The need for non-climate services – Empirical evidence from Finnish municipalities

Räsänen, Aleksi; Jurgilevich, Alexandra; Haanpää, Simo; Heikkinen, Milja; Groundstroem, Fanny; Juhola, Sirkku

doi:10.1016/j.crm.2017.03.004

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“…In terms of prescriptions, there has been an increasing rise in governance modes that aim to facilitate adaptation through the provision of information and incentives. These decision‐making tools and aids often take the form of participatory workshops, online platforms and scenario tools (Rickards, Wiseman, Edwards, & Biggs, ), also signified by the provision of climate and nonclimate services (Hewitt et al 2012, Räsänen et al, , Visbeck, ). Moreover, some of these tools may become legally binding in planning processes.…”

Section: Attributing Responsibility In Adaptation To Climate Changementioning

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Responsibility for climate change adaptation

Juhola

2019

WIREs Climate Change

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As a policy process, climate change adaptation is rapidly advancing. Yet fundamental questions remain unanswered including, who is responsible for planned adaptation and when, who is liable for losses and damages resulting from climate change and how is responsibility distributed in a multilevel governance system? Responsibility can be evaluated in terms of the timing of particular events, the specific societal actors involved and the rules and norms used to attribute responsibility for dealing with those events. Four types of responsibility—care, liability, accountability, and responsiveness for adaptation—are identified, based on empirical studies and examples from the literature. This review demonstrates the need to further explore the normative implications of responsibility and how they should be considered in adaptation governance and policy. This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Values‐Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation

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Section: Attributing Responsibility In Adaptation To Climate Changementioning

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Responsibility for climate change adaptation

Juhola

2019

WIREs Climate Change

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“…As a result, products are selected on the basis of availability, convenience of format, and familiarity with the provider (Barsugli et al 2013;Goosen et al 2014), rather than on appraisal for decision-making. Besides the user's dilemma of identifying an adequate and credible product, there is evidence for an unsatisfied demand for ''nonclimate services'' explaining the use of information (Räsänen et al 2017). A recent study on CCA user guides for buildings and infrastructure stresses typical features of the current situation: the overwhelming amount of user guides create uncertainty among users; none of them describe decision processes in depth; and a large proportion does not specify target groups and/ or communicates background information rather than practical measures (Hauge et al 2017).…”

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“…So far, research has focused on producers (Kjellström et al 2016;Harjanne 2017;Räsänen et al 2017) and users of climate services (Cavelier et al 2017;Golding et al 2017a,b;Porter and Dessai 2017;Bruno Soares et al 2018). An undifferentiated discourse about ''the producer'' and ''the user'' is problematic: while a large amount of research acknowledges that different users have different needs, too often the research does not distinguish between different categories of users (Swart et al 2017).…”

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Evolving Climate Services into Knowledge–Action Systems

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Arheimer

2019

Weather, Climate, and Society

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The current landscape of climate services represents a highly diverse and still growing range of programs, projects, and portals involved in developing and/or providing climate services at different administrative levels and spatial-temporal scales. The diversity of service producers, users, and policy arenas has created a highly heterogeneous data-and information-oriented service landscape, and the authors contend that the domain of climate services requires efforts toward agreed structures and forms of conceptualization, operationalization, and evaluation. It is proposed here that qualitative classification be applied into climate change adaptation products, services, and systems to better guide research, policy, and practice with a clear terminology and analysis framework. This differentiation allows the pinpointing of critical challenges associated with the production and application of climate-relevant information, as well as the identification of suitable metrics to assess the impact of climate services. The article concludes with recommendations to advance climate services into knowledge-action systems and increase their sustainability.

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“…Two parallel online surveys were conducted to study how weather and climate risks were perceived and managed, one for Finnish organizations in general and the other specifically for municipalities. The municipality survey (detailed in Reference [7]) was sent to 122 municipalities that have been active in climate change planning and received 33 responses. The questionnaire for public and private organizations was sent to 500 recipients, of which 118 responded (detailed in Reference [34]).…”

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“…Hence, prioritization is needed to shortlist those risks calling for urgent action [6]. To support action, context specific knowledge from different sources is needed [7].…”

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Identifying Policy Actions Supporting Weather-Related Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in Finland

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Climate change adaptation (CCA) policies require scientific input to focus on relevant risks and opportunities, to promote effective and efficient measures and ensure implementation. This calls for policy relevant research to formulate salient policy recommendations. This article examines how CCA research may contribute to policy recommendations in the light of idealized set of knowledge production attributes for policy development in Finland. Using general background information on the evolution of CCA research and a case study, we specifically examine how the set of attributes have been manifested in research serving CCA and discuss how they have affected the resulting policy recommendations. We conclude that research serving CCA can be improved by more explicit reflection on the attributes that pay attention to the context of application, the methods of teamwork and a variety of participating organizations, transdisciplinarity of the research, reflexivity based on the values and labour ethos of scientists and novel forms of extended peer review. Such attributes can provide a necessary, although not sufficient, condition for knowledge production that strives to bridge the gap between research and policy.

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The need for non-climate services – Empirical evidence from Finnish municipalities

Cited by 25 publications

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Responsibility for climate change adaptation

Responsibility for climate change adaptation

Evolving Climate Services into Knowledge–Action Systems

Identifying Policy Actions Supporting Weather-Related Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in Finland

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