What can climate services learn from theory and practice of co-production?

Vincent, Katharine; Daly, Meaghan; Scannell, Claire; Leathes, Bill

doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2018.11.001

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“…There appears to be potential to open dialogue that would improve flood information services through the involvement of the private sector. These suggestions accord with recent calls for co-production as a route to improving the relevance of climate services [30].…”

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Information for Adaptation and Response to Flooding, Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives in Nigeria

Lamond

Adekola

Adelekan

et al. 2019

Climate

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Provision of data and information for disaster risk reduction is increasingly important to enable resilience. However, the focus of provision in many African countries is limited to national scale risk assessment and meteorological data. The research aimed to consider the perspectives on availability and access to information of different local urban actors that require reliable and specific information to make informed decisions. The research used workshop discussions and questionnaires to collect views from stakeholders in flood risk management in Nigerian cities about their current access to information and requirements. The results confirmed that stakeholders and communities agree in recognising the importance of climate information. Findings identified issues surrounding communication between agencies, government and technical experts. The role of the media and business in filling the vacuum left by state provision of information was further highlighted, demonstrating the potential for Private Public Partnerships in supporting adaptation and response to flooding. However, significant differences in access between sub-groups were also revealed such that some marginalised groups may be excluded from information. It follows that climate services, data and information provision need to be collaboratively designed in order to be more inclusive, meet user requirements and build community capacity.

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Information for Adaptation and Response to Flooding, Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives in Nigeria

Lamond

Adekola

Adelekan

et al. 2019

Climate

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“…Fortunately, the international research community is mobilized in ongoing observational and modeling efforts (Dinku et al, 2017;FCFA, 2017;GFDRR, 2015;James et al, 2018;Washington et al, 2012) that have the potential to close our knowledge gaps and further reduce uncertainties in projections. In the meantime, new approaches for the co-production of climate knowledge by scientists and users are coming into focus (Bhave, Conway, & Dessai, 2018;Haasnoot, van t Klooster, & van Alphen, 2018;Kalra et al, 2014;Shepherd et al, 2018;Vincent, Daly, Scannell, & Leathes, 2018) and promise a way forward in planning for adaptation under deep uncertainty.…”

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Rainfall trends in the African Sahel: Characteristics, processes, and causes

Biasutti

2019

WIREs Climate Change

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Sahel rainfall is dynamically linked to the global Hadley cell and to the regional monsoon circulation. It is therefore susceptible to forcings from remote oceans and regional land alike. Warming of the oceans enhances the stability of the tropical atmosphere and weakens deep ascent in the Hadley circulation. Warming of the Sahara and of the nearby oceans changes the structure and position of the regional shallow circulation and allows more of the intense convective systems that determine seasonal rain accumulation. These processes can explain the observed interannual to multidecadal variability. Sea surface temperature anomalies were the dominant forcing of the drought of the 1970s and 1980s. In most recent decades, seasonal rainfall amounts have partially recovered, but rainy season characteristics have changed: rainfall is more intense and intermittent and wetting is concentrated in the late rainy season and away from the west coast. Similar subseasonal and subregional differences in rainfall trends characterize the simulated response to increased greenhouse gases, suggesting an anthropogenic influence. While uncertainty in future projections remains, confidence in them is encouraged by the recognition that seasonal mean rainfall depends on large‐scale drivers of atmospheric circulations that are well resolved by current climate models. Nevertheless, observational and modeling efforts are needed to provide more refined projections of rainfall changes, expanding beyond total accumulation to metrics of intraseasonal characteristics and risk of extreme events, and coordination between climate scientists and stakeholders is needed to generate relevant information that is useful even under deep uncertainty. This article is categorized under: Paleoclimates and Current Trends > Modern Climate Change

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“…Early climate service design principles at these different scales were developed by the GFCS through a series of exemplars and consultative strategic documents (Hewitt et al 2012) informed by earlier work (e.g., NRC 2001, among others). More recent research has reinforced many of the earlier conclusions on building capacity, particularly within NMHSs to transform them into national climate service centers (such as Mahon et al 2019), the benefits of coproducing user-oriented climate information (Vincent et al 2018), opportunities and challenges associated with commercializing climate services (Webber and Donner 2017), and the role of different actors and different approaches in the design of climate services (Christel et al 2018).…”

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Making Society Climate Resilient: International Progress under the Global Framework for Climate Services

Hewitt

Allis

Mason³

et al. 2020

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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There is growing awareness among governments, businesses, and the general public of risks arising from changes to our climate on time scales from months through to decades. Some climatic changes could be unprecedented in their harmful socioeconomic impacts, while others with adequate forewarning and planning could offer benefits. There is therefore a pressing need for decision-makers, including policy-makers, to have access to and to use high-quality, accessible, relevant, and credible climate information about the past, present, and future to help make better-informed decisions and policies. We refer to the provision and use of such information as climate services. Established programs of research and operational activities are improving observations and climate monitoring, our understanding of climate processes, climate variability and change, and predictions and projections of the future climate. Delivering climate information (including data and knowledge) in a way that is usable and useful for decision-makers has had less attention, and society has yet to optimally benefit from the available information. While weather services routinely help weather-sensitive decision-making, similar services for decisions on longer time scales are less well established. Many organizations are now actively developing climate services, and a growing number of decision-makers are keen to benefit from such services. This article describes progress made over the past decade developing, delivering, and using climate services, in particular from the worldwide effort galvanizing around the Global Framework for Climate Services under the coordination of UN agencies. The article highlights challenges in making further progress and proposes potential new directions to address such challenges.

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What can climate services learn from theory and practice of co-production?

Cited by 198 publications

References 79 publications

Information for Adaptation and Response to Flooding, Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives in Nigeria

Information for Adaptation and Response to Flooding, Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives in Nigeria

Rainfall trends in the African Sahel: Characteristics, processes, and causes

Making Society Climate Resilient: International Progress under the Global Framework for Climate Services

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