A participatory process for identifying and prioritizing policy-relevant research questions in natural resource management: a case study from the UK forestry sector

被引：25

作者：

Petrokofsky, Gillian ^{[1
]}

Brown, Nicholas D. ^{[1
]}

Hemery, Gabriel E. ^{[2
]}

Woodward, Steve ^{[3
]}

Wilson, Edward ^{[4
]}

Weatherall, Andrew ^{[5
]}

Stokes, Victoria ^{[6
]}

Smithers, Richard J. ^{[7
]}

Sangster, Marcus ^{[8
]}

Russell, Karen ^{[9
]}

Pullin, Andrew S. ^{[10
]}

Price, Colin ^{[10
]}

Morecroft, Michael ^{[11
]}

Malins, Mark ^{[12
]}

Lawrence, Anna ^{[6
]}

Kirby, Keith J. ^{[13
]}

Godbold, Douglas ^{[10
]}

Charman, Elisabeth ^{[14
]}

Boshier, David ^{[1
]}

Bosbeer, Sasha ^{[15
]}

Arnold, J. E. Michael ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Oxford, Dept Plant Sci, Oxford OX1 3RB, England

[2] Sylva Fdn, Little Wittenham OX14 4RA, England

[3] Univ Aberdeen, Inst Biol & Environm Sci, Dept Plant & Soil Sci, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, Scotland

[4] Univ Sheffield, Sch Med, Sheffield S10 2RX, S Yorkshire, England

[5] Univ Cumbria, Natl Sch Forestry, Penrith CA11 0AH, Cumbria, England

[6] Alice Holt Lodge, Forest Res, Farnham GU10 4LH, Surrey, England

[7] Woodland Trust, Grantham NG31 6LL, Lincolnshire, England

[8] Forestry Commiss, Edinburgh EH12 7AT, Midlothian, Scotland

[9] Lockhart Garratt, Corby NN17 5JG, Northants, England

[10] Bangor Univ, Sch Environm Nat Resources & Geog, Bangor LL57 2UW, Gwynedd, Wales

[11] Nat England, Cheltenham GL50 3RA, England

[12] Univ Bath, Dept Social & Policy Sci, Bath BA2 7AY, Avon, England

[13] Nat England, Peterborough PE1 1UA, England

[14] Royal Soc Protect Birds, Sandy SG19 2DL, Beds, England

[15] Sylvan Consulting Ecologists, Galway, Ireland

来源：

FORESTRY | 2010年 / 83卷 / 04期

基金：

英国自然环境研究理事会;

关键词：

ENVIRONMENTAL-POLICY; COMMUNICATION;

D O I：

10.1093/forestry/cpq018

中图分类号：

S7 [林业];

学科分类号：

0829 ; 0907 ;

摘要：

There is growing interest in widening public participation in research and practice in environmental decision making and an awareness of the importance of framing research questions that reflect the needs of policy and practice. The Top Ten Questions for Forestry (T10Q) project was undertaken in 2008 to investigate a process for compiling and prioritizing a meaningful set of research questions, which were considered by participating stakeholders to have high policy relevance, using a collaborative bottom-up approach involving professionals from a wide set of disciplines of relevance to modern forestry. Details are presented of the process, which involved an online survey and a workshop for participants in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Survey responses were received from 481 researchers, policy makers and woodland owners, who contributed 1594 research questions. These were debated and prioritized by 51 people attending the workshop. The project engaged people who were outside the traditional boundaries of the discipline, a trend likely to be more important in the future, particularly in the light of complex problems connected with climate change, bioenergy production or health and well-being, for example, which require multidisciplinary partnerships within the research and policy communities. The project demonstrated the potential for combining web-based methods and focussed group discussions to collect, debate and prioritize a large number of researchable questions considered of importance to a broad spectrum of people with an active interest in natural resource management.

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