Resource Planning: A Problem in Communication

Abstract

The leading authorities on gamesmanship recommend that scientists who find themselves intimidated by confreres in another field of knowledge extend an immediate invitation to visit their own bailiwick. By no devious route that is what I intend to do: my area of investigation is ecology, and where it emerges on the social plane it has some bearing on resource utilization, an area of human activity now potentially dominated by physicists. Furthermore, in alluding to communication in my title, I do not have in mind the transport of iron ore from the Ungava or long-distance telephone calls, but the difficulties of exchanging information and achieving verbal and working co-ordination. The incentives and the duties of the academic community are very great in this respect.

Yale Conservation Studies, Vol. 6, pp. 3–6 (1957). Reprinted by kind permission of the Editor.