING, →ISBN, page 279:

  ... shifting baseline syndrome', where each new generation views the condition of nature as pristine, even though it has been long preceded by generations of human impact and degradation [28]. The shifting baseline syndrome can lead […]

• 2022 April 22, Christian Kiffner, Monica L. Bond, Derek E. Lee, Tarangire: Human-Wildlife Coexistence in a Fragmented Ecosystem, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 130:

  ... shifting baseline syndrome', because as a result lower targets for 'normality' are consistently set. This shifting baseline syndrome bedevils ecologists and conservationists because they suffer from a paucity of early studies to compare […]

• 2003 April 24, Michael L. Rosenzweig, Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 178:

  ... shifting baseline syndrome is far from trivial and, like many great scientific insights, it took genius to notice. Pauly became aware of the shifting baseline syndrome after hearing hundreds of fish stories. Each described large catches […]

• 2021, Lisa Jones, The Role of Shifting Baseline Syndrome in Conservation: Linked Local Ecological Knowledge and Biological Datasets:

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• 2018, Sean Berger, Historical Ecology and Shifting Baseline Syndrome in the Kawartha Lakes, Ontario:

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• (Can we date this quote?), Arulingam, Indika, Nigussie, Likimyelesh, Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali, Debevec, Liza, Youth participation in small-scale fisheries, aquaculture and value chains in Africa and the Asia-Pacific, CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems, page 37:

  ... shifting baseline syndromes,” where fishers of different ages perceive the environment differently. The altered (less productive) state of an ecosystem is perceived as “normal” by younger fishers, not having interacted with it in any […]

• 2021 September 1, Sylvie Albert, Manish Pandey, Performance Metrics for Sustainable Cities, Routledge, →ISBN:

  ... shifting baseline syndromes when considering environmental changes and how to evaluate them. State of the art: ecosystems, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and integrated approaches In urban areas, there is a lack of sufficient […]

• 2008 July 11, Jon Norberg, Graeme Cumming, Complexity Theory for a Sustainable Future, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 156:

  ... shifting baseline syndromes ( Pauly 1995 ) and preparing systems to cope with crisis . Understanding the system involves learning how actions and endogenous feedbacks between system variables affect the future dynamics of the sys- tem […]

• 2004, “Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 372:

  ... shifting baseline syndromes (Arlinghaus, Mehner 2003b) or environmental generational amnesia (Turner et al. 2004): it has been proposed that with an increasing degree of industrialisation and urbanisation of societies and associated […]

shifting baseline theory

• 2011 April 11, Leonard W. Poon, Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, Understanding Well-Being in the Oldest Old, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 55:

  ... shifting baseline theory. Relative deprivation theory maintains that a sense of deprivation is based on a comparison with the average older person (Allen et al., 2007). Again, the shifting baseline theory claims that the perception of […]

• 2016 March 9, Jennifer Munroe, Edward J. Geisweidt, Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts: A Field Guide to Reading and Teaching, Routledge, →ISBN:

  ... shifting baseline theory as an impetus to study the past and act decisively in the present; in her passionate view, the past's value is partly that it can shock us into realizing “the way things were”—that its (to us) apparently wildly […]

• 2013 May 7, Lisa-ann Gershwin, Stung!: On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 263:

  ... shifting baseline theory.” This concept refers to how our expectations of what healthy ecosystems look like have shifted over time, essentially lulling us into a false sense of security. Because we are familiar only with what we see […]

• 2021, Ruth Mostern, The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 18:

  ... Shifting baseline theory suggests that one challenge of protecting the environment is that, given the scale of human life spans, people have a poor conception of the environmental impact of social activity because expectations shift […]