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- Title
Use of Science and Modeling by Practitioners in Landscape-Scale Management Decisions.
- Authors
Scientist, Eric M White Research Social; Professor, Kreg Lindberg Associate; Specialist, Emily Jane Davis Assistant Professor and Extension; Forester, Thomas A Spies Research
- Abstract
Scientific knowledge and tools have central roles in contemporary federal forest programs that promote restoration in large landscapes and across ownerships. Although we know much about the role of science in decisionmaking and ways that science can be better linked to practice, we know less about manager perspectives about science and science tools, and the perceived role of both in planning. We surveyed Forest Service resource managers in the western United States to address this knowledge gap. Respondents engaged most frequently with science via reading research publications; direct engagement with scientists was less common. There was widespread agreement that science was a useful input to decisionmaking. Managers believed more weight should be placed on science in decisionmaking in cases of low public consensus than in cases of high public consensus. Managers with the most frequent engagement with science generally held more positive views towards science and its role in decisionmaking.
- Subjects
SCIENTIFIC knowledge; DECISION making; UNITED States. Foreign Service; FOREST management; LAND tenure
- Publication
Journal of Forestry, 2019, Vol 117, Issue 3, p267
- ISSN
0022-1201
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jofore/fvz007