Barriers to evidence use for sustainability: Insights from pesticide policy and practice.

Autor: Hofmann B; Department of Environmental Social Sciences, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 133, 8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland. benjamin.hofmann@eawag.ch., Ingold K; Department of Environmental Social Sciences, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 133, 8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland.; Institute of Political Science, University of Bern, Fabrikstrasse 8, 3012, Bern, Switzerland.; Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012, Bern, Switzerland., Stamm C; Department of Environmental Chemistry, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 133, 8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland., Ammann P; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Kreuzstrasse 2, 4123, Allschwil, Switzerland.; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland., Eggen RIL; Directorate, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 133, 8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland.; Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland., Finger R; Agricultural Economics and Policy Group, ETH Zürich, Sonneggstrasse 33, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland., Fuhrimann S; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Kreuzstrasse 2, 4123, Allschwil, Switzerland.; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland., Lienert J; Department of Environmental Social Sciences, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 133, 8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland., Mark J; Department of Crop Sciences, FiBL: Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Ackerstrasse 113, 5070, Frick, Switzerland., McCallum C; Agricultural Economics and Policy Group, ETH Zürich, Sonneggstrasse 33, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland., Probst-Hensch N; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Kreuzstrasse 2, 4123, Allschwil, Switzerland.; Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland., Reber U; Department of Environmental Social Sciences, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 133, 8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland., Tamm L; Department of Crop Sciences, FiBL: Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Ackerstrasse 113, 5070, Frick, Switzerland., Wiget M; Department of Environmental Social Sciences, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 133, 8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland., Winkler MS; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Kreuzstrasse 2, 4123, Allschwil, Switzerland.; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland., Zachmann L; Agricultural Economics and Policy Group, ETH Zürich, Sonneggstrasse 33, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland., Hoffmann S; Department of Environmental Social Sciences, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 133, 8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland.; TdLab, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Universitätstrasse 16, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Ambio [Ambio] 2023 Feb; Vol. 52 (2), pp. 425-439. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Nov 17.
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-022-01790-4
Abstrakt: Calls for supporting sustainability through more and better research rest on an incomplete understanding of scientific evidence use. We argue that a variety of barriers to a transformative impact of evidence arises from diverse actor motivations within different stages of evidence use. We abductively specify this variety in policy and practice arenas for three actor motivations (truth-seeking, sense-making, and utility-maximizing) and five stages (evidence production, uptake, influence on decisions, effects on sustainability outcomes, and feedback from outcome evaluations). Our interdisciplinary synthesis focuses on the sustainability challenge of reducing environmental and human health risks of agricultural pesticides. It identifies barriers resulting from (1) truth-seekers' desire to reduce uncertainty that is complicated by evidence gaps, (2) sense-makers' evidence needs that differ from the type of evidence available, and (3) utility-maximizers' interests that guide strategic evidence use. We outline context-specific research-policy-practice measures to increase evidence use for sustainable transformation in pesticides and beyond.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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