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challenges because many students were included in these early studies and some are
now leading the research.

29.8 The Future Needs for Integrating Multiple

Value Systems

Golley's research contributions helped to develop a wider appreciation of ecological
and cultural values. Over several decades other professional ecologists, including
many of his former students, changed their personal value systems and modifi ed
their self-defi ned academic, non-governmental organizational, or governmental
agency roles. Like Golley, they also actively supported a need to test ecological
ideas by getting involved in applied problems, and in generating long-term data to
test emerging concepts. These ecologists continue to support the emerging recogni-
tion that long-term, site-based research in many different locations can help conser-
vationists and environmentalists meet the growing challenges involved in Earth
stewardship.
The Earth Stewardship initiative recently begun by the ESA (Power and Chapin
2009 ; Chapin et al. 2011 , 2015 in this volume [Chap. 12 ] ), has deep roots that grew
over several decades (MacIntosh 1987 ; Callicott 2015 ). Greater integration of envi-
ronmental education to consider diverse, culturally important, non-market values in
decision making will need to expand learning of environmental ethics (Rozzi 1999 ,
2013 ; Palmer 2012 ). These efforts increasingly are effective at the international
level with more online multi-lingual and open-access journals, although the distri-
bution and access in the developing world is still not equitable. This imbalance
affects the long-term capacity to sustain biodiversity that is often both dispropor-
tionately high and under increasing risks in many tropical countries and other devel-
oping regions. The need to help create new partnerships, is an ongoing challenge for
professional societies, non-governmental organizations, and universities. The num-
ber of people interested in resolving current environmental issues has increased but
this growth still requires collaboration regarding the pluralistic view of ecology in
the decades ahead.

29.9 Conclusion

Frank Golley's many contributions linked ecosystem science, landscape ecology,
and environmental ethics. His insights continue to provide valuable perspectives on
the need for long-term, multi-cultural appreciation of the integrity of natural and
human-dominated ecosystems. Major challenges remain. Creating wider under-
standing of the current knowledge derived from international long-term research is
important. Increased environmental literacy and implementation of new insights