Doctoral Dissertation Research: Using Prospect Theory and Human Perceptions of Wildlife to Predict Support for Invasive Species Management.

博士论文研究：利用前景理论和人类对野生动物的看法来预测对入侵物种管理的支持。

• 批准号: 1747562
• 负责人: Sarah Anderson
• 金额: $ 1.69万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-15 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1747562&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Using; Prospect

Many environmental issues are highly politicized. Invasive species impacts are an example of an environmental problem that has not become politicized. Invasive species are also one of the most important drivers of declines in global biodiversity, estimated to cost $120 billion annually in management and mitigation costs in the US, making this a salient and important issue for land and wildlife managers. Invasive species management can be particularly difficult because the public perception of risks associated with management can influence the success or failure of that action. Despite this, little is known about how to frame the management of invasive species in a way that facilitates public support.Prospect theory suggests that the public will respond more strongly to frames that communicate losses than gains. Because invasive species policy is as yet not politicized, it provides a useful test of prospect theory in the environmental arena where costs are often concentrated and benefits. By testing prospect theory across a range of species, this research can evaluate how individuals perceive risk and salience of species identity in determining the perceived need for management. This response to messaging frames may be further modulated by the perception of a species, which can, in turn, influence the success or failure of the implementation of management strategies. By accounting for species identity in our analysis of messaging frames, we can identify how species identity interacts with messaging frames to shape policy outcomes. This project helps to unite the fields of social ecology and public policy by providing novel research to understand the role of framing in the public's perception of risk associated with environmental management. We expect that mammals and other "cute" species will reduce support for management, making messaging frames more relevant to support outcomes. In contrast, we expect that messaging frames related to species that are traditionally thought of as undesirable (e.g. reptiles or amphibians) will be less relevant in determining public support. Broadly, this project can inform managers about how to frame and message about invasive species to increase public support for management.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

许多环境问题被高度政治化。入侵物种的影响是尚未被政治化的环境问题的一个例子。入侵物种也是全球生物多样性下降的最重要驱动因素之一，估计在美国，每年的管理和缓解成本耗资1200亿美元，这对于土地和野生动植物管理者来说是一个很大而重要的问题。入侵物种管理可能特别困难，因为公众对与管理相关的风险的看法会影响该行动的成功或失败。尽管如此，关于如何以促进公众支持的方式构建入侵物种的管理知之甚少。挑战理论表明，公众对传达损失的框架的反应比收益更为强烈。由于侵入性物种政策尚未政治化，因此它在环境领域提供了有用的前景理论测试，在环境领域，成本通常集中并收益。通过测试一系列物种的前景理论，这项研究可以评估个人如何在确定感知的管理需求时感知物种认同的风险和显着性。这种对消息传递框架的反应可能会通过对物种的感知进一步调节，从而影响实施管理策略的成功或失败。通过在我们对消息传递框架的分析中考虑物种的身份，我们可以确定物种身份如何与消息传递框架相互作用以塑造政策结果。该项目通过提供新颖的研究来了解框架在公众对与环境管理相关的风险感知中的作用来帮助团结社会生态学和公共政策领域。我们预计哺乳动物和其他“可爱”物种将减少对管理的支持，从而使消息传递框架与支持结果更相关。相比之下，我们期望与传统上被认为是不受欢迎的物种相关的消息框架（例如爬行动物或两栖动物）在确定公共支持方面的关系较小。从广义上讲，该项目可以告知管理人员有关如何构建有关入侵物种的信息，以增加公众对管理的支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来通过评估来支持的。