The role of protected areas in climate change adaptation strategies: assimilation and dissemination of evidence

气候变化是对养护的挑战，因为与特定自然保护区和其他保护区(例如SSSIs)相关的物种、生境和其他好处(例如土壤保持、维持水质、景观价值)将发生变化。此外，这可能会破坏一些保护区的立法基础，这些保护区之所以被指定为重要保护区，是因为它们支持特定物种或包含大量特定物种的个体。政府、保护机构和志愿者(通常通过保护慈善机构)--利益攸关方--需要迎接这一挑战，以确保可用于保护的有限资源得到最有效的配置。这一知识交流计划将把研究人员和利益攸关方聚集在一起，确定利益攸关方最需要回答的问题，以制定与气候变化相关的保护战略，然后汇集适当的科学和其他信息，以回答利益攸关方确定的关键问题。重点将放在保护区在保护战略中的作用上。该项目将通过联网、讲习班和文献/证据收集工作来实现。然后，将通过联合编写的报告、期刊文章和利益攸关方杂志和网站上的描述，以及在发布会和利益攸关方会议上的口头陈述，广泛传播这些答复。我们还将确定利益相关者对进一步研究和进一步知识交流活动的要求。通过这一方案形成的网络将很好地推动将科学进一步纳入政策制定和保护行动。该网络将包括来自约克大学和NERC生态与水文学中心的研究人员、知识交流专家，以及来自皇家鸟类保护学会、不列颠群岛植物学会、蝴蝶保护协会、联合自然保护委员会、威尔士农村委员会、英格兰自然和苏格兰自然遗产委员会以及Defra的各种利益攸关方和政策制定者。

Climate change represents a challenge to conservation because the species, habitats and other benefits (e.g., soil retention, maintenance of water quality, landscape value) associated with particular nature reserves and other protected areas (e.g. SSSIs) will change. Furthermore, this may undermine the legislative basis of some protected areas that have been designated as important because they support particular species or contain large numbers of individuals of certain species. Government, conservation agencies and volunteers (often through conservation charities) - stakeholders - need to meet this challenge so as to ensure that the limited resources available for conservation are deployed most efficiently. This Knowledge Exchange programme will bring together researchers and stakeholders to identify the questions that stakeholders most require answering to develop conservation strategies that are relevant under climate change, and then to bring together appropriate scientific and other information to answer the key questions identified by the stakeholders. The focus will be on the role of protected areas within conservation strategies. The project will be achieved via networking, workshops and literature / evidence gathering work. The answers will then be disseminated widely through a jointly-produced report, journal article and accounts in stakeholder magazines and web sites; as well as by oral presentations at a launch event and at stakeholder meetings. We will also identify stakeholder requirements for further research and for further Knowledge Exchange activities. The network formed through this programme will be well-placed to drive further integration of science into policy development and conservation action. The network will include researchers at the University of York and NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Knowledge Exchange specialists, and a variety of stakeholders and policy makers from, e.g., The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, The Botanical Society of the British Isles, Butterfly Conservation, from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Countryside Council for Wales, Natural England and Scottish Natural Heritage, and also from Defra.