Integration of social and ecological sciences for natural resource decision making: challenges and opportunities

摘要: The last 25 years have witnessed growing recognition that natural resource management decisions depend as much on understanding humans and their social interactions the between non-human organisms environment. Decision science provides a framework for integrating ecological factors into decision, but challenges to integration remain. decision-analytic elicits values preferences help articulate objectives, then evaluates outcomes of alternative actions achieve these objectives. Integrating steps can be hindered by failing include scientists more than stakeholder-process facilitators, assuming specific skills are commonplace scientists, misperceptions data inherently qualitative, timescale mismatches iterating through decision analysis collecting relevant data, difficulties in predicting human behavior, failures institutions recognize importance this integration. We engage challenges, suggest solutions them, helping move forward biological/ecological knowledge considerations decision-making.