| Abstract
| - Les collaborations scientifiques et notamment transdisciplinaires sont en plein essor. Une enquête nationale a été réalisée pour documenter les collaborations entre chercheurs et gestionnaires d’espaces naturels protégés, à partir des réponses et témoignages des intéressés. Elle a été suivie de rencontres nationales qui visaient à approfondir ses résultats et à dégager des recommandations concrètes pour favoriser des collaborations jugées satisfaisantes par les deux parties. Ce travail montre que les collaborations constituent des processus dynamiques diversifiés et complexes qui s’inscrivent dans une pluralité de cadres et de modèles, et qu’elles sont influencées par des facteurs structurels, institutionnels et personnels. Le rôle d’autres acteurs dans ces collaborations et la situation particulière des sciences humaines et sociales ainsi que des jeunes chercheurs restent parmi les points à approfondir.
- Transdisciplinarity in practice. Collaborations between researchers and managers of protected areas. Scientific collaborations are on the rise. This has generated the emergence of collaboration studies, which encourage symmetrical approaches to collaboration, considering both their inputs and their limits and cost. Transdisciplinary collaborations, i.e. collaborations between researchers and non-academic actors aiming to address “wicked” issues, have followed the same trend and generated the same interest. Researchers and protected areas (PA) managers who collaborate form a community of practice at the interface between science and management. The French Foundation for Research on Biodiversity coordinated a national survey to document their collaborations on which little was known so far. A national meeting gathering actors interested in these collaborations was then organized to discuss the results and work out recommendations. The survey shows that collaborations are complex dynamic processes that can develop in a number of frames and models and are influenced by structural, institutional, and personal factors. Several other aspects need investigating, including the role of other actors in these collaborations, the specific situation of human and social sciences, and that of students. The decision to define “good collaboration” as deemed satisfactory by both researchers and PA managers led to include recommendations about the need for discussions throughout the collaborative process and for individual and institutional reflexivity.
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