Letter to the Editor: Response to Global soil science research collaboration in the 21st century: Time to end helicopter research by Minasny et al
Letter to the Editor: Response to Global soil science research collaboration in the 21st century: Time to end helicopter research by Minasny et al
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致编辑的信：Minasny 等人对 21 世纪全球土壤科学研究合作的回应：是时候结束直升机研究了
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10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114559
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发表时间：
2020
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6.1
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Bates I
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Bates I
Budiman Minasny及其同事（Minasny et al., 2020）发表了关于土壤科学直升机研究的精深文章，Geoderma的编辑也因其新政策而受到祝贺，该政策规定，报告原始数据收集研究的论文应包括来自相关国家的作者。根据我们共同的经验，作为在撒哈拉以南非洲开展土壤科学研究的合作研究人员，我们认识到这个问题的重要性及其对研究合作和发展伙伴关系的可持续性的更广泛影响。我们是CEPHaS项目的合作者，这是一个由英国政府的全球挑战研究基金资助的项目，该项目致力于发展土壤物理学、地球物理学、水文地质学和统计学方面的能力，以研究保护性农业，这是一套旨在提高土壤和作物在气候变化下的适应能力的干预措施。CEPHaS包括来自赞比亚、津巴布韦、马拉维和英国的科学家——土壤科学家、农学家、农业经济学家、社会科学家、地球物理学家、水文地质学家和统计学家。自2017年10月以来，我们一直在合作这个项目，我们中的许多人在一起工作的时间比这更长。在这封信中，我们分享了我们的经验、实践和政策的一些方面，我们认为这些方面有助于促进更公平的研究伙伴关系。总之，我们认为直升机研究的问题只能通过发展真正的伙伴关系来解决，在这种伙伴关系中，不允许南北之间的全球权力和财富不对称扭曲研究议程，也不允许阻止各方的利益、机会和贡献得到尊重的公平合作。这需要致力于加强能力，并需要研究人员、他们的机构和研究资助者的长期参与。
Budiman Minasny and colleagues (Minasny et al., 2020) are to be congratulated for their incisive article about helicopter research in soil science, as are the editors of Geoderma for their new policy such that papers reporting research with primary data collection should include authors from the countries concerned. On the basis of our shared experience, as collaborating investigators working on soil science research in sub-Saharan Africa, we recognize the importance of this issue and its wider implications for sustainability of both research collaboration and development partnerships. We are collaborators on the CEPHaS project, a project funded by the UK Government’s Global Challenges Research Fund, which addresses the development of capacity in soil physics, geophysics, hydrogeology and statistics to study conservation agriculture, a suite of interventions aimed at improving resilience of soils and crops under climate change. CEPHaS involves researchers from Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi and the United Kingdom – soil scientists, agronomists, agricultural economists, social scientists, geophysicists, hydrogeologists and statisticians. We have been collaborating on the project since October 2017, and many of us have been working together for longer than that. In this letter we share some aspects of our experience, practices and policies which we think go some way towards facilitating more equitable partnership in research. In summary, we think that the problem of helicopter research can be tackled only through the development of genuine partnerships, in which the global asymmetries of power and wealth between north and south are not allowed to distort the research agenda or to prevent equitable collaboration in which the interests, opportunities and contribution of all parties are respected. This requires a commitment to capacity strengthening and long-term engagement on the part of researchers, their institutions and the funders of research.