How to make global assessments more effective: lessons from the assessment community

Rothman, Dale S.; Bers, Caroline van; Bakkes, Jan; Pahl‐Wostl, Claudia

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2009.09.002

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“…The development of periodic integrated and comprehensive global assessments (e.g., IPCC, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the United Nations Environmental Programme Global Environmental Outlook, and the International Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) is often conducted by scientists, with policymakers as an audience, and typically delivered as summary policy documents (43). Our results suggest that these efforts should take into account public perceptions and target the public as an audience, building on their already advanced level of understanding, their capacity to integrate impacts around synthetic concepts, such as ocean health (21), and triggering individual and collective action.…”

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Public awareness, concerns, and priorities about anthropogenic impacts on marine environments

Gelcich

Buckley

Pinnegar

et al. 2014

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Numerous international bodies have advocated the development of strategies to achieve the sustainability of marine environments. Typically, such strategies are based on information from expert groups about causes of degradation and policy options to address them, but these strategies rarely take into account assessed information about public awareness, concerns, and priorities. Here we report the results of a pan-European survey of public perceptions about marine environmental impacts as a way to inform the formation of science and policy priorities. On the basis of 10,106 responses to an online survey from people in 10 European nations, spanning a diversity of socioeconomic and geographical areas, we examine the public's informedness and concern regarding marine impacts, trust in different information sources, and priorities for policy and funding. Results show that the level of concern regarding marine impacts is closely associated with the level of informedness and that pollution and overfishing are two areas prioritized by the public for policy development. The level of trust varies greatly among different information sources and is highest for academics and scholarly publications but lower for government or industry scientists. Results suggest that the public perceives the immediacy of marine anthropogenic impacts and is highly concerned about ocean pollution, overfishing, and ocean acidification. Eliciting public awareness, concerns, and priorities can enable scientists and funders to understand how the public relates to marine environments, frame impacts, and align managerial and policy priorities with public demand.ocean literacy | ocean impacts | Europe | attitudes | ocean health

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Public awareness, concerns, and priorities about anthropogenic impacts on marine environments

Gelcich

Buckley

Pinnegar

et al. 2014

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“…Problems related to biodiversity and ecosystem services are often referred to as ''wicked'' problems (Churchman 1967;Sharman and Mlambo 2012), and include uncertainty, complexity, diverse values and the involvement of many sectors. These complex problems are likely to be particularly difficult to communicate (Rothman et al 2009) and unlikely to have simple 'optimal' solutions (Laurance et al 2012;Pielke 2007;Stirling 2010). The cross-sectoral nature of some conservation and environmental issues means that many policies are linked and contain multiple objectives, thereby adding to their complexity.…”

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Improving the science-policy dialogue to meet the challenges of biodiversity conservation: having conversations rather than talking at one-another

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A better, more effective dialogue is needed between biodiversity science and policy to underpin the sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity. Many initiatives exist to improve communication, but these largely conform to a 'linear' or technocratic model of communication in which scientific ''facts'' are transmitted directly to policy advisers to ''solve problems''. While this model can help start a dialogue, it is, on its own, insufficient, as decision taking is complex, iterative and often selective in the information used. Here, we draw on the literature, interviews and a workshop with individuals working at the interface between biodiversity science and government policy development to Building on these recommendations, we stress the need to: (a) frame research and policy jointly; (b) promote inter-and trans-disciplinary research and ''multi-domain'' working groups that include both scientists and policy makers from various fields and sectors; (c) put in place structures and incentive schemes that support interactive dialogue in the long-term. These are changes that are needed in light of continuing loss of biodiversity and its consequences for societal dependence on and benefits from nature.

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“…Such a model has a 45 number of drawbacks, including potential mismatches with user needs or concerns, ill-adapted or 46 untimely communication means and lack of engagement of key knowledge holders (Vogel et al 47 Complex and broad issues around biodiversity encompass a wide range of values and knowledge 50 (Young et al, 2014), which can make understanding and two-way communication problematic 51 (Rothman et al 2009) and are unlikely to lead to simple 'solutions' (Laurance et al 2012, Pielke 52 2007, Stirling 2010). 53…”

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Creating a biodiversity science community: Experiences from a European Network of Knowledge

Carmen

Neßhöver

Saarikoski³

et al. 2015

Environmental Science & Policy

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. 2015. Creating a biodiversity science community: experiences from a European Network of Knowledge.Contact CEH NORA team at noraceh@ceh.ac.ukThe NERC and CEH trademarks and logos ('the Trademarks') are registered trademarks of NERC in the UK and other countries, and may not be used without the prior written consent of the Trademark owner. As biodiversity continues to decline despite our increased knowledge of the drivers and 27 consequences of biodiversity loss, much of the current focus is on strengthening interfaces between 28 biodiversity knowledge and policy-making. While many of the challenges associated with science-29 policy interfaces are well known, what is less well studied is the more specific issue of how to 30 integrate the broad range of knowledge relating to complex issues such as biodiversity and 31 ecosystem services, to inform decision-making at regional and global scales. Based on a formative 32 evaluation of the development of a European Network of Knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem 33 services, we identify key themes to build a broad biodiversity science community capable of 34 developing integrated knowledge to inform decision-making. Based on these findings we outline 35 future steps for the successful integration of knowledge in decision-making at the European, and 36 also the global scale, in particular the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem 37 Services (IPBES). 38

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How to make global assessments more effective: lessons from the assessment community

Cited by 39 publications

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Public awareness, concerns, and priorities about anthropogenic impacts on marine environments

Public awareness, concerns, and priorities about anthropogenic impacts on marine environments

Improving the science-policy dialogue to meet the challenges of biodiversity conservation: having conversations rather than talking at one-another

Creating a biodiversity science community: Experiences from a European Network of Knowledge

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