Are ecosystem service studies presenting the right information for decision making?

Wright, William C.; Eppink, Florian V.; Greenhalgh, Suzie

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.03.002

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“…However, the uptake of the concept in general and of specific ecosystem services in policy decision making ('decision making' throughout this paper) seems to have occurred slowly and perhaps not as comprehensively as initially expected (Bouwma et al, 2018;Schleyer et al, 2015). If and how policy actors consider ecosystem services in decision making has only recently been considered in the literature, as have the factors influencing this adoption (Laurans and Mermet, 2014;Wright et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 91%

“…This suggests a need for insights on how to share ecosystem services information with decision makers in the complex and non-linear policy process. Wright et al (2017) underline the importance of ecosystem services classification, which forms crucial elements that need to be linked with decision maker's motivations and decisions. Such a link can be consolidated either through conceptual use of specific ecosystem services, or their instrumental use (Wright et al, 2017).…”

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“…So, providing well-founded, science-based assessments of the changes in ecosystem services, i.e. instrumental use, is not necessarily sufficient to give the ecosystem services concept weight and significance in decision making (Laurans and Mermet, 2014;Wright et al, 2017). Recent studies suggest that decision makers are more likely to utilize ecosystem services research outcomes if the concept and specific reporting categories have been explained to them and the classification is based on stakeholder consultation (Hauck et al, 2013;King et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…With this paper, we contribute to the literature on the uptake and adoption of ecosystem services in decision making. The majority of this relatively recent body of work has focused on the question if and how ecosystem services information reaches and influences decision making, and relates to how individual ecosystem services have been embedded in existing policies, implemented laws and formal policy processes (Bouwma et al, 2018;Mann et al, 2015;Schleyer et al, 2015;Wright et al, 2017). In our paper we take a step back, by observing arguments of Dutch policy actors in support of a decision that could shape Dutch coastal management in the future.…”

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“…A limitation of this study is that most respondents of the semi-structured questionnaire focused on map-making and have less experience in informing policy-and decision-making with ES maps as other ES practitioners. Recent research shows that current ecosystem service studies do not provide the adequate information that decision-makers need to make instrumental decisions (Wright et al 2017) and that more detailed analysis of practitioners and end-user challenges regarding ES maps is needed (Klein et al 2015).…”

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Policy-makers define our lives to a great extent, and are therefore the people everybody wants to talk to. They receive hundreds of messages in various forms day-by-day with the aim of making them decide for or against something. They are in an especially difficult situation as regards the so-called “wicked” or “diffuse” problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss (Millner and Olivier, 2015; Sharman and Mlambo, 2012; Zaccai and Adams, 2012). These problems are limitedly tackled at the policy level despite their major socio-economic and environmental implications, which is often explained by their complexity with a sense of remoteness of effects (Cardinale et al., 2012; WWF, 2018). Communicating advocacy or scientific messages of biodiversity is therefore both a challenge and an under-researched topic (Bekessy et al., 2018; Posner et al., 2016; Primmer et al., 2015; Wright et al., 2017), where both social and natural sciences and both scientists and practitioners are needed to contribute (Ainscough et al., 2019). In order to be successful in delivering messages, communication not only needs to be self-explanatory and easy to consume but novel as well. It additionally helps if the message arrives in a more extraordinary format to draw even more attention. Based on experiences drawn from a conservation and advocacy NGO’s work, this chapter will divulge various socio-economic theories about creative methods, communication, and influencing decision-makers through a campaign fighting for the preservation of key nature legislation. It will be demonstrated how different EU policy-makers, including representatives of the European Commission and Members of the European Parliament, the general public, and other stakeholders, were addressed with various messages and tools (e.g., short films, social media campaigns, fact sheets, involvement of champions). In addition to other key factors such as public support, knowledge of the target audience and political context, the probable impacts and limitations of these messages will also be elaborated. The relevance to the integration and employment of better socio-economic theories into improving communication is straightforward. It is crucial to tailor-make future advocacy work of “wicked problems” such as biodiversity loss and climate change, since these are not usually backed up by major lobby forces and are, therefore, financed inadequately compared to their significance. Understanding the way in which policy-makers pick up or omit certain messages, as well as what framing, methods and channels are the most effective in delivering them to the policy-makers, is pivotal for a more sustainable future.

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Are ecosystem service studies presenting the right information for decision making?

Cited by 58 publications

References 84 publications

‘Mind the Gap’ between ecosystem services classification and strategic decision making

‘Mind the Gap’ between ecosystem services classification and strategic decision making

Practical solutions for bottlenecks in ecosystem services mapping

How to Make Policy-Makers Care about “Wicked Problems” such as Biodiversity Loss?—The Case of a Policy Campaign

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