How to close the science-practice gap in nature conservation? Information sources used by practitioners
How to close the science-practice gap in nature conservation? Information sources used by practitioners
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DOI：
10.1016/j.biocon.2019.04.011
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发表时间：
2019-07-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Holderegger, Rolf
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作者：
Fabian, Yvonne;Bollmann, Kurt;Holderegger, Rolf
从事实际保护管理的专业人员和科学家经常抱怨科学与实践之间的信息差距。哪些信息来源对专业人士来说很重要，他们在日常工作中使用哪些信息？了解这些问题并更多地了解保护专业人员使用的信息来源将促进从科学到实践的有效知识转移。我们进行了一项调查，以确定瑞士自然保护专业人员使用的信息来源，包括森林部门。对于自然保护专业人员来说，基于经验的信息来源（例如个人经验、与同事和专家的直接交流）比基于证据的信息来源（例如各种印刷产品，如指南、民族语言的专业期刊、针对专业人员的教科书）更重要。他们也更经常使用。国际科学期刊上的文章很少被保护专业人士查阅。因此，科学家必须以专家身份参与，并抽出时间与保护专业人员进行直接的个人接触和交流（例如，提供实地考察）。鉴于专业人员在日常工作中几乎没有时间搜索和应用新的科学知识和成果，研究人员应提供以本国语言编写的针对受众的综合性简短出版物以及专门网站。这些措施是减少自然保护科学与实践之间的差距的关键。文章影响陈述科学家和保护专业人员之间的个人参与和个人接触是必要的，以减少科学与实践之间的差距。
Professionals working in practical conservation management and scientists often complain about an information gap between science and practice. Which kinds of information sources are important to professionals and which do they use in their every-day work? Answering these questions and knowing more about the information sources used by conservation professionals would promote effective knowledge transfer from science to practice. We conducted a survey to identify the information sources used by Swiss professionals in nature conservation, including the forest sector. Experience-based information sources (e.g. personal experience, direct exchange with colleagues and experts) are more important for professionals in nature conservation than evidence-based sources (e.g. various print products such as guidelines, specialized journals in national languages, text books targeted to professionals). They were also more often used. Articles from international scientific journals are hardly ever consulted by conservation professionals. It is thus important that scientists engage as experts and take time for direct personal contact and exchange with conservation professionals (e.g. by offering field trips). Given that professionals have little time in their daily business for searching and implementing new scientific knowledge and results, short, audience-targeted and synthetizing publications in national languages as well as specialized websites should be provided by researchers. These measures are key to reduce the gap between science and practice in nature conservation.Article impact statement Personal engagement and personal contact between scientists and conservation professionals are necessary to reduce the science-practice gap.