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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ray, Andrea J
• Webb, Robert S
• Parris, Adam S
• Garfin, Gregg M
• Meyer, Ryan
• Close, Sarah L
• Dow, Kirstin

Titel

Understanding the user context: decision calendars as frameworks for linking climate to policy, planning, and decision‐making

Ist Teil von

• Climate in Context, 2016, p.27-50

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Wiley Online Library All Obooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Climate scientists and decision‐makers need to be able to efficiently work together to understand each others' needs, capabilities, and limitations, in order to arrive at decisions to adapt to a changing environment. However, analytical frameworks for understanding the user context are not well documented. This chapter describes decision calendars as a practical framework to organize and understand information about the user context, in order to move past first‐order questions regarding if and how stakeholders use climate information to more sophisticated and contextual second‐order questions assessing what is needed for scientific information to be usable. We define actionable information as science‐based knowledge transformed to be readily understandable and immediately available to support decision‐making. The process of developing decision calendars also fosters ongoing engagement with users, supports use‐inspired research, and guides research priorities. We describe the process and methods for developing decision calendars and present the application of the framework in cases for reservoir management, wildfire management, and the North American monsoon. Decision calendars are shown to be effective frameworks to link natural resources management operations and planning with potential uses of forecasts and climate information at various lead‐times. The decision calendar framework continues to be used to integrate information needs and the application of climate science in new geographic regions and user contexts.