Framing Debates about Poverty Reduction and Ecosystem Services

该研究项目的目的是确定未来十年减贫和生态系统服务研究的议程。它将通过两种方式这样做。在第一瞬间，它将绘制和概念化的关键争端和协议领域，在这一领域的动画目前的辩论。这将使我们有可能区分不同认识共同体之间存在的不同类型的分歧（和一致），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）所需的工作种类，从而促进当前的理解。这项工作将被写在一篇简短的论文中，并在项目网站上的公共领域提供。然后，我们将利用这份概念文件作为研究工具，在参与这场辩论的不同认识界进行一系列访谈、审查和磋商。我们将在这个过程结束时在一个著名的科学期刊上发表概念说明。这个项目遵循了10年前由该项目的一些研究人员撰写并发表在《科学》杂志上的一份重要论文的模式（亚当斯等人2004），该论文是保护和贫困工作的重要概念说明。该文件所提供的澄清有助于界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知识界接触，以塑造未来的研究议程。我们的接触将在各种论坛上进行。我们将有自己的定制会议，我们将邀请不同认识社区的关键成员。我们将在我们的总部所在地北方和南方开展这项工作，在南方，大部分探索减贫和生态系统服务的工作都是在实践中进行的。我们还将前往不同的专业和学术会议，这些社区集中在一年中的特定时刻。我们将再次在北方和南方这样做。最后，我们将前往访问和采访人们在自己的机构，以及通过电话和Skype进行采访。该项目将使用发表的论文，工作论文，采访，审查和咨询专业会议和定制研讨会的混合物，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攸关方接触。特别是，它将在其开展工作的不同区域争取与关键的政策辩论和参与这些辩论的利益攸关方接触。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.