Hofmann, Benjamin; Ingold, Karin; Stamm, Christian; Ammann, Priska; Eggen, Rik I L; Finger, Robert; Fuhrimann, Samuel; Lienert, Judit; Mark, Jennifer; McCallum, Chloe; Probst-Hensch, Nicole; Reber, Ueli; Tamm, Lucius; Wiget, Milena; Winkler, Mirko S; Zachmann, Lucca; Hoffmann, Sabine (2023). Barriers to evidence use for sustainability: Insights from pesticide policy and practice. Ambio, 52(2), pp. 425-439. Springer 10.1007/s13280-022-01790-4
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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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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Political Science |
UniBE Contributor: |
Ingold, Karin Mirjam, Reber, Ueli |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics |
ISSN: |
0044-7447 |
Publisher: |
Springer |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
21 Nov 2022 15:35 |
Last Modified: |
16 Dec 2022 00:15 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1007/s13280-022-01790-4 |
PubMed ID: |
36394771 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Agriculture Evidence Pesticides Policy and practice Sustainability Transformation |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/174871 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/174871 |
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