Office of Environment and Heritage New South Wales (OEH), W001, University of New England, Trevenna Road, Armidale, New South Wales (NSW), 2351, Australia.
School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2351, Australia.
Environ Manage. 2019 Feb;63(2):215-232. doi: 10.1007/s00267-018-01131-w. Epub 2019 Jan 11.
Most conservation research aims to inform management of environmental challenges, but scientific evidence is used inconsistently in environmental programmes and practice. We used semi-structured retrospective interviews to ask 12 environmental scientists and 14 practitioners (land managers, park rangers, project managers and planners from natural resource management agencies) about factors that facilitated and hindered the use of scientific input during 15 environmental projects. We used the common factors from interviews to develop a process model describing how scientific input informs programmes and practice. The model emphasised the social dimensions of environmental projects which are often overlooked when these projects are planned, managed and evaluated. It highlighted the pivotal role of relationships in achieving outcomes which include creating practical, useful products and tools, and robust, credible and trusted evidence. By clarifying the process of how scientific knowledge informs environmental programmes and practice, the model enabled us to provide guidance about how to undertake transdisciplinary work and suggest indicators to track progress. Although derived from environmental projects, the guidance is likely to apply to other fields, particularly where different disciplines work together.
大多数保护研究旨在为环境挑战的管理提供信息，但科学证据在环境计划和实践中并没有得到一致的应用。我们使用半结构化的回顾性访谈，询问了 12 名环境科学家和 14 名从业者（来自自然资源管理机构的土地管理者、公园管理员、项目经理和规划师），了解在 15 个环境项目中促进和阻碍科学投入使用的因素。我们使用访谈中的常见因素来开发一个过程模型，描述科学投入如何为方案和实践提供信息。该模型强调了环境项目的社会层面，而这些项目在规划、管理和评估时往往被忽视。它突出了关系在实现包括创造实用、有用的产品和工具以及可靠、可信和值得信赖的证据在内的成果方面的关键作用。通过阐明科学知识为环境方案和实践提供信息的过程，该模型使我们能够提供关于如何进行跨学科工作的指导，并提出跟踪进展的指标。虽然该指导是从环境项目中得出的，但它可能适用于其他领域，特别是在不同学科合作的情况下。
