A public dialogue project on the character, causes and consequences of ecosystem change in the UK and their implications for policy development

该项目实施了一个关于英国国家生态系统评估（UK NEA, 2011）及其近期后续工作（NEAFO）的方法、分析和建议的公众对话计划。英国NEA/NEAFO汇集了大量关于生态系统变化的特征、原因和后果的科学证据，它所部署的许多概念对未来自然和社会科学研究的应用至关重要。然而，政府对这项开创性的工作如何反映公众对自然环境的广泛愿望和关注，以及如何重视和管理自然环境知之甚少。因此，这个对话项目的目的是让公众参与到批判性地审视NEA/NEAFO的概念和主要科学发现及其在环境决策中的实际和新兴应用的过程中。在此范围内，该项目考虑了在当前挑战和未来风险的背景下，公众认为NEA/NEAFO审查的政策应对方案的可信度。对话过程涉及大约120名普通公众成员，通过英国各地的一系列区域公民小组与政策和科学研究人员进行互动，以评估当地背景下NEA/NEAFO的研究结果。这一过程的结果将提交给一个全国公民小组，在这个小组中，对话参与者将与NEA利益相关者进一步互动，以完善和优先考虑未来发展和应用NEA/NEAFO概念和证据的领域。

This project implements a programme of public dialogue on the methods, analyses and recommendations of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment (UK NEA, 2011) and its recent follow on work (NEAFO). The UK NEA/NEAFO draws together a wealth of scientific evidence on the character, causes and consequences of ecosystem change and many of the concepts it deploys are central to future applications of natural and social science research. Yet government knows very little about how this path-breaking work reflects wider public aspirations and concerns about the natural environment, and how it is valued and managed. The purpose of this dialogue project is thus to engage publics in a process of critically inspecting the concepts and key scientific findings of the NEA/NEAFO and their real and emerging applications in environmental decision making. Within this, the project considers the extent to which the policy response options reviewed by the NEA/NEAFO are considered credible by publics in the light of present challenges and future risks. The dialogue process involves approximately 120 members of the general public interacting with policy and scientific researchers through a series of Regional Citizen Panels across the UK to evaluate NEA/NEAFO findings in a local context. The outcomes of this process will feed into a National Citizen Panel, where a cross section of dialogue participants will interact further with NEA stakeholders to refine and prioritize areas for the future development and application of NEA/NEAFO concepts and evidence.