Factors influencing the use of decision support tools in the development and design of conservation policy

摘要: There are many examples of decision support tools used to analyse information with the intention assisting conservation managers and policy makers in their making. We structured interviews collect on seven case studies from Australia New Zealand identify factors that led use (or non-use) when developing policies. The explored hypotheses derived existing literature policy. Qualitative analysis indicated key influencing uptake a tool include alignment objectives context policy, its ability be useful even presence missing data. Two other had been suggested past were not perceived by interviewees as important above two: champion for within management agency, time required apply tool. also revealed number additional influenced or non-use we extracted literature: ambiguity about objectives, autonomy employee costs applying