Understandings of environmental quality: Ambiguities and values held by environmental professionals
Understandings of environmental quality: Ambiguities and values held by environmental professionals
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DOI：
10.1007/s00267-002-2812-6
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发表时间：
2003-01-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Buhyoff, GJ
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作者：
Hull, RB;Richert, D;Buhyoff, GJ
用来描述和谈判环境质量的术语既模棱两可，又充满价值。密切和积极参与林地管理的利益攸关方接受了采访，发现他们对健康、生物多样性、可持续性和自然度等术语使用了模棱两可、同义重复和充满价值的定义。这种令人困惑的语言阻碍了公众参与的努力，并引发了监管和取消环境专业人员自由裁量权的呼声。我们的数据来自对环境管理专业人士和其他利益相关者的深入采访，这些利益相关者在谈判林地命运方面享有很大权力。我们认为，如果环境科学和管理的实践者接受并明确这些模棱两可和具有评估性的特征，而不是忽视和掩盖它们，那么环境科学和管理将更加有效。
The terms used to describe and negotiate environmental quality are both ambiguous and value-laden. Stakeholders intimately and actively involved in the management of forested lands were interviewed and found to use ambiguous, tautological, and value-laden definitions of terms such as health, biodiversity, sustainability, and naturalness. This confusing language hinders public participation efforts and produces calls to regulate and remove discretion from environmental professionals. Our data come from in-depth interviews with environmental management professionals and other stakeholders heavily vested in negotiating the fate of forested lands. We contend that environmental science and management will be more effective if its practitioners embrace and make explicit these ambiguous and evaluative qualities rather than ignore and disguise them.