Environmental knowledge is a crucial input for public and private decision-making, yet often useful environmental knowledge appears to be unusable for decision-makers. To better understand how usable knowledge can be produced, we need to build on a better understanding of decision-making processes. We distinguish three different logics of decision-making and discuss their implications for knowledge use: (1) the logic of consequentiality, rooted in theories of rational choice, in which environmental knowledge is used because of its utilitarian value; (2) the logic of appropriateness, rooted in institutional theories, in which environmental knowledge is used because it fits existing rules and routines; and (3) the logic of meaningfulness, rooted in theories of sensemaking and interpretation, in which environmental knowledge is used because it makes sense to decision-makers. The theory and practice of environmental knowledge (co-)production can profit from considering these different logics of decision-making.

环境知识是公共和私人决策的关键输入，但是有用的环境知识通常似乎对决策者不可用。为了更好地理解如何产生可用的知识，我们需要对决策过程有更好的理解。我们区分了三种不同的决策逻辑，并讨论了它们对知识使用的影响：（1）结果性逻辑，植根于理性选择理论，在这种理论中，环境知识由于其实用价值而被使用；（2）根植于制度理论的适当性逻辑，其中使用环境知识是因为它符合现有的规则和惯例；（3）有意义的逻辑，植根于意义分析和解释理论，使用环境知识的原因在于对决策者有意义。通过考虑这些决策的不同逻辑，可以受益于环境知识（共同）生产的理论和实践。