From ignorance to evidence? The use of programme evaluation in conservation: Evidence from a Delphi survey of conservation experts
From ignorance to evidence? The use of programme evaluation in conservation: Evidence from a Delphi survey of conservation experts
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10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.05.062
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发表时间：
2016-09-15
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8.7
通讯作者：
Kontoleon, Andreas
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作者：
Curzon, Hannah Fay;Kontoleon, Andreas
关于保护政策执行情况的证据基础中持续存在的差距给保护政策领域带来了压力，要求其采用“最佳实践”方案评估方法。这些方法解释了反事实，并能够将养护政策与具体的可观察到的环境和社会影响之间的因果关系归因于这些方法。尽管面临这种压力，但使用这种方法的情况仍然很少。本文使用德尔菲法首次系统地评估了保护从业者对于采用严格的政策影响评估方法的明显犹豫背后的原因。德尔福的研究包括对保护政策专家进行的两份在线问卷调查。目前的结果证实，在保护中使用严格的影响评估方法仍然非常有限，但至关重要的是，这并不是因为自然资源保护者对这些方法或其优势一无所知。事实上，正在作出相当大的努力来制定和改进证据标准，但这些努力在很大程度上受到与资金和时间有关的巨大限制的阻碍，这意味着即使是初级评价也很难实现。这项德尔福研究的结果使我们能够就如何在保护实践中更广泛地接受和实施影响评估研究提供更现实的建议。(C)2016爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
Persistent gaps in the evidence base regarding the performance of conservation policies has put pressure on the conservation policy field to adopt 'best practice' programme evaluation methods. These are methods that account for the counterfactual and are able to attribute causality between a conservation policy and specific observable environmental and social impacts. Despite this pressure, use of such methods continues to be rare. This paper uses the Delphi technique to provide the first systematic assessment of the reasons behind the apparent hesitation of conservation practitioners to adopt rigorous policy impact evaluation methods. The Delphi study consisted of two online questionnaires conducted on conservation policy experts. The results presented confirm that the use of rigorous impact evaluation methods in conservation is still very limited but this, crucially, is not because conservationists are ignorant of these methods or their advantages. In fact, considerable effort is being made to develop and improve evidence standards but these efforts have largely been thwarted by large financial and time related constraints that mean even elementary evaluations are hard to achieve. The results from this Delphi study allow us to provide more realistic recommendations on how impact evaluation studies can be more widely embraced and implemented in conservation practice. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.