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Porträtt av Henrik Smith. Foto.

Henrik Smith

Professor

Porträtt av Henrik Smith. Foto.

A Transparent Process for "Evidence-Informed" Policy Making

Författare

  • Lynn V. Dicks
  • Ian Hodge
  • Nicola P. Randall
  • Joern P. W. Scharlemann
  • Gavin M. Siriwardena
  • Henrik Smith
  • Rebecca K. Smith
  • William J. Sutherland

Summary, in English

Political institutions are keen to use the best available scientific knowledge in decision-making. For environmental policy, relevant scientific evidence can be complex and extensive, so expert judgment is frequently relied upon, without clear links to the evidence itself. We propose a new transparent process for incorporating research evidence into policy decisions, involving independent synopsis of evidence relating to all possible policy options combined with expert evaluation of what the evidence means for specific policy questions. We illustrate the process using reforms of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy currently being negotiated. Under the reform proposals, 30% of direct payments to farmers will become conditional upon three "compulsory greening measures." Independently, we compiled and evaluated experimental evidence for the effects of 85 interventions to protect wildlife on northern European farmland, 12 of which correspond to aspects of the compulsory greening measures. Our evaluation clearly indicates evidence of consistent wildlife benefits for some, but not all, of the greening measures. The process of evidence synopsis with expert evaluation has three advantages over existing efforts to incorporate evidence into policy decisions: it provides a clear evidence audit trail, allows rapid response to new policy contexts, and clarifies sources of uncertainty.

Avdelning/ar

  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

119-125

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Conservation Letters

Volym

7

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Earth and Related Environmental Sciences

Nyckelord

  • CAP reform
  • scientific assessment
  • Europe
  • evidence-based conservation
  • Agriculture

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1755-263X