Framing Debates about Poverty Reduction and Ecosystem Services

这个研究项目的目的是制定未来十年减贫和生态系统服务的研究议程。它将通过两种方式实现这一目标。在第一个瞬间，它将描绘和概念化推动这一领域当前辩论的关键争端和协议领域。这将使区分存在于不同认知共同体之间的不同种类的分歧（和一致）成为可能，无论是理论的，道德的，概念的还是经验的。这些分歧的性质很重要，因为它决定了解决当前争端（如果它们是可以解决的）所需的工作类型，从而促进了当前的理解。这项工作将写在一篇简短的论文中，并在项目网站的公共领域中提供。然后，我们将使用这篇概念论文作为研究工具，在参与这场辩论的不同认知社区中进行一系列访谈、审查和咨询。这将使我们能够细化和指定从中产生的研究议程。在这一过程结束时，我们将在一份著名的科学杂志上发表这一概念说明。该项目遵循了10年前由该项目的一些研究人员撰写并发表在《科学》杂志上的一篇重要论文的模型（Adams et al 2004），该论文是保护与贫困工作的重要概念说明。这篇论文提供的澄清有助于确定未来十年关于贫困和保护的辩论。我们打算重复这一过程，但这一次将更积极地利用概念文件与利益相关者和认知社区接触，以塑造未来的研究议程。我们的接触将在各种场合进行。我们将有我们自己的定制会议，我们将邀请不同知识社区的主要成员。我们将在我们总部所在的北方和南方都这样做，在南方，许多探索减贫和生态系统服务的工作都在实践中进行。我们还将前往不同的专业和学术会议，这些社区在一年中的特定时刻集中在那里。我们将在北方和南方都这样做。最后，我们将前往访问和采访人们在他们自己的机构，以及通过电话和Skype进行采访。该项目将在专业会议和定制研讨会上使用已发表的论文、工作论文、访谈、审查和咨询的组合，以参与不同的认知社区。它将利用研究项目的网站和社交媒体与不同的利益相关者接触。特别是，它将寻求参与其开展工作的不同区域的关键政策辩论和这些辩论的利益攸关方。完成后，它将留下一个遗产网站和几篇发表在领先学科期刊上的论文。

The purpose of this research project is to set the agenda of research into poverty reduction and ecosystem services over the next ten years. It will do so through two means. In the first instant it will map and conceptualise the key disputes and areas of agreement that animate current debates in this field. This will make it possible to distinguish between the different sorts of disagreement (and agreement) that exist between different epistemic communities, whether they by theoretical, moral, conceptual or empirical. The nature of these disagreements is important because it determines the sort of work which is required to resolve current disputes (if they are resolvable) and so advance current understanding. This work will be written up in a short paper and made available in the public domain on the project website. We will then undertake a series of interviews, review and consultation across the different epistemic communities engaged in this debate using this concept paper as a research tool. This will allow is to refine and specify the research agendas that emerge from it. We will publish the concept note in a prominent scientific journal at the end of this process.This project follows the model of a previous key paper written by some of the investigators in this project and published in Science 10 years ago (Adams et al 2004) that served as a vital concept note for work on conservation and poverty. The clarifications that paper offered helped to define debates on poverty and conservation over the next ten years. We intend to repeat that process, but will this time be more pro-active in using the concept paper to engage with stakeholders and epistemic communities to shape future research agendas.Our engagements will take place in a variety of fora. We will have our own bespoke meetings to which we will invite key members of different epistemic communities. We will do this both in the North, where we are based, and in the South, where much of the work exploring poverty reduction and ecosystem services takes place in practice. We will also travel to different professional and academic meetings where these communities are concentrated at particular moments of the year. Again we will be doing this both in the North and the South. Finally we will travel to visit and interview people at their own institutions as well as conducting interviews by phone and Skype.The project will use a mixture of published papers, working papers, interview, review and consultation in professional meetings and bespoke workshops to engage with different epistemic communities. It will use the research project's website and social media to engage with different stakeholders. In particular it will seek to engage with key policy debates and stakeholders in those debates in the different regions in which it works. After its completion it will leave a legacy website and several papers published in the journals of leading disciplines.