Examining the Fate of Experience Based Knowledge in a Science Policy Process

近几十年来，专家和决策者开始认识到非专业专家作为政策有用信息来源的作用，并对这些作用进行审查。本研究审查了这种有经验的知识在海洋渔业管理领域的使用情况。这些知识虽然在性质上不同于以研究为基础的知识，但在政策成果中很重要。该奖项提供支持，以便在美国和加拿大(在有限的程度上)行业成员与政府和学术科学家之间收集合作研究的数据。这将需要对合作研究的作用以及在生产包括鳕鱼在内的底层鱼类的科学知识和管理决策方面利用基于经验的知识的作用进行定性的探讨。这项前期工作的目标是对经验知识在北美科学政策过程中的使用情况进行准确和详细的叙述，这可以成为进一步完善和比较研究的概括和假设的基础。该项目将包括与参与类似项目的欧盟同事举行会议，为进一步的研究做准备。该项目有助于了解知识是如何发展的，并有助于加强公众对决策的参与。

In recent decades, experts and decision makers have begun to recognize the roles of lay experts as sources of information useful to policy, and to subject those roles to scrutiny. The present study examines the use of such experienced-based knowledge in the domain of marine fisheries management. This knowledge, although qualitatively different from research-based knowledge, has been important in policy outcomes. This award provides support to allow data collection on cooperative research between industry members and government and academic scientists in the United States and , to a limited extent, Canada. It will entail a qualitative exploration of the role of cooperative research and the use of experienced-based knopwledge in the production of scientific knowledge and management decisions for groundfish, including cod. The goal of this preliminary work is to develop accurate and detailed narrative accounts of the uses of experience-based knowledge in the science policy process in North America, which can become the basis of generalizations and hypotheses for further more refined and comparative research. The project will include a meeting with colleagues in the European Union engaged in similar projects, to prepare for further research. This project contributes to understanding how knowledge develops and to improving public participation in policy making.