Department of Ecology, SLU, Box 7044, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden.
Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901 83, Umeå, Sweden.
Ambio. 2017 Oct;46(6):621-629. doi: 10.1007/s13280-017-0913-y. Epub 2017 Mar 15.
Conservation scientists must meet the sometimes conflicting demands of policy and science, but not necessarily at the same time. We analysed the policy and intra-scientific orientations of research projects on effects of stump extraction on biodiversity, and found shifts over time associated with these demands. Our results indicate that uncertainties related to both factual issues and human decisions are often ignored in policy-oriented reports and syntheses, which could give misleading indications of the reliability or feasibility of any conclusions. The policy versus intra-scientific orientation of the scientific papers generated from the surveyed projects varied substantially, although we argue that in applied research, societal relevance is generally more important than intra-scientific relevance. To make conservation science more socially relevant, there is a need for giving societal relevance higher priority, paying attention to uncertainties and increasing the awareness of the value of cross-disciplinary research considering human decisions and values.
保护科学家必须满足政策和科学有时相互冲突的要求，但不一定同时满足。我们分析了有关树桩采伐对生物多样性影响的研究项目的政策和内部科学方向，并发现随着时间的推移，这些需求发生了变化。我们的研究结果表明，政策导向的报告和综合分析中往往忽略了与事实问题和人类决策相关的不确定性，这可能会对任何结论的可靠性或可行性产生误导。尽管我们认为在应用研究中，社会相关性通常比内部科学相关性更为重要，但从调查项目中生成的科学论文的政策与内部科学方向差异很大。为了使保护科学更具社会相关性，需要更加重视社会相关性，关注不确定性，并提高对跨学科研究的认识，考虑人类决策和价值观。
