Knowing But Not Doing: Selecting Priority Conservation Areas and the Research–Implementation Gap

By A. Knight, Richard M. Cowling, Mathieu Rouget, A. Balmford, Amanda Talita Lombard, B. Campbell. Conservation Biology, 2008

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Contemporary forest restoration: A review emphasizing function (2014, background): “A widespread institutional problem in natural resources is the chasm between research results and management implementation known as the ‘‘knowing-doing gap’’ (Pullin et al., 2004; Knight et al., 2008; Esler et al., 2010).”
Defining conservation priorities for freshwater fishes according to taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity (2011, background): “Thus, our study presents an opportunity to bridge the ‘‘researchimplementation’’ gap (Knight et al. 2008) by meeting the needs of conservation practitioners (i.e., matching the scale of the conservation plan to the most realistic scale for implementation), as well as making the results readily…”
From Publications to Public Actions: When Conservation Biologists Bridge the Gap between Research and Implementation (2010, background): “…however, are these guidelines effectively implemented (Gelderblom et al. 2003, Cowling 2005, Balmford and Cowling 2006, Knight and Cowling 2008, Knight et al. 2008), and there is increasing acknowledgment of a great divide between conservation science and action (Pfeffer and Sutton 1999, Opdam…”
Bridging the gap: a genetic assessment framework for population‐level threatened plant conservation prioritization and decision‐making (2016, background): “…is a strong connection between researchers and practitioners, such as where scientists are embedded in a conservation agency, or when practitioners have directly solicited the research (Hogbin et al., 2000; Knight et al., 2008; Mace & Purvis, 2008; Frankham, 2010; Hulme, 2014; Guerin et al., 2015).”
Placing Transdisciplinarity in Context: A Review of Approaches to Connect Scholars, Society and Action (2019, background): “However, actual applications of evidence-based conservation remain scarce, as much of the published research is presented without conservation action [100], because researchers never planned for implementation of their findings.”
Understanding the Motivations and Satisfactions of Volunteers to Improve the Effectiveness of Citizen Science Programs (2015, background): “The absence of an evidence-based approach for supporting conservation decision making can be rectified by proactively acknowledging and addressing the research– implementation gap (Knight et al. 2008; Sunderland et al. 2009).”
Conservation stakeholder network mapping, analysis, and weaving (2011, background): “…they produced, have been reported in applied fields such as public health, counterterrorism, and business (Table 1), but we are aware of only one in natural resources management (Prell et al. 2009), suggesting there may be a research–implementation gap (Knight et al. 2008) in natural resources SNA.”
Diminishing return on investment for biodiversity data in conservation planning (2008, background): “This emphasizes the importance of investment in other types of data, including social, human, and economic characteristics of regions to help reduce the research-implementation gap (Knight et al. 2008).”
Current mismatch between research and conservation efforts: The need to study co-occurring invasive plant species (2013, background): “This issue mirrors, but is distinct from, the acknowledged ‘‘knowing-doing’’ gap in conservation (Knight et al., 2008) and invasion (Esler et al.”
Predicting species distributions for conservation decisions (2013, background): “The lack of information exchange across the research/management boundary reflects a failure of researchers to answer real conservation management questions (Knight et al. 2008), and a failure of decision makers to capitalise on useful research outputs (Schmolke et al. 2010; Addison et al. 2013).”
Seed dispersal in changing landscapes. (2012, background): “Linking ecological research and conservation practice is a major challenge in conservation biology (Knight et al., 2008).”
Ecosystem Services, Land-Cover Change, and Stakeholders: Finding a Sustainable Foothold for a Semiarid Biodiversity Hotspot (2009, background): “…final objectives are to foster informed decision making; transform attitudes, behavior, and institutions; and develop appropriate capacity, competencies, and ownership, then the way we conduct our science needs to change (Mitchell et al. 2004, Max-Neef 2005, Hadorn et al. 2006, Knight et al. 2008).”
How wide is the “knowing-doing” gap in invasion biology? (2010, background): “In recent years, the gap between knowledge and action has been highlighted in a range of related conservation practice disciplines, such as conservation planning (Knight et al. 2008), resource management (Shackleton et al.”
Informed opportunism for conservation planning in the Solomon Islands (2011, background): “…on understanding the ecology of the focal area, there is widespread recognition in the conservation community that the recommendations of systematic conservation assessments based on ecological information alone will be, at best, challenging to implement (Knight et al. 2008; Smith et al. 2009).”
Endemic species: Contribution to community uniqueness, effect of habitat alteration, and conservation priorities (2011, methodology): “…crisis that we are currently facing requires priority setting at global, regional, and local scales in order to concentrate limited resources on the most important conservation needs (Darwall and Vie, 2005; Groom et al., 2006; Knight et al., 2008; Mittermeier et al., 1998; Williams et al., 2002).”