Carl Safina—Provide your audience with information they care about

TY - JOUR

T1 - Carl Safina—Provide your audience with information they care about

AU - Burger, Joanna

AU - Greenberg, Michael

AU - Lowrie, Karen

AU - Safina, Carl

N1 - Funding Information: This work was funded by the DOE (DE‐FC01‐06EW07053) through the Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP) and the NIEHS Center of Excellence (NIEHS P30‐ES005022). Funding Information: Carl Safina earned a PhD in Ecology and Evolution from Rutgers University while he worked as a Manager of the Scully Audubon Sanctuary on Long Island, and then started National Audubon Society's Living Oceans Program. His focus broadened quickly to the conservation and preservation of marine organisms and ecosystems, founding the Blue Ocean Institute. From his early service as a Member of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Mid‐Atlantic Fisheries Management Council, he recognized the importance of changing the paradigm of U.S. fisheries management from a focus on exploitation to a focus on recovering depleted marine populations. This required re‐focusing risk communication from an emphasis on reducing exploitation of living marine resources to an emphasis on demonstrating the economic and social benefits of more aggressive ocean management for fish population recovery. Dr. Safina has a unique ability to foster dialogue around important environmental issues. His perspective is that information alone does not change minds, and that individuals filter information through their values and cultural perspectives. His conservation efforts and writing won him a MacArthur “genius” Award, a Pew Fellowship, a Guggenheim, and a National Science Foundation Fellowship. He has book awards from Orion, Lannan, and the National Academies, as well as John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb Medals. His evocative essays and books provide strategic approaches to solving environmental problems. He was listed as one of the 100 top conservationists of the 20th century (Audubon Magazine). He has taught at Yale University. He founded the not‐for‐profit “Safina Center” at Stony Brook University, where he is the inaugural holder of the Carl Safina Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity. The name typifies his approach to risk communication.

PY - 2022/11

Y1 - 2022/11

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U2 - 10.1111/risa.14056

DO - 10.1111/risa.14056

M3 - Editorial

C2 - 36625057

AN - SCOPUS:85145955943

SN - 0272-4332

VL - 42

SP - 2525

EP - 2530

JO - Risk Analysis

JF - Risk Analysis

IS - 11

ER -