Speaking their language – development of a multilingual decision-support tool for communicating invasive species risks to decision makers and stakeholders
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Date | 2021-01 | ||||||||||||||||
Language | English | ||||||||||||||||
Author(s) | Copp Gordon H.1, 2, 3, Vilizzi Lorenzo3, Wei Hui4, Li Shan5, Piria Marina6, Al-Faisal Abbas J.7, Almeida David8, Atique Usman9, Al-Wazzan Zainab10, Bakiu Rigers11, 12, Bašić Tea1, Bui Thuyet D.13, Canning-Clode João14, 15, 16, Castro Nuno14, 17, Chaichana Ratcha18, Çoker Tülin19, Dashinov Dimitriy20, Ekmekçi F.Güler21, Erős Tibor22, Ferincz Árpád23, Ferreira Teresa24, Giannetto Daniela25, Gilles Allan S.26, Głowacki Łukasz3, Goulletquer Philippe![]() |
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Affiliation(s) | 1 : Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, U.K 2 : Centre for Ecology, Environment and Sustainability, Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset, U.K 3 : Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland 4 : Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fisheries Science, Guangzhou, China; Key Laboratory of Recreational Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Guangzhou, China 5 : Natural History Research Center, Shanghai Natural History Museum, Branch of Shanghai Science & Technology Museum, Shanghai, China 6 : University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Fisheries, Apiculture, Wildlife Management and Special Zoology, Zagreb, Croatia 7 : Marine Science Centre, University of Basrah, Iraq 8 : Departamento de Ciencias Médicas Básicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid, Spain 9 : College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea & Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan 10 : Environment Public Authority, Kuwait 11 : Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Agricultural University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania 12 : Albanian Center for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development, Tirana, Albania 13 : Faculty of Marine Science, Hanoi University of Natural Resources and Environment, Hanoi, Vietnam 14 : MARE-Madeira – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Quinta do Lorde Marina, Caniçal, Madeira, Portugal 15 : Centre of IMAR of the University of the Azores, Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, Horta, Azores, Portugal 16 : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, USA 17 : MARE-UL – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal 18 : Department of Environmental Technology and Management, Faculty of Environment, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand 19 : Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Fisheries, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla, Turkey 20 : Department of General and Applied Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria 21 : Hydrobiology Section, Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey 22 : Balaton Limnological Institute – Tihany and Danube Research Institute-Budapest, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary 23 : Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Szent István University, Gödöllő, Hungary 24 : Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Portugal 25 : Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla, Turkey 26 : The Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines 27 : Scientific Direction, French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), Nantes, France 28 : Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia 29 : Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, and Novosibirsk branch of Russian Federal «Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography», Novosibirsk, Russia 30 : Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan 31 : Department of Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia 32 : Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand 33 : College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea 34 : Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic 35 : University “St. Cyril and Methodius”, Institute of Animal Science – Fisheries Department, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia 36 : Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biological Resources & Inland Waters, Anavissos, Attica, Greece 37 : Fishery Research Laboratory, Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan 38 : Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Sangji University, Wonju, Republic of Ko 39 : Department of Animal Ecology and Physiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands 40 : Laboratory of Hydrobiology, Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus 41 : Department of Biology & Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology & Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany, and Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural & Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany 42 : Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy 43 : CONABIO Liga Periférico Insurgentes Sur 4903, Cd de México, México 44 : Freshwater Fish Ecology Laboratory, Ecosystem Science and Management Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada 45 : Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania 46 : Department of Biodiversity and Ecosystems Management, Environmental Sciences Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran 47 : Insititute of Zoology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia 48 : Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Aquatic Resources, Division of Coastal Research, Öregrund, Sweden 49 : Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development, Tulcea, Romania 50 : Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University and Inter-University Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, Israel 51 : Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, Research Center for the Natural and Applied Sciences, Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines 52 : Department of Fisheries, Regional Unit of Thesprotia, Region of Epirus, Igoumenitsa, Greece 53 : School of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 54 : Institute Umbra, Ljubljana, Slovenia 55 : Department of Aquatic Science, Faculty of Science, Burapha University, Thailand 56 : Faculty of Biology & Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković”, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia 57 : Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Agency, Vietnam Environment Administration, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Nam Tu Liem District, Ha Noi, Vietnam 58 : Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, (FI), Italy 59 : Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Brussels, Belgium 60 : Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, México |
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Source | Environmental Modelling & Software (1364-8152) (Elsevier BV), 2021-01 , Vol. 135 , P. 104900 (11p.) | ||||||||||||||||
DOI | 10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104900 | ||||||||||||||||
WOS© Times Cited | 33 | ||||||||||||||||
Keyword(s) | Ecology of languages, Aquatic Species Invasiveness Screening Kit, Alien species, Risk identification, Global applicability | ||||||||||||||||
Abstract | Environmental changes due to non-native species introductions and translocations are a global concern. Whilst understanding the causes of bioinvasions is important, there is need for decision-support tools that facilitate effective communication of the potential risks of invasive non-native species to stakeholders. Decision-support tools have been developed mostly in English language only, which increases linguistic uncertainty associated with risk assessments undertaken by assessors not of English mother tongue and who need to communicate outcomes to local stakeholders. To reduce language-based uncertainty, the ‘ecology-of-language’ paradigm was applied when developing the Aquatic Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (AS-ISK), a decision-support tool that offers 32 languages in which to carry out screenings and communicate outcomes to stakeholders. Topics discussed include uncertainty related to language-specific issues encountered during the AS-ISK translation and the potential benefits of a multilingual decision-support tool for reducing linguistic uncertainty and enhancing communication between scientists, environmental managers, policy and decision makers. |
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