Testing a novel approach for synthesising the evidence of the effectiveness of conservation interventions

测试一种综合保护干预措施有效性证据的新方法

• 批准号: NE/F008627/1
• 负责人: William Sutherland
• 金额: $ 27.12万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FF008627%2F1
• 关键词: Testing; novel; approach; synthesising; evidence

Considerable effort and money has been devoted to determining the ecological consequences of a wide range of interventions, which has resulted in an extensive literature. However, research shows that practitioners only rarely use this literature when making decisions as to which intervention to implement. Furthermore, many accepted beliefs in conservation practice are actually incorrect. Scientific results are traditionally published in academic journals. However, it is often difficult for practitioners to extract the pertinent information from these. The major problems are that most practitioners do not have access to the Web of Science or equivalent scientific search engines, it is often difficult to target the search for conservation interventions without producing vast numbers of irrelevent titles and many practitioners do not have the training to extract the conservation message from academic papers. Evidence-based medicine has revolutionised medical practice in that the collection, review, and dissemination of the evidence now underpins most medical practice. We suggest that conservation would benefit from a similar revolution and propose that evidence-based conservation should become a standard approach. In this model we envisage practitioners having easy access to summaries of the literature, that they would monitor the effectiveness of some interventions for which the evidence is weak or ambiguous, that there would be reviews and meta analyses where there are numerous studies relating to one issue, and there would be synopses summarising the evidence for the major interventions. This proposal seeks to provide an open access database of the majority of the papers relating to the consequences for birds of conservation interventions. Syntheses of the consequences of a wide range of interventions will be a key output. Full use of the output will also require a change in approaches to conservation. The involvement of all the major organisations involved in bird conservation (BirdLife International - a partnership of over 100 national global bird conservation organisations, British Trust for Ornithology, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Natural England, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Scottish Natural Heritage and World Conservation Monitoring Centre) will both ensure that the project is as required by practitioners but will also ensure that the results will be widely used both in the UK and internationally. Training in the use of evidence-based conservation will be provided through workshops in the UK, Africa and Asia and this work will also be promoted through stands at UK and international meetings. The longer term objective is to change global conservation practice so that the decisions effecting biodiversity are routinely based upon the scientific literature. The expectation is that we can build upon the work and experience of this project to expand it to incorporate all the major aspect of conservation in collaboration with a wide range of other organisation so that the use of evidence in decision making becomes standard practice This proposal would allow us to make a substantial step forward in achieving our objective of reforming global conservation practice.

大量的努力和金钱致力于确定各种干预措施的生态后果，这导致了广泛的文献。但是，研究表明，从业者在决定要实施哪种干预措施时很少使用这些文献。此外，许多在保护实践中接受的信念实际上是不正确的。传统上，科学结果在学术期刊上发表。但是，从业者通常很难从中提取相关信息。主要问题是，大多数从业人员无法访问科学网络或同等的科学搜索引擎，通常很难针对寻找保护干预措施而不会产生大量无关的标题，而且许多从业人员也没有从学术文件中提取保护信息的培训。循证医学彻底改变了医学实践，因为目前的收集，审查和传播证据是大多数医学实践的基础。我们建议保护将从类似的革命中受益，并提出基于证据的保护应该成为标准方法。在该模型中，我们设想可以轻松访问文献摘要的从业者，他们将监控证据薄弱或模棱两可的某些干预措施的有效性，将进行审查和元分析，其中有许多与一个问题有关的研究，并且会有概要总结了主要干预措施的证据。该提案旨在提供有关大多数论文的开放访问数据库，该论文涉及保护鸟类干预措施的后果。多种干预措施的后果的合成将是关键输出。全面使用输出还需要改变保护方法。参与鸟类保护的所有主要组织的参与（鸟类国际 - 由100多个国家全球鸟类保护组织，英国鸟类学信任，鸟类学信任，联合大自然保护委员会，自然英格兰，皇家保护鸟类保护，苏格兰自然遗产和世界保护中心的皇家学会）将确保该项目与实践者相同，并确保该项目都可以确保该项目都可以确保这两者都可以广泛地及其范围。将通过英国，非洲和亚洲的研讨会提供有关循证保护的培训，这项工作也将通过英国和国际会议的立场来促进。长期目标是改变全球保护实践，以便根据科学文献通常基于生物多样性的决策。期望我们可以基于该项目的工作和经验来扩展其与其他各种组织合作纳入保护的所有主要方面，以便在决策中使用证据成为标准实践，这一建议将使我们能够实现我们的目标，以实现我们改革全球保护实践的目标。

项目成果

Bird Conservation: Global evidence for the effects of interventions

鸟类保护：干预措施效果的全球证据

• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Williams David R.

A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2015.

2015 年全球保护问题的地平线扫描。

• DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.11.002
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: Trends in ecology & evolution
• 影响因子: 16.8
• 作者: Sutherland WJ

A Transparent Process for "Evidence-Informed" Policy Making

• DOI: 10.1111/conl.12046
• 发表时间: 2014-03-01
• 期刊: CONSERVATION LETTERS
• 影响因子: 8.5
• 作者: Dicks, Lynn V.;Hodge, Ian;Sutherland, William J.
• 通讯作者: Sutherland, William J.

A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2014.

• DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2013.11.004
• 发表时间: 2014-01
• 期刊: Trends in ecology & evolution
• 影响因子: 16.8
• 作者: Sutherland WJ;Aveling R;Brooks TM;Clout M;Dicks LV;Fellman L;Fleishman E;Gibbons DW;Keim B;Lickorish F;Monk KA;Mortimer D;Peck LS;Pretty J;Rockström J;Rodríguez JP;Smith RK;Spalding MD;Tonneijck FH;Watkinson AR
• 通讯作者: Watkinson AR

Voluntary non-monetary approaches for implementing conservation

实施保护的自愿非货币方法

• DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.03.013
• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: Biological Conservation
• 影响因子: 5.9
• 作者: Santangeli A