Decision Making and Adaptation Processes to Climate Change

Abstract

Climate change imposes certain challenges not only to ecosystems but to societies as well. The change in environmental conditions makes necessary to review the decision-making process related to adaptation to climate change. This review should consider future risks or current conditions of vulnerability through existing mechanisms in organizations or societies. From this analysis onwards, processes must be developed allowing, either to prepare the way to face expected future impacts or to decrease the current vulnerability regarding climate by creating more resilient systems. In this context, the role of the academy, as a knowledge source, results fundamentally. Nevertheless, this highlight the need to review and improve the communication processes from academy towards different interests groups by means of the co-production and strengthening of links among different society components.

Directive management and pedagogical innovation model for public universities

“…In Table 2, 60% of teachers express that the benefit of the decisions they make is regular according to the needs of their students, so they must improve the decision-making process by collecting data, generating alternatives and selecting a course of action. This agrees with Bustos and Vicuña (2016) and Gallardo et al (2012) who consider that it is essential for the teacher to work on strengthening their assessment skills, specifically those of a formative nature, which allow a close monitoring of the student's teaching and learning process to achieve the goals and proposed objectives.…”

Extreme hydroclimatic events in rural communities of the Brazilian Amazon: local perceptions of change, impacts, and adaptation

“…Nevertheless, as extreme floods continued happening in the following years, long-term responses became more common. The benefits of long-term adaptation were then considered worth their higher costs by participants because a future extreme event seemed more probable to them, a rationale that can also be found in the literature (Bustos and Vicuña 2016 ).…”

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“…Decision-making process in institutions allows defining problems, collecting data, generating alternatives and selecting courses of action (Bustos & Vicuña, 2016). Teachers constantly make decisions to conceive, apply and design assessment instruments in the classroom that improve teaching.…”