Transdisciplinary environmental research: Building trust across professional cultures
Transdisciplinary environmental research: Building trust across professional cultures
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DOI：
10.1016/j.envsci.2013.02.006
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发表时间：
2013-08-01
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6
通讯作者：
Lyon, Fergus
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作者：
Harris, Frances;Lyon, Fergus
随着研究复杂主题的挑战，如与环境可持续性和土地利用有关的问题，人们对跨学科研究越来越感兴趣，促进研究与工业之间，不同学科之间以及不同类型的研究机构之间的合作。然而，有必要更多地了解协作是如何运作的，以及在这些关系中建立信任的方法。本文通过对10个与可持续发展和环境土地利用相关的研究合作案例的详细分析，探讨了研究合作者之间不同的专业文化，他们合作的动机，以及建立信任的过程。该文件表明，信任是至关重要的跨越专业文化的界限，因为人们正在开放自己的脆弱性和风险。研究结果显示了大学研究人员、环境非政府组织、私营企业和商业咨询公司之间是如何建立信任的。信任是通过了解他人的信息、先前的合作经验、合作规范以及对可能违反行为规范的人进行制裁来建立的。激励是建立信任的必要基础，但还不够。这些关系是通过现有的关系建立起来的，通过项目的进展和使用中介或中介来建立信任。(C)2013爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
With the challenges of researching complex topics such as those related to environmental sustainability and land use, there is a growing interest in transdisciplinary research promoting collaboration between research and industry, between different disciplines in research, and between different types of research organisations. However there is a need to know more about how collaboration is operating and approaches to building trust in these relations. This paper uses the detailed analysis of 10 case studies of research collaborations related to sustainability and environmental land-use to examine the different professional cultures among research collaborators, the incentives they have to cooperate, and the processes of building trust. The paper shows that trust is vital when crossing professional cultural boundaries as people are opening themselves to vulnerability and risk. The results show how trust is built between university researchers, environmental NGOs, private businesses and commercial advisory companies. Trust is shown to be built by having information on others, prior experience of working together, norms of cooperation, and sanctions exerted on those who might transgress norms of behaviour. Having incentives is a necessary but not adequate basis for having trust. These relationships are built up through existing relationships, building trust through progression of projects and the use of intermediaries or guarantors. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.