How value conflicts infected the science of riparian restoration for endangered salmon habitat in America's Pacific Northwest: Lessons for the application of conservation science to policy
How value conflicts infected the science of riparian restoration for endangered salmon habitat in America's Pacific Northwest: Lessons for the application of conservation science to policy
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DOI：
10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108508
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发表时间：
2020-04-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Chan, Kai M. A.
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作者：
Chapman, Mollie;Satterfield, Terre;Chan, Kai M. A.
保护政策依赖于科学的投入，但科学家们经常对他们的建议和政策决定之间的“差距”感到沮丧。在本文中，我们研究这样一个“差距”：如何长期存在的价值观冲突的功能“感染”的合成和应用河岸科学鲑鱼栖息地恢复项目。我们这样做的政策辩论的分析所需的最小宽度的河岸缓冲区在自愿保护计划的农业用地在普吉特湾地区的华盛顿州。基于对专家访谈和文献分析的分析，我们首先概述了价值观辩论的主要特征。然后，我们展示的方式价值观“感染”的河岸恢复科学的辩论。我们确定了一组四个“绊脚石”的科学政策的差距，共同导致了一个棘手的辩论和过度简化的科学：科学和政策的混淆，科学的应用背景下，有限的考虑替代品，并通过技术和官僚语言模糊的辩论。最后，我们提出了一系列“路径点”，可以帮助生态学家、保护管理者和政策制定者更好地引导从科学到政策的旅程。
Conservation policy relies on input from science, yet scientists are often frustrated by the 'gap' between their recommendations and policy decisions. In this paper we examine one such 'gap': how a long-standing conflict of values functioned to 'infect' the synthesis and application of riparian science for salmon habitat restoration projects. We do this by analysis of a policy debate over the required minimum width of riparian buffers in voluntary conservation programs on agricultural lands in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. Based on an analysis of expert interviews and document analysis, we first outline the key features of the values debate. We then show the ways values 'infected' the debate over the science of riparian restoration. We identify a set of four 'stumbling blocks' in the science to policy gap that together led to both an intractable debate and an oversimplification of the science: conflation of science and policy, application of science out of context, limited consideration of alternatives, and obscuring debate via technical and bureaucratic language. We conclude with a set of 'waypoints' that can help ecologists, conservation managers and policy makers to better navigate the journey from science to policy.