Interdisciplinary pressure cooker: environmental risk communication skills for the next generation

Cumiskey, Lydia; Lickiss, Matthew; Trogrlić, Robert Šakić; Ali, Javed

doi:10.5194/gc-2-173-2019

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“…Noone et al, 2019); and in some cases, open-ended questions to capture the authenticity, richness, depth of response, honesty, and candour of the respondent (e.g. Cohen et al, 2013, p. 225;Cumiskey et al, 2019). Yet beyond this, innovations such as pre-and post-graffiti walls (e.g.…”

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Editorial: Geoscience communication – planning to make it publishable

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Abstract. If you are a geoscientist doing work to achieve impact outside academia or engaging different audiences with the geosciences, are you planning to make this publishable? If so, then plan. Such investigations into how people (academics, practitioners, other publics) respond to geoscience can use pragmatic, simple research methodologies accessible to the non-specialist or be more complex. To employ a medical analogy, first aid is useful and the best option in some scenarios, but calling a medic (i.e. a collaborator with experience of geoscience communication or relevant research methods) provides the contextual knowledge to identify a condition and opens up a diverse, more powerful range of treatment options. Here, we expand upon the brief advice in the first editorial of Geoscience Communication (Illingworth et al., 2018), illustrating what constitutes robust and publishable work in this context, elucidating its key elements. Our aim is to help geoscience communicators plan a route to publication and to illustrate how good engagement work that is already being done might be developed into publishable research.

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“…Depending on the demographic of participants, for example, schoolchildren, it may be more appropriate to use methods such as storytelling (e.g. Davis, 2007;Lanza et al, 2014) or drawings (e.g. Özsoy, 2012).…”

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“…For example, meteorologists working on bulletins need to go beyond a narrow role, collaborating across disciplines (McBean and Rodgers, 2009). Cumiskey et al (2019) highlighted that each individual involved in the creation of a forecast product brings with them a unique set of experiences and skills and that effective multidisciplinary co-development requires care and planning to ensure each expert makes recommendations and provides guidance (only) on their area of expertise. Morss et al (2005) emphasise the importance of defined and agreed roles and responsibilities.…”

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“…There remains a gap between the production of complex scientific forecasts and warnings and the operational use of such information by institutional stakeholders in official decisionmaking roles, such as government officials or civil society actors operating in a preparedness, risk reduction, or response capacity, who have a wide range of educational and professional backgrounds and information needs (Morss et al, 2005;McInerny et al, 2014;Stephens et al, 2015;Cumiskey et al, 2019). In particular, there are limited evidence-based guidance publications that document the process of developing natural hazard-related forecast products for institutional decision-makers, and therefore there is limited opportunity to learn from the experience of others.…”

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Development of forecast information for institutional decision-makers: landslides in India and cyclones in Mozambique

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Abstract. There remains a gap between the production of scientifically robust forecasts and the translation of these forecasts into useful information such as daily “bulletins” for decision-makers in early warning systems. There is significant published literature on best practice in communicating risk information but very little to guide and provide advice on the process of how these bulletins have been, or should be, developed. This paper reviews two case studies where bulletins were developed for national and district-level government agencies and humanitarian responders: daily reports in response to cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique and prototype landslide forecast bulletins in the Nilgiris and Darjeeling districts of India. Primary data were collected from producers and intermediaries of the bulletins via interview, and secondary data were analysed on iterative changes in the bulletin development, minutes from internal discussions, and feedback from users to extract learning on both the content and process of developing the bulletins. There were significant similarities in the type of content included in the bulletins, such as the layout, choice of words, and use of visualisation that was consistent with published best practices. Both case studies experienced challenges dealing with uncertainty, complexity, and whether to include advice. There were also similarities in the processes and approaches taken to develop the bulletins. Both case studies took an iterative approach, developed feedback mechanisms, benefitted from experienced multidisciplinary teams, and emphasised the need for strong inter-relationships and the importance and value of preparedness and protocols. A major challenge was the difficulty in balancing science capabilities, including issues related to data scarcity, with user needs, which did not become significantly easier to deal with given more time availability. In particular, there were tensions between developing new forecast products that were urgently needed by users against the limited time for testing and refinement of those forecasts and the risk of misinforming decisions due to uncertainty in the information based on limited data. The findings indicate that whilst more research is needed into existing or best practice processes to develop content for forecast bulletins, there is an existing body of experiential and intuitive knowledge and learning that already exists but that is not yet captured in an appropriate format that could be of significant interest and value to those developing forecast information. This paper goes some way to capturing some of the learning from translating scientific forecasts into useful information, in particular on both the content and the process of developing forecast bulletins for decision-making.

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Development of forecast information for institutional decision-makers: landslides in India and cyclones in Mozambique

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Abstract. There remains a gap between the production of scientifically robust forecasts, and the translation of these forecasts into useful information such as daily "bulletins" for decision-makers in early warning systems. There is significant published literature on best practice to communicate risk information, but very little to guide and provide advice on the process of how these bulletins have been, or should be, developed. This paper reviews two case studies where bulletins were developed for national and district-level government agencies and humanitarian responders: daily reports in response to Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique, and prototype landslide forecast bulletins in Nilgiris and Darjeeling Districts of India. Primary data was collected from producers and intermediaries of the bulletins via interview, and secondary data analysed on: iterative changes in the bulletin development; minutes from internal discussions; and feedback from users to extract learning on both the content and process of developing the bulletins. There were significant similarities in the type of content included in the bulletins, such as the layout, choice of words, and use of visualisation that was consistent with published best practices. Both case studies experienced challenges dealing with uncertainty, complexity, and whether to include advice. There were also similarities in the processes and approaches taken to develop the bulletins. Both case studies took an iterative approach, developed feedback mechanisms, benefitted from experienced multi-disciplinary teams, emphasised the need for strong inter-relationships, and the importance and value of preparedness and protocols. A major challenge was the difficulty of balancing science capabilities with user needs, which did not become significantly easier to deal with given more time availability. The findings indicate that whilst more research is needed into existing or best practice processes to develop content for forecast bulletins, there is an existing body of experiential and intuitive knowledge and learning that already exists but is not yet captured in an appropriate format that could be of significant interest and value to those developing forecast information. This paper goes some way to capturing some of the learning from translating scientific forecasts into useful information, in particular on both the content and the process of developing forecast bulletins for decision-making.

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Interdisciplinary pressure cooker: environmental risk communication skills for the next generation

Cited by 4 publications

References 31 publications

Editorial: Geoscience communication – planning to make it publishable

Editorial: Geoscience communication – planning to make it publishable

Development of forecast information for institutional decision-makers: landslides in India and cyclones in Mozambique

Development of forecast information for institutional decision-makers: landslides in India and cyclones in Mozambique

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