Institutional barriers to actionable science: Perspectives from decision support tool creators

Pearman, Olivia; Cravens, Amanda E.

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2021.12.004

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“…Richter Jadwiga et al, 2018), but has seen little exploration with respect to climate impacts. Policymakers and planning practitioners often assess climate information on time horizons of 10 years or fewer (e.g., Bolson et al, 2013;DePolt, 2021;Pearman & Cravens, 2022;Keys et al, 2022). Thus, we portray our results consistently with how information could hypothetically be used for decisions about SAI deployment, governance, and evaluation.…”

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“…Many of the SAI scenarios in these experiments are implemented in highly idealized ways, such as by prescribing the aerosol optical depth fields or reducing the model solar constant (Kravitz et al, 2011), which can produce a very distinct climate response from when SAI is more realistically represented with interactive aerosols (Ferraro et al, 2015;Visioni et al, 2021;Bednarz et al, 2022). These limitations leave large gaps in scientific knowledge of the climate response to SAI scenarios on spatiotemporal scales relevant to policymakers, planning practitioners, and questions of how SAI would affect climate risk inequality (Buck et al, 2014;NASEM, 2021;Pearman & Cravens, 2022).…”

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“…We apply these two framings to explore the cli--3-manuscript submitted to Earth's Future mate response to SAI in the decade after SAI is deployed in GLENS and ARISE-SAI-1.5. Decision makers and planning practitioners frequently assess climate information on timescales of 10 years or fewer (e.g., Bolson et al, 2013;DePolt, 2021;Pearman & Cravens, 2022). We apply our framings to annual mean 2m temperature, annual mean precipitation, and the simple intensity index (a measure of extreme precipitation), and connect these results to global and regional impacts on an assortment of other climate variables selected for their familiarity in Earth science and importance for human and ecological impacts.…”

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Assessing Outcomes in Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Scenarios Shortly After Deployment

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Barnes

Hurrell

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Current global actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are very likely to be insufficient to meet the climate targets outlined under the Paris Agreement. This motivates research on possible methods for intervening in the Earth system to minimize climate risk while decarbonization efforts continue. One such hypothetical climate intervention is stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), where reflective particles would be released into the stratosphere to cool the planet by reducing solar insolation. The climate response to SAI is not well understood, particularly on short-term time horizons frequently used by decision makers and planning practitioners to assess climate information. This knowledge gap limits informed discussion of SAI outside the scientific community. We demonstrate two framings to explore the climate response in the decade after SAI deployment in modeling experiments with parallel SAI and no-SAI simulations. The first framing, which we call a snapshot around deployment, displays change over time within the SAI scenarios and applies to the question “What happens before and after SAI is deployed in the model?” The second framing, the intervention impact, displays the difference between the SAI and no-SAI simulations, corresponding to the question “What is the impact of a given intervention relative to climate change with no intervention?” We apply these framings to annual mean 2-meter temperature, precipitation, and a precipitation extreme in the first two experiments to use large ensembles of Earth system models that comprehensively represent both the SAI injection process and climate response, and connect these results to implications for other climate variables.

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“…To that end, resourcing, and institutional/cultural commitment to support relationship building and offering the time this takes are critical. Such resourcing and organizational support may need organizational reexamination of agendas, norms and constraints (Pearman and Cravens, 2022). The importance of human factors, people's skills and drive towards achieving success not only shows the role of interpersonal relationships but suggests that there is a shortage of formal, institutionalized KE arrangements.…”

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Lessons from bright-spots for advancing knowledge exchange at the interface of marine science and policy

Karcher

Cvitanovic

Putten

et al. 2022

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…The UWI-SRC's movement toward more interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work approaches during "peace time" (Table 2) is in line with efforts in the broader scientific community to provide more impactful and usable research results. Stakeholders have welcomed this type of research as a more practical option aimed at addressing the "usability gap," having a greater focus on real-world issues (Lemos et al, 2012;Kirchhoff et al, 2013;Mauser et al, 2013;Pearman and Cravens, 2022). Despite still lacking some of the methodological structure of some more established research traditions (Felt et al, 2016;Woiwode and Froese, 2021), transdisciplinarity is quickly being embraced as a practical means to understanding complex societal problems requiring input from physical science, social science and indigenous ways of knowing.…”

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More than a warning: Expanding the role of communication in Eastern Caribbean volcano science

2022

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The infrequent nature of volcanic eruptions means that civil authorities and the public may often be unfamiliar with volcanic hazards and may not be fully prepared to deal with them. Many times volcano scientists are required to help governments and citizens understand the threat posed to their lives and property when volcanoes show signs of an imminent eruption. Effectively communicating the potential impact of these events can demand time and skills that these scientists may or may not have. Further, a lack of trusted scientific information can lead to public misinformation and hamper government responses. Although several risk reduction researchers and observatory scientists have advocated for the inclusion of communication specialists in scientific teams, communication resources at many observatories remain under utilised. Using the experience of The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC), this article explores the contribution of a specialist communication team to the work of a volcano monitoring agency. The Education and Outreach (E&O) team at the UWI-SRC manages all the agency’s external communications. The team also works to raise public awareness of geological hazards in the UWI-SRC’s Eastern Caribbean region of responsibility. Within the Caribbean region, most communication research related to disaster risk up until now has focused on communication during crises. Using semi-structured interviews and document review we investigated the impact of strategic communication in a long-term, multi-hazard monitoring programme. A qualitative analysis highlighted the equal importance of crisis communication during unrest and outreach work during quiescent periods. The UWI-SRC’s communication programme has been effective in: 1) supporting scientists’ public communication 2) sustaining stakeholder engagement 3) building physical and social science capacity and 4) strengthening organisational credibility. This article examines the contribution of specialist communication to advisory volcano science throughout the disaster management cycle in the English-speaking Eastern Caribbean. It argues that significant societal value can be added to the scientific work engaged in by advisory scientists by embracing a multi-level communication strategy.

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Institutional barriers to actionable science: Perspectives from decision support tool creators

Cited by 16 publications

References 47 publications

Assessing Outcomes in Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Scenarios Shortly After Deployment

Assessing Outcomes in Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Scenarios Shortly After Deployment

Lessons from bright-spots for advancing knowledge exchange at the interface of marine science and policy

More than a warning: Expanding the role of communication in Eastern Caribbean volcano science

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