User guides for the climate adaptation of buildings and infrastructure in Norway – Characteristics and impact

Hauge, Åshild Lappegård; Almås, Anders-Johan; Flyen, Cecilie; Stoknes, Per Espen; Lohne, Jardar

doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2017.06.009

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“…Being able to meet the municipalities in this role has been very helpful, because the gap between what researchers present, and what the municipalities actually need, is huge. (Network 1) This coincides with the findings of Corfee-Morlot et al (2011), Mahoney and Thelen (2010) and Hauge et al (2017), all reporting the need to present scientific knowledge in more comprehensible formats as a basis for work linked to climate change adaptation.…”

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Multilevel networks for climate change adaptation – what works?

Hauge

Hanssen²,

Flyen

2019

IJCCSM

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.*Related content and download information correct at time of download. Design/methodology/approach -The findings are based on 12 qualitative interviews taken from two case studies, and the results are explained in relation to the multilevel network framework and environmental psychology.Findings -Multilevel networks can promote learning and identification of specific actions in connection with climate change adaptation. The aim should be to establish interdisciplinarity, with participants from at least two authority levels. Representatives should be in positions that enable them to introduce acquired knowledge to the organization and influence its application. A network requires organizational commitment, during the initial phase and throughout the follow-up process. Municipal leaders (mayors) must be aware of the network, act as signatories to relevant documents, and be familiar with participating representatives. Commitment to knowledge application within the organization also requires that participants understand where and how to work strategically to convert new ideas into action.Practical implications -This paper presents practical and research-based guidelines for the management of climate change adaptation networks at municipal, county and national authority levels.Originality/value -This paper combines political science and environmental psychology perspectives as a means of analysing network achievements. A psychological approach may help to promote a greater understanding of why and how network knowledge is transferred.

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Section: Participantssupporting

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Multilevel networks for climate change adaptation – what works?

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2019

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“…Climate-relevant information must be tailored to reach the right person in the right form at the right time. Neither does a unilateral supply-side push result inevitably in more useful information, nor does the availability of climate-relevant products guarantee their use (McNie 2013;Hauge et al 2017;Swart et al 2017;Wilk et al 2017). Reoccurring factors that have limited the success of provided climate information are (i) insufficient awareness by societal actors of their vulnerability to climate change; (ii) the lack of relevant products and services offered by the scientific community; (iii) the inappropriate format; and (iv) the inadequate business model, which is insufficiently adapted to the culture of users (Brasseur and Gallardo 2016;Bruno Soares and Dessai 2016;Bruno Soares et al 2018).…”

Section: B Classifying Climate Servicesmentioning

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“…Examination of the factors that contribute to climate scientists' struggle to respond to users' requirements emphasized various barriers (Lemos et al 2012;McNie 2013;Meadow et al 2015) and, consequently, resulted in different suggestions for narrowing the gap between information providers and prospective users. Current proposals range from analyzing the potential market for climate services (Brasseur and Gallardo 2016) to determining new institutional priorities (Porter and Dessai 2017), and from altering the form and content of guidance material (Hauge et al 2017) to improving climate education (Brown and Bachelet 2017). While many of the aspects identified by research clearly restrict the use of climate information, the suggestions provided by research will have only limited impact on decision-making as long as they tackle only specific symptoms, but not the root causes that are responsible for the restricted effectiveness and usability of many CCAP.…”

Section: B Classifying Climate Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…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).…”

Section: B Scrutinizing the Use Of Climate Informationmentioning

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“…The scope, content, and design of climate services have been analyzed (Lourenço et al 2016;Swart et al 2017;Christel et al 2018) as have specific products, such as seasonal climate forecasts (Bruno Soares and Dessai 2016), scenario platforms (Sigel et al 2016), or web-based climate applications (Brown and Bachelet 2017). There are also numerous studies of specific countries (Goosen et al 2014;Görransson and Rummukainen 2014;Máñez et al 2014;Haque et al 2017;Kundzewicz et al 2017;Vincent et al 2017), actors (André et al 2017;Wilk et al 2017), and sectors (U.S. Government Accountability Office 2015; Hauge et al 2017;Buontempo and Hewitt 2018) in contrast to the limited number of analyses covering institutional and governance aspects (Biagini et al 2014;Hakelberg 2014;Oberlack 2017).…”

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User guides for the climate adaptation of buildings and infrastructure in Norway – Characteristics and impact

Cited by 21 publications

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Multilevel networks for climate change adaptation – what works?

Multilevel networks for climate change adaptation – what works?

Evolving Climate Services into Knowledge–Action Systems

Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't: The impact of economic rationalist imperatives on the adaptive capacity of public infrastructure in Brisbane, Australia and Cork, Ireland

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