A Transdisciplinary Deliberative Model for Just Research and Policy: Toward Resolving the Crisis of Vanishing Insect Pollinators

该项目寻求利用广泛的利益相关者的审议过程，为实地研究开发一种替代的实验范式，以了解蜜蜂的可持续发展危机。科学家们一致认为，他们所称的群体崩溃障碍(CCD)是由多种因素的复杂组合引起的，包括杀虫剂、病原体、寄生虫和/或营养不良，但目前的实地研究主要是毒理学做法，强调隔离个别原因因素和实验控制。对杀虫剂和其他环境因素的累积和交互影响的分析--这是养蜂人倾向于接受的方法--已经被排除在外。这个为期两年的项目旨在创新试验田研究方法，以便更好地纳入社会生态复杂性。他们建议试验慎重的策略，以加强非科学家(养蜂人、农民、生态学家)对旨在了解ccd的研究的影响。他们将促进面对面的讨论，使用不同的方法论和概念工具进行基于地点的分析，并结合四项关于单一栽培作物和多栽培作物的试验性田间研究，管理是否降低风险？杀虫剂。美国的环境和农业可持续性受到昆虫传粉者急剧下降的威胁。拟议的活动旨在为解决环境问题作出重要贡献。它还旨在扩大主要受影响和经常被排除在外的非科学(未经认证)公民的参与，并将他们的各种专门知识纳入科学知识和政策的产生。它表明，一个更公平的过程，在这个过程中，更广泛的利益相关者塑造影响他们生活的研究，可以带来更好的科学和政策。

This project seeks to use deliberative processes with a wide range of stake holders to develop an alternative experimental paradigm for field studies to understand the sustainability crisis in honey bees. Scientists agree that what they call Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), is caused by a complex combination of factors, including pesticides, pathogens, parasites and/or poor nutrition yet field research is currently dominated by toxicological practices which emphasize the isolation of individual causal factors and experimental control. Analysis of cumulative and interactive effects of pesticides and other ambient environmental factors?an approach that beekeepers tend to embrace--has been precluded. This 2-year project aims to innovate experimental field research methods so as to better incorporate socio-ecological complexity. They propose to experiment with deliberative strategies for enhancing the influence of non-scientists (beekeepers, farmers, ecologists) on research aimed at understanding CCD. They will facilitate face-to-face deliberations using diverse methodological and conceptual tools for place-based analyses, in conjunction with four pilot field studies of mono-cultural crops and poly-cultural crops, managed with or without ?reduced risk? insecticides. The environmental and agricultural sustainability of the United States is threatened by steep declines in insect pollinators. The proposed activity seeks to make important contributions to environmental problem solving. It also aims to broaden the participation of primarily affected and often-excluded, non-scientific (non-certified) citizens and to include their varieties of expertise in the production of scientific knowledge and policy. It stands to show that a fairer process, wherein a broader array of stakeholders shapes the research that affects their lives, can lead to better science and policy.