#Budget2022 highlights #freshwater protection as critically important, and proposes to provide $43.5 million over five years, starting in 2022-23, to create a new #CanadaWaterAgency, which will be stood-up in 2022. This is big news for water in Canada!
This is a very timely and important piece - natural sciences are overly privileged in numerous science-policy areas not limited to climate change adaptation. Policy-makers are systematically missing out on non-technical science advice.
Adapting is not enough – climate-adaptive decisions as technical choices erase values, norms, ethics and fundamental goals.
Our @PNASNews paper shows the inherent risk in privileging natural science at the science–policy interface
w Rob Kozak & @SES_UBChttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108326119…
A generation ago, Samuel Hays argued that "Beauty, Health, and Permanence" were the enduring movers of "Environmental Politics in the United States" https://cup.org/340cti2. This research echoes Hays, cautions against too much reliance on trend to $ value of ecosystem services:
Framing interventions as protecting ecosystem integrity rather than commercial value can get > public support, argue @FindlaterKM etal @SES_UBC in "Difficult climate-adaptive decisions in forests as complex social–ecological systems," reinforcing. (1/2) https://pnas.org/content/119/4/e2108326119…
Interesting looking paper on forest management perceptions and Assisted Migration.
“These results are further evidence of the inherent risk in privileging natural science above other forms of knowledge at the science–policy interface.”
New paper alert! #UBCForestry’s @FindlaterKM, @SES_UBC & Rob Kozak explore the “Difficult climate-adaptive decisions in forests as complex social-ecological systems” in their latest article @PNASNews. Read more: https://bit.ly/3nFvttc
“A narrow understanding of maladaptation is harmful because it may overlook the more fundamental reasons that we adapt to climate change,” states #UBCForestry’s Rob Kozak,
Climate change adaptation 'gone wrong' is about much more than climate.
Happy to announce our new paper in People and Nature: “Redefining climate change maladaptation using a values-based approach in forests”
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"Informed, rigorous, transparent, and climate-sensitive decision-making is fundamental, not only for economic growth, health and well being but for sociopolitical stability and equity" #climateservices
Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data
Our new @NatureClimate paper finds that norms and institutions of science limit climate ‘services’ as a transformation of climate science
w Sophie Webber @mKandlikar@simondonnerhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01125-3…
broaden the idea of maladaptation in social-ecological systems like forests to account for the non-climate values adaptation seeks to protect and enhance.
Every once in a while something big happens... our co-produced research results are being used to improve the understanding of temp and precip outlooks for millions of people 🎉
Interested in the decision support research behind this work?
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wcas/12/1/wcas-d-18-0094.1.xml…
Today at CPC we are launching a new look and feel to some of our temperature and precipitation maps to better communicate upcoming climate outlooks across the U.S. Read more at: https://weather.gov/news/211409-temperature-precipitation-maps…
Let's do another experiment! 🙃
Using your free will alone, reply to this poll randomly.
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I’m excited to be joining the Impact and Innovation Unit of the Privy Council Office! As a senior policy advisor I will help advance evidence-based and results-driven climate policies (both mitigation and adaptation) across the Canadian federal government
https://canada.ca/en/innovation-hub.html…
💬Expert interviews suggest that the norms, structures and institutions of climate science limit climate services to nominal changes where transformations are promised.
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paper about the promise & practice of climate services: “Fulfilling that promise will require rethinking the norms, institutions and governance of science itself.”
Writeup https://rdcu.be/cvVti
Paper https://rdcu.be/cvVtA
I think you’re right so long as we don’t improve our understanding of when/where co-production works and why. Arguments for co-production have become oversimplified to imply a panacea and we (myself included) need to sharpen our claims somewhat.
The title says it all: "Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data"
Read the paper and turn on the tv.
Daughter spent the night on Amtrak so this one hit home fairly quickly in real time.
Great piece on unfulfilled promises of climate services by @daly_meaghanhttps://rdcu.be/cwVHE and read here the full study by Findlater et al: https://rdcu.be/cwX4h
"We show that, although climate services promise better decision-making, they mainly focus on delivering better data ... climate services often generate nominal changes in climate science where transformations are promised."
https://rdcu.be/cw5C5
I'm not an expert on climate services but share the view that 'co-production' might end as just another failed promise in #climate policy
New NCC article by
People are giving advice to incoming grad students. Here's some tips that you're probably not going to hear from other people that will make your life easier in the long run.
editorial and our paper's cited as a recent example, but qualitative research shouldn't have to compete directly with quantitative research (on scope, sample size, etc) at the desk rejection phase, precisely for reasons given in the editorial
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It's a bit of a hoot that Nature Climate Change of all pubs is arguing for respect for qualitative methods (see their 1.981.094.701 published articles that are obsessed with quantifying contextual and descriptive data), but glad to see it
https://nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01153-z…
via @NickZimson
Over-reliance on quantitative research may enhance inequality in knowledge production, yet equity is one of the central issues in climate governance, we need a balanced climate research agenda. Yes.
Yesterday @NatureClimate published an article by @FindlaterKM@simondonner@UBC with a very explicative title: "Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data": https://go.nature.com/3kFlIIV
( 1/12)
"Only with such process-oriented, demand-driven- and rigorously evaluated approaches will climate services be made useful, useable and used." Great article
"A transformational climate service requires that providers understand why and how decisions are made, by whom, in what diverse sociological contexts and with what non-climate constraints." 1/2
colleague Birgit Boogaard - she critically examined her OWN past research/work in rural Mozambique and shows how it perpetuated forms of epistemic injustice. Super brave & inspiring woman and work! 👏👏👏https://km4djournal.org/index.php/km4dj/article/view/475…
Adaptation is an expensive, hard slog, and won't be enough to combat climate change. Years of govt investment in New Orleans worked to protect the city from more severe flooding, but the electrical system and areas outside the city remained vulnerable.
Always happy to see arguments for more diverse skill sets in climate/weather. The argument from others in the comments that communication and other social science skills can just be picked up "on the fly" only emphasizes the need for a paradigm shift
College meteorology programs are going to seriously need to recalibrate required course curriculum for those on forecasting tracks. Classes on communication, dealing with trauma (self & others), and some form of social science maybe need to be required now?