Evolution of models to support community and policy action with science: Balancing pastoral livelihoods and wildlife conservation in savannas of East Africa
Evolution of models to support community and policy action with science: Balancing pastoral livelihoods and wildlife conservation in savannas of East Africa
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.0900313106
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发表时间：
2016-04-26
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Clark, W. C.
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作者：
Reid, R. S.;Nkedianye, D.;Clark, W. C.
我们开发了“持续参与”模型，以更好地整合政策制定者、社区和研究人员的知识，目标是促进采取更有效的行动，平衡东非 4 个牧区生态系统的减贫和野生动物保护。该模型涉及创建一个核心跨界团队，包括社区推动者、政策推动者和跨学科研究人员，负责与从地方到全球范围内的广泛参与者建立联系。合作研究促进者社区团队整合当地和科学知识，帮助社区和政策制定者提高畜群质量和健康，扩大生物多样性支付计划，制定土地利用计划，并充分参与畜牧和野生动物政策的制定。该模型侧重于创建与社区和政策制定者需求高度相关的混合科学本地知识。促进团队学会了在解决更困难的野生动物问题之前先关注无争议的生计问题，与大多数合作伙伴进行战略性和定期接触而不是持续接触，并通过仅在必要时提供新的科学信息来降低成本，从而提高效率。最后，我们研究了促进在纠正研究人员-社区-政策制定者团队权力不对称方面的作用、个人价值观和性格在建立信任方面的作用，以及在项目资助结束时如何维持知识与行动的联系。
We developed a "continual engagement" model to better integrate knowledge from policy makers, communities, and researchers with the goal of promoting more effective action to balance poverty alleviation and wildlife conservation in 4 pastoral ecosystems of East Africa. The model involved the creation of a core boundary-spanning team, including community facilitators, a policy facilitator, and transdisciplinary researchers, responsible for linking with a wide range of actors from local to global scales. Collaborative researcher-facilitator community teams integrated local and scientific knowledge to help communities and policy makers improve herd quality and health, expand biodiversity payment schemes, develop land-use plans, and fully engage together in pastoral and wildlife policy development. This model focused on the creation of hybrid scientific-local knowledge highly relevant to community and policy maker needs. The facilitation team learned to be more effective by focusing on noncontroversial livelihood issues before addressing more difficult wildlife issues, using strategic and periodic engagement with most partners instead of continual engagement, and reducing costs by providing new scientific information only when deemed essential. We conclude by examining the role of facilitation in redressing asymmetries in power in researcher-community-policy maker teams, the role of individual values and character in establishing trust, and how to sustain knowledge-action links when project funding ends.