I’d be interested to know if anyone reading these threads has undertaken a specific collaboration with stakeholders or (especially) user groups to better understand “decision-making processes” involving biodiversity data. The Conservation Biology Institute and its partners are engaging governors’ policy advisors and agency senior staff not only on the kind of data products they need, but how in practice they actually take decisions. Evidence-based? Opportunistic? Whim or political decree? You may laugh, but I think the latter is a lot more common in many countries than we’d all like to admit. Understanding decision processes in practice (not just in theory) is something I’m trying to get a handle on for our Biodiversity Early Warning Systems.
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