Scholar's Award: A Social Scientific Study of how Stakeholders Produce Knowledge about the Cause and Treatment of Colony Collapse Disorder

学者奖：一项关于利益相关者如何产生有关蜂群崩溃失调的原因和治疗的知识的社会科学研究

• 批准号: 1058933
• 负责人: Chloe Silverman
• 金额: $ 16.63万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-15 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1058933&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholar; Award; Social; Scientific; Study

Colony Collapse Disorder [CCD] is the as-yet unexplained disappearance of large numbers of honeybees from their hives over the past four years. CCD has captured public interest, but many environmentalists and entomologists believe that it is an early indication of an even more troubling decline in all pollinator species, including many varieties of native bees, flies, and bats. A sustained decline in honeybees alone would have significant consequences for commercial agriculture, food security, and the environment, and a decline in pollinator species more broadly would have even more impact. This project uses CCD as a case study to refine our understanding of how different groups define, produce, and communicate what they see as valid evidence in situations of scientific uncertainty. The investigator will conduct a multi-sited participant ethnography at several bee research labs, open-ended interviews with scientists, bee keepers, and other stakeholders, and textual analysis of scientific publications and media coverage to study this issue. This project takes advantage of a unique opportunity to chronicle a group of scientists as they work on an emerging problem of societal importance. A social scientific analysis of the evolving research communities for CCD demonstrates how existing models of contested illnesses and studies of the affective components of scientific and ecological knowledge can be adapted and applied to a study of agricultural science. The proposed study investigates how knowledge about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has been and continues to be produced. It analyzes how the cause of CCD is defined and the social and economic dimensions of proposed solutions. CCD has the potential to become a major social and environmental problem with wide-ranging effects. A social scientific perspective provides insights into the different interests and values that may affect the design and execution of research projects. The research project contributes to scholarship in science and technology studies, sociology, and anthropology, as well as audiences in apiculture, entomology and science policy. Research findings will lead to broadly applicable best practices for creating successful collaborations among natural scientists, social scientists, and members of the public.

蜂群崩溃综合症（CCD）是指过去四年中大量蜜蜂从蜂巢中不明原因地消失。 CCD 引起了公众的兴趣，但许多环保主义者和昆虫学家认为，这是所有传粉媒介物种（包括许多品种的本土蜜蜂、苍蝇和蝙蝠）出现更令人不安的下降的早期迹象。仅蜜蜂的持续减少就会对商业农业、粮食安全和环境产生重大影响，而授粉媒介物种的更广泛减少会产生更大的影响。该项目使用 CCD 作为案例研究，以加深我们对不同群体如何在科学不确定的情况下定义、产生和交流他们认为有效的证据的理解。调查人员将在几个蜜蜂研究实验室进行多地点的参与人种学研究，对科学家、养蜂人和其他利益相关者进行开放式访谈，并对科学出版物和媒体报道进行文字分析，以研究这个问题。该项目利用一个独特的机会来记录一群科学家致力于解决一个具有社会重要性的新问题的过程。对 CCD 不断发展的研究团体的社会科学分析表明，现有的有争议疾病模型以及科学和生态知识情感成分的研究如何能够适应并应用于农业科学研究。拟议的研究调查了关于蜂群崩溃综合症（CCD）的知识是如何产生并继续产生的。它分析了如何定义 CCD 的原因以及所提出的解决方案的社会和经济层面。 CCD 有可能成为具有广泛影响的重大社会和环境问题。社会科学视角提供了对可能影响研究项目设计和执行的不同兴趣和价值观的见解。该研究项目为科学技术研究、社会学和人类学领域的学术研究以及养蜂业、昆虫学和科学政策领域的受众做出贡献。研究结果将带来广泛适用的最佳实践，以在自然科学家、社会科学家和公众之间建立成功的合作。