Interactions between human behaviour and ecological systems
Interactions between human behaviour and ecological systems
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DOI：
10.1098/rstb.2011.0175
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发表时间：
2012-01-19
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Milner-Gulland, E. J.
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作者：
Milner-Gulland, E. J.
关于人类行为与生态系统之间相互作用的研究往往侧重于人类活动对生态系统的直接影响，例如生物多样性的丧失。针对生态系统服务的研究工作也在增加。然而，控制人们使用环境的干预措施改变了自然资源使用者面临的激励因素，从而改变了他们对资源使用的决定。通过人类决策调整的保护措施对生物多样性的间接影响研究得很少，但可能是重要的，可能是违反直觉的。在人们依赖多种自然资源维持生计、贫穷和生物多样性丧失严重的地方，情况尤其如此。需要一种跨学科的方法来量化这些相互作用，其核心是对人类决策的理解;否则，对保护政策影响的预测可能会产生很大的误导。
Research on the interactions between human behaviour and ecological systems tends to focus on the direct effects of human activities on ecosystems, such as biodiversity loss. There is also increasing research effort directed towards ecosystem services. However, interventions to control people's use of the environment alter the incentives that natural resource users face, and therefore their decisions about resource use. The indirect effects of conservation interventions on biodiversity, modulated through human decision-making, are poorly studied but are likely to be significant and potentially counterintuitive. This is particularly so where people are dependent on multiple natural resources for their livelihoods, when both poverty and biodiversity loss are acute. An inter-disciplinary approach is required to quantify these interactions, with an understanding of human decision-making at its core; otherwise, predictions about the impacts of conservation policies may be highly misleading.