What does decision support mean to the climate change research community?

Romsdahl, Rebecca J.; Pyke, Christopher R.

doi:10.1007/s10584-008-9538-2

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“…Global Change Research Program's new strategic plan calling for more use-inspired research, any substantive changes are yet to be seen, which would support more RISA-like research. Science policies have been slow to support the growing need for usable climate information, echoing earlier criticisms made about the program [11,[27][28][29]. Conducting basic research aimed at contributing to our fundamental knowledge about climate change will always play a critical role in climate science.…”

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Navigating scales of knowledge and decision‐making in the Intermountain West: implications for science policy

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Managing multiple scales of climate knowledge and decision-making has proven key to the provision of useful climate information for decision support. In this chapter we use specific examples from the work of the Western Water Assessment RISA to illustrate how boundary work, consisting of convening, translating, collaborating and mediating, can help a research organization overcome the challenges that arise from mismatches between scales of knowledge and scales of decision-making. We then use lessons learned from those examples to call for science policies that better promote and support usable and scale-sensitive research for decision support.

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Navigating scales of knowledge and decision‐making in the Intermountain West: implications for science policy

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“…Kloprogge and van der Sluijs (2006, p. 365) state that "stakeholder reasoning, observation and imagination are not bounded by scientific rationality" and argue that the "extended facts" that stakeholders contribute to an assessment enhance the quality of the assessment, lead to more effective means for dealing with uncertainty, and "legitimize" the assessment particularly in the eyes of other stakeholders. Furthermore, stakeholder involvement is thought to lead to greater utility of the assessment outcomes (Romsdahl and Pyke 2009), provide a sounder basis for decision making (Moser 2009), and ensure that important components or concerns are not overlooked (Kloprogge and van der Sluijs 2006). Oftentimes stakeholders can provide access to additional or alternative data sources and provide insights on data quality and local conditions (Kloprogge and van der Sluijs 2006;Moser 2009).…”

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“…In addition, insights from stakeholders are essential for identifying adaptation options and evaluating feasibility. Stakeholder input is also critical when evaluating the effectiveness of an assessment (Moser 2009;Romsdahl and Pyke 2009).…”

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“…Active stakeholder involvement is also complicated by language barriers and cultural differences, as is the delivery of the assessment outcomes to stakeholders for their use in decision making. Given the large number of stakeholders, industry advocacy groups who represent multiple interests (e.g., producers, processors, distributors) and technical experts who have developed trusted relationships with stakeholders (Romsdahl and Pyke 2009) and can accurately reflect stakeholder knowledge and perspectives are likely to play important roles in the assessment process for international market systems.…”

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A conceptual framework for multi-regional climate change assessments for international market systems with long-term investments

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Artavia

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Climatic Change

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A conceptual framework for climate change assessments of international market systems that involve long-term investments is proposed. The framework is a hybrid of dynamic and static modeling. Dynamic modeling is used for those system components for which temporally continuous modeling is possible, while fixed time slices are used for other system components where it can be assumed that underlying assumptions are held constant within the time slices but allowed to vary between slices. An important component of the framework is the assessment of the "metauncertainty" arising from the structural uncertainties of a linked sequence of climate, production, trade and decision-making models. The impetus for proposing the framework is the paucity of industry-wide assessments for market systems with multiple production regions and long-term capital investments that are vulnerable to climate variations and change, especially climate extremes. The proposed framework is pragmatic, eschewing the ideal for the tractable. Even so, numerous implementation challenges are expected, which are illustrated using an example industry. The conceptual framework is offered as a starting point for further discussions of strategies and approaches for climate change impact, vulnerability and adaptation assessments for international market systems.

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“…This lack of evaluation stems from the nature of the USGCRP as a collection of independent agencies and the complex mix of legal and bureaucratic responsibilities they each hold. But the lack of regular evaluation also limits the assessment of progress toward the USGCRP goals for providing decision support (Romsdahl and Pyke 2009). …”

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Decision support for climate change adaptation planning in the US: why it needs a coordinated internet-based practitioners’ network

Romsdahl

2010

Climatic Change

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Decision support resources are emerging across the United States to address the adaptation and mitigation challenges associated with climate variability and change. In theory, climate-related decision support identifies the need to move beyond the linear dissemination of information from experts to decision-makers. Interviews with researchers and federal program managers, however, show that in practice there are still wide gaps between the development of climate science and its application. Lessons learned in two example cases of decision support experiments are discussed to highlight some of the on-going challenges in applying climate science, e.g. defining decision support, involving decision-makers, and determining effectiveness. The published literature also shows these reoccurring challenges but emphasizes more collaboration between science and decision-makers as this improves the relevance, compatibility, and accessibility of climate science information and can increase users' receptiveness. This article proposes that the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) can help the development of decision support resources, in one way, by coordinating an Internet-based practitioners' network. A coordinated network could provide opportunities for climate-related decision support practitioners to build collaborative partnerships, share lessonslearned, provide feedback to the USGCRP, and thereby assist the transition of science into decision-making processes to better address adaptation planning.

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What does decision support mean to the climate change research community?

Cited by 14 publications

References 4 publications

Navigating scales of knowledge and decision‐making in the Intermountain West: implications for science policy

Navigating scales of knowledge and decision‐making in the Intermountain West: implications for science policy

A conceptual framework for multi-regional climate change assessments for international market systems with long-term investments

Decision support for climate change adaptation planning in the US: why it needs a coordinated internet-based practitioners’ network

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