Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Adaptive Epistemologies of Scientific Practice and Environmental Restoration

该项目将分析鱼类栖息地恢复的科学、法律的和政治结果。它将研究科学家和渔业管理人员如何适应不确定性。这项研究将有助于了解科学与环境管理和政策之间的关系。它将使环境管理人员和科学家能够更有效地应对环境问题。这项研究将与科学家和管理人员，包括联邦，州和部落机构，以考虑如何最好地概念化，准备和开发科学和管理模型，方案和工具。该项目将为适应性科学、技术和政策研究这一关键领域的未来研究人员开发工具。这项研究将引起渔业、环境科学家、政策制定者、当地居民和管理人员的兴趣。该项目包括三个相互关联的案例研究，重点是恢复鲑鱼栖息地在哥伦比亚河流域。它将特别关注《濒危物种法》规定的鲑鱼栖息地恢复的科学实践。该项目将探讨科学家和环境管理人员如何调整他们的认识论和管理实践，以适应环境的不确定性，并确定如何以及何时科学，法律和自然资源管理之间的关系转变。研究人员将进行访谈，档案研究，政策分析和参与者观察，以回答这些问题。本研究将扩展科学，技术和社会（STS）领域的文献，涉及生态科学和管理的历史和发展，科学与法律的交叉，以及社会生态系统的适应性治理和恢复力。

This project will analyze scientific, legal and political outcomes for fish habitat restoration. It will study how scientists and fisheries managers are adapting to uncertainty. The study will contribute to an understanding of how science relates to environmental management and policy. It will enable both environmental managers and scientists to be more effective in responding to environmental issues. This research will engage with scientists and managers, including Federal, State, and Tribal agencies, in order to consider how best to conceptualize, prepare for, and develop scientific and management models, scenarios, and tools. The project will develop tools for future researchers in the critical area of adaptive science, technology, and policy studies. The research will be of interest to fisheries, environmental scientists, policy makers, local residents and administrators. This project includes three interrelated case studies, focused on salmon habitat restoration in the Columbia River Basin. It will look specifically at the scientific practice of salmon habitat restoration, mandated by the Endangered Species Act. The project will explore how scientists and environmental managers adapt their epistemological and management practices to accommodate environmental uncertainty and to identify how and when the relationships between science, law, and natural resource management shift. The researchers will conduct interviews, archival research, policy analysis, and participant observation in order to answer these questions. This study will extend literature in the field of science, technology, and society (STS) on the history and development of ecological science and management, the intersection of science and law, and adaptive governance and resilience of social-ecological systems.