Engaging stakeholders across a socio-environmentally diverse network of water research sites in North and South America
Engaging stakeholders across a socio-environmentally diverse network of water research sites in North and South America
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DOI：
10.1016/j.envdev.2020.100582
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发表时间：
2021-04-03
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5.4
通讯作者：
Velez, Maria I.
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作者：
Smyth, Robyn L.;Fatima, Uroosa;Velez, Maria I.
面对当地和全球变化，维持和恢复淡水生态系统服务需要有效吸引利益相关者参与的适应性研究。然而，研究界对于应该在何处、何时、哪些利益相关者参与以及什么样的研究人员应该参与参与（例如物理、生态或社会科学家）缺乏理解和共识。本文探讨了北美和南美正在发展的水生研究地点网络中利益相关者的参与，这些研究地点具有广泛的文化规范、社会价值观、资源管理范式和生态物理条件。在六个国家的七个站点中，我们发现不同程度的参与是由于利益相关者的利益差异（考虑到水资源问题的历史和紧迫性）以及站点团队根据其专业知识和资源有效参与的能力差异来解释的。我们对参与活动进行了分类，并应用了赫尔伯特和古普塔的参与阶梯，以更好地了解场地差异，并总结经验教训，以规划比较社会水文学研究和对利益相关者参与方法有效性的系统评估。我们建议研究网络让利益相关者积极参与，自适应地考虑当地社会水文条件的变化和变化。反过来，这需要进一步努力促进综合性研究团队的发展，吸引和留住来自多个社会科学学科的研究人员，并针对不同条件进行有效参与策略的培训。
Maintaining and restoring freshwater ecosystem services in the face of local and global change requires adaptive research that effectively engages stakeholders. However, there is a lack of understanding and consensus in the research community regarding where, when, and which stakeholders should be engaged and what kind of researcher should do the engaging (e.g., physical, ecological, or social scientists). This paper explores stakeholder engagement across a developing network of aquatic research sites in North and South America with wide ranging cultural norms, social values, resource management paradigms, and eco-physical conditions. With seven sites in six countries, we found different degrees of engagement were explained by dif-ferences in the interests of the stakeholders given the history and perceived urgency of water resource problems as well as differences in the capacities of the site teams to effectively engage given their expertise and resources. We categorized engagement activities and applied Hurlbert and Gupta's split ladder of participation to better understand site differences and distill lessons learned for planning comparative socio-hydrological research and systematic evaluations of the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement approaches. We recommend research networks practice deliberate engagement of stakeholders that adaptively accounts for variations and changes in local socio-hydrologic conditions. This, in turn, requires further efforts to foster the development of well-integrated research teams that attract and retain researchers from multiple social science disciplines and enable training on effective engagement strategies for diverse conditions.