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1. Connect the perspectives of managers, stakeholders and scientists. Using standardized scientific methods to relate concrete management actions in an area to acknowledged stakeholders values helps to harmonize the perspectives of managers, stakeholders and scientists on the credibility, salience and legitimacy of knowledge and tools.
2. Connect knowledge along a clarity–complexity axis. A combination of complex scientific methods and simple algorithms and rules of thumb derived from those complex tools helps to connect credibility with saliency and legitimacy in the complexity versus clarity trade-off (Sarkki et al. 2013). Simple algorithms and rules of thumb improve salience and legitimacy, while a potential loss of credibility is mitigated by showing how the simplified knowledge reflects the complex relations between local management measures and local and regional targets.
3. Discussing algorithms and parameters helps to bring about agreement on the measures to be taken. Discussions encourage stakeholders and site managers to enter into a dialogue about each other's values and help to build trust between all parties.
4. Different phases in the decision-making process may need different types of information.
credibility
Using site-specific data and local knowledge to improve tools and methods
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Synthesis
legitimacy
salience
Figure 1. Schematic position of the thesis on creating a better balance between credibility, legitimacy and salience.
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