Pressured researchers in ecology and conservation demand support to guarantee fair interactions with stakeholders

作者：Charlotte Roemer, Céline Fromont, Sébastien Barot, Denis Couvet, Alain Danet, Jean‐Louis Martin, Marie‐Laure Navas, Florence Matutini, Anne‐Christine Monnet · 发表于：Biological Conservation · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111324 · 被引用次数：2 · 研究领域：Sustainability and Climate Change Governance、Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management、Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education

Facing the current decline of biodiversity, researchers in ecology and conservation interact with socioeconomic stakeholders to involve their research more closely with society. Yet previous research in other domains showed that these interactions sometimes affect the well-being of researchers and the balance between private and public interests in science. We conducted a survey aiming to assess the different outcomes of these interactions to highlight benefits and disadvantages depending on the types of stakeholders. We asked French researchers in ecology and conservation to describe their experiences with different stakeholders. We also asked them to identify the most relevant institutional organisations to supervise collaborations and to provide support to mitigate the potential impacts of negative interactions with socioeconomic stakeholders. We obtained answers from 152 respondents. They reported interactions with local authorities, governmental agencies, NGOs, ministries, consulting firms, and farmers, among others. Researchers reported more positive than negative experiences, and several highlighted the satisfaction of working with socioeconomic stakeholders. However, interactions with some stakeholders who fund research or provide logistic support, especially private groups such as the tourism industry, the wind energy industry and the banking sector, led to a high proportion of negative experiences. They included greenwashing, the manufacture of doubt and the abandon...