Scientific studies reveal significant consequences of climate change for nature, from ecosystems to individual species. Such studies are important factors in policy decisions on forest conservation and management in Europe. However, while research has shown that climate change research start to impact on European conservation policies like Natura 2000, climate change information has yet to translate into management practices. This article contributes to the on-going debates about science-society relations and knowledge utilization by exploring and analysing the interface between scientific knowledge and forest management practice. We focus specifically on climate change debates in conservation policy and on how managers of forest areas in Europe perceive and use climate change ecology. Our findings show that forest managers do not necessarily deny the potential importance of climate change for their management practices, at least in the future, but have reservations about the current usefulness of available knowledge for their own areas and circumstances. This suggests that the science-management interface is not as politicized as current policy debates about climate change and that the use of climate change ecology is situated in practice. We conclude the article by discussing what forms of knowledge may enable responsible and future oriented management in practice focusing specifically on the role of reflexive experimentation and monitoring.

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在保护实践中管理气候变化：山毛榉森林管理中科学与管理界面的探索。


科学研究揭示了气候变化对自然（从生态系统到单个物种）的重大影响。此类研究是欧洲森林保护和管理政策决策的重要因素。然而，虽然研究表明气候变化研究开始对像 Natura 2000 这样的欧洲保护政策产生影响，但气候变化信息尚未转化为管理实践。本文通过探索和分析科学知识与森林管理实践之间的界面，为正在进行的有关科学与社会关系和知识利用的争论做出了贡献。我们特别关注保护政策中的气候变化辩论以及欧洲森林地区的管理者如何看待和利用气候变化生态学。我们的研究结果表明，森林管理者不一定否认气候变化对其管理实践的潜在重要性，至少在未来是如此，但对当前现有知识对其所在地区和环境的有用性持保留态度。这表明科学与管理的界面并不像当前有关气候变化的政策辩论那样政治化，而且气候变化生态学的使用是在实践中进行的。我们通过讨论哪些形式的知识可以在实践中实现负责任的、面向未来的管理来结束本文，特别关注反思性实验和监控的作用。