Do conservation managers use scientific evidence to support their decision-making?
Do conservation managers use scientific evidence to support their decision-making?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.biocon.2003.11.007
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发表时间：
2004-09-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Charman, K
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作者：
Pullin, AS;Knight, TM;Charman, K
保护涉及从广泛的选择中做出适当行动的决定。为了使保护有效，决策者需要知道什么行动有效，什么行动无效。理想情况下，决策应基于科学实验或系统性证据审查所证明的有效性。决策者能得到这样的信息吗？我们进行了正式的评估，在何种程度上正在使用的科学证据在保护实践中进行调查的管理计划和他们的编译器从主要的保护组织在英国。收集到的数据表明，大多数养护行动仍然以经验为基础，严重依赖传统的土地管理做法，因为许多管理干预措施仍然没有得到评价，尽管有一些证据，但许多措施并不容易以适当的形式获得。我们认为，自然保护沿着应用生态学的其他领域，应该利用医学和公共卫生领域开发和使用的循证实践的概念，旨在为决策者提供最好的证据，以替代行动的可能结果。通过批判性评估，我们提出了从决策者的角度来看，采用循证实践的挑战和好处，并确定了要遵循的过程，使其工作。(C)2003 Elsevier Ltd.保留所有权利。
Conservation involves making decisions on appropriate action from a wide range of options. For conservation to be effective, decision-makers need to know what actions do and do not work. Ideally, decisions should be based on effectiveness as demonstrated by scientific experiment or systematic review of evidence. Can decision-makers get this kind of information? We undertook a formal assessment of the extent to which scientific evidence is being used in conservation practice by conducting a survey of management plans and their compilers from major conservation organizations within the UK. Data collected suggest that the majority of conservation actions remain experience-based and rely heavily on traditional land management practices because, many management interventions remain unevaluated and, although some evidence exists, much is not readily accessible in a suitable form. We argue that nature conservation along with other fields of applied ecology, should exploit the concept of evidence-based practice developed and used in medicine and public health that aims to provide the best available evidence to the decision-maker(s) on the likely outcomes of alternative actions. Through critical evaluation, we present the challenges and benefits of adopting evidence based practice from the decision-makers point of view and identify the process to be followed to make it work. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.