School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
School of Earth, Atmospheric, and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Conserv Biol. 2022 Dec;36(6):e13929. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13929. Epub 2022 Jul 27.
Successful management of invasive plants (IPs) requires the active participation of diverse communities across land tenures. This can be challenging because communities do not always share the views of scientists and managers. They may directly disagree, have alternative views, or be unwilling to manage IPs. Reviews of IP social science identify opportunities to better understand the role of cultural processes and everyday practices to address these challenges. To scale up and leverage the insights of existing qualitative social science IP research, we used meta-ethnography to unlock accounts and interpretations of lay perspectives. Meta-ethnography is a form of qualitative research synthesis increasingly used beyond its origins in health and education to produce interpretive syntheses of an area of research. In the 7 phases of meta-ethnography, we systematically identified and synthesized 19 qualitative articles pertinent to lay experience and knowledge of IPs in diverse settings. Action and meaning regarding IPs were influenced by 6 meta-themes in personal and social life: dissonance, priorities, difference, agency, responsibility, and future orientations. Through descriptions and examples of each meta-theme, we demonstrated how the meta-themes are higher level structuring concepts across the qualitative research that we analyzed and we retained grounding in the in-depth qualitative research. We characterized the meta-themes as leverage points and tensions by which we reframed lay people in terms of capacity for reflective IP management rather than as obstacles. The meta-ethnography synthesis shows how leverage points and tensions emerge from everyday life and can frame alternative and meaningful starting points for both research and public engagement and deliberation regarding IP management. These insights are not a panacea, but open up new space for reflective and mutual consideration of how to effectively navigate often complex IP problems and address conservation and social and livelihood issues in dynamic social and physical environments.
成功管理入侵植物（IP）需要跨越土地所有权的各种社区的积极参与。这可能具有挑战性，因为社区并不总是与科学家和管理者的观点一致。他们可能直接不同意，有不同的观点，或者不愿意管理 IP。对 IP 社会科学的回顾确定了更好地理解文化过程和日常实践作用的机会，以应对这些挑战。为了扩大和利用现有定性 IP 社会科学研究的见解，我们使用元民族志来解锁和解释非专业人士的观点。元民族志是一种定性研究综合方法，除了其在健康和教育领域的起源之外，越来越多地用于产生对研究领域的解释性综合。在元民族志的 7 个阶段中，我们系统地确定并综合了 19 篇与不同背景下非专业人士对 IP 的经验和知识相关的定性文章。个人和社会生活中关于 IP 的行动和意义受到 6 个元主题的影响：不和谐、优先级、差异、能动性、责任和未来取向。通过每个元主题的描述和例子，我们展示了元主题如何在我们分析的定性研究中是更高层次的结构概念，并保留了对深入定性研究的基础。我们将元主题描述为杠杆点和紧张点，通过这些杠杆点和紧张点，我们从反映 IP 管理的能力角度重新构建非专业人士，而不是将其视为障碍。元民族志综合表明，杠杆点和紧张点如何从日常生活中出现，并为研究和公众参与以及关于 IP 管理的审议提供替代和有意义的起点。这些见解不是灵丹妙药，但为如何在动态的社会和物理环境中有效地应对经常复杂的 IP 问题以及解决保护和社会及生计问题提供了新的思考空间。
