Developing a coherent narrative for conserving freshwater and wetland habitats: experiences in the UK
Developing a coherent narrative for conserving freshwater and wetland habitats: experiences in the UK
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DOI：
10.1002/wat2.1189
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Mainstone, Chris P.
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作者：
Mainstone, Chris P.
生物多样性与水资源管理之间的相互关系（一）例如，保护淡水和湿地生物多样性）是一个复杂的工作领域。由于生物多样性和水立法和政策的单独演变而产生的决策文化冲突造成了不容易解决的紧张关系。作用于淡水和湿地生态系统的人类压力和压力的复杂性，以及解决这些问题所需的专业和利益攸关方的多样性，增加了在这一界面上工作的挑战。因此，许多人需要对我们作为一个社会正在努力为淡水生态系统实现的目标以及每个有关方面如何为实现这一目标做出最大贡献有一个共同的看法。迫切需要一种生态叙述，它贯穿了立法、操作和技术的复杂性，为生物多样性和水管理如何共同努力实现各自的目标提供了理论基础。在文化心态驱动决策的情况下，叙事提供了一个重要的功能。它们鼓励从更全面和战略的角度进行决策，而不是试图在地方一级规定结果。自然生态系统功能的概念提供了一种共同的语言，在其中生物多样性和水的目标可以框架，并在英格兰与这个概念在其核心的连贯的叙述已经开发。让水在最自然的条件下尽可能自然地通过集水区，是淡水和湿地生态系统生物多样性和水的愿望的核心。(C)2016皇冠版权所有。
The interface between biodiversity and water management (i. e., conserving freshwater and wetland biodiversity) is a complex area in which to operate. The clash of decision-making cultures arising from the separate evolution of biodiversity and water legislation and policy creates tensions that are not easily resolved. The complexity of the human pressures and stresses acting on freshwater and wetland ecosystems, and the multiplicity of specialisms and stakeholders required to address them, increase the challenges of working at this interface. There are therefore many people who need to have a common view of what we as a society are trying to achieve for freshwater ecosystems, and how each interested party best contributes to achieving this. There is a critical need for an ecological narrative that cuts through the legislative, operational, and technical complexity, providing a rationale for how biodiversity and water management can work together to achieve their respective objectives. Narratives provide an important function in circumstances where cultural mindsets drive decision making. They encourage decision making to be approached from a more holistic and strategic perspective without attempting to prescribe the outcome at a local level. The concept of natural ecosystem function provides a common language within which biodiversity and water objectives can be framed, and a coherent narrative has been developed in England with this concept at its heart. Allowing water to move through catchments as naturally as possible, in the most natural condition possible, lies at the heart of both biodiversity-and water-based aspirations for freshwater and wetland ecosystems. (C) 2016 Crown copyright.