Doctoral Dissertation Research: Science on the Outside Looking In: Can 'Local' Scientists Negotiate a Habitat Conservation Plan When 'Cosmopolitan' Scientists Take Part?

克林顿政府已经批准了数百个栖息地保护计划（HCPs），将《濒危物种法》（ESA）中一个模糊的条款作为解决物种倡导者和私有产权捍卫者之间激烈冲突的战略核心。本论文研究项目将研究一组当地专家的努力，以汇集一套生态事实、理论和模型，这些事实、理论和模型既可以被世界各地的科学家接受，也可以被同意就HOP达成共识的政治利益相关者接受。一旦被接受，这些技术要求将作为协议的基础，以确定私人土地所有者必须提供多少资金和土地，才能被允许杀死濒危动物或消除部分栖息地，否则这是ESA禁止的。通过参与观察、录像、访谈和文献分析，该项目将检查加州两家HCPs的准备情况。更具体地说，它将研究不同时间尺度上的相互作用如何影响每个当地专家试图就技术主张达成共识的方式，范围从数据标准等日常成就到从异质生态数据集合中开发高度抽象的生态模型等长期成就。该项目还将追踪世界主义科学家对这些技术主张的解释是如何被监管行为者用来沟通他们互动的时间和程度的叙述和代表性技术所塑造的。

The Clinton Administration has approved hundreds of habitat conservation plans (HCPs), taking an obscure provision of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and making it the centerpiece of their strategy to resolve the raging conflicts between species advocates and defenders of private property rights. This dissertation research project will study efforts by a group of local experts to assemble a set of ecological facts, theories, and models that are acceptable both to cosmopolitan scientists and to political stakeholders who have agreed to reach consensus on an HOP. Once accepted, these technical claims will serve as a basis for agreement on how much money and land private landholders have to provide in order to be allowed to kill endangered animals or eliminate a portion of their habitat, which is otherwise forbidden under the ESA. Using participant observation, videotaping, interviews, and documentary analysis, the project will examine the preparation of two HCPs in California. More specifically it will examine how interaction at different temporal scales shapes how each local experts attempt to reach consensus on technical claims, ranging from everyday achievements such as data standards to long-range achievements such as developing a highly abstract ecological model from a collection of heterogeneous ecological data. The project will also trace how the interpretation of these technical claims by cosmopolitan scientists is shaped by the narratives and representational techniques that regulatory actors use to communicate the timing and extent of their interaction.