Scholars have argued that the success of conservation instruments depends on improved scientific knowledge in linking ecosystem functioning with value-reflecting prices to optimize the production and delivery of ecosystem services (ES). However, these scholars assume that greater sophistication of scientific inquiry rests on ES thinking, without recognizing that the ES framework represents one social rationality in articulating human–nature relationships. Here, we discuss why a singular focus on ‘getting the science right’ for environmental policy oversimplifies the many socio-political consequences underlying the use of ES as an ‘objective’ science. We argue that the process of doing science through reflection on social diversity and power dimensions better reveals the extent to which PES interventions are perceived, debated, negotiated and strategically adapted.

学者们认为，保护手段的成功取决于提高科学知识，将生态系统功能与反映价值的价格联系起来，以优化生态系统服务（ES）的生产和提供。但是，这些学者认为，科学探究的复杂性更多地取决于ES思维，而没有意识到ES框架在表达人与自然的关系时代表了一种社会理性。在这里，我们讨论了为什么仅关注环境政策的“获得科学权利”会过度简化将ES用作“客观”科学的许多社会政治后果。我们认为这个过程 通过对社会多样性和权力维度的反思进行科学研究的方法更好地揭示了人们对PES干预措施的认识，辩论，谈判和战略适应程度。