Final Report: Evaluating Current Projects to Inform Future Development of Actionable Science in the Southwest
Dates
Publication Date
2019-07-12
Citation
2019-07-12, Final Report: Evaluating Current Projects to Inform Future Development of Actionable Science in the Southwest: .
Summary
As climate change continues to impact communities and ecosystems, increasingly researchers have been working collaboratively with land and natural resource management practitioners to produce climate information products intended for their use. This has contributed to a push from science-driven to stakeholder-driven or collaborative approaches to climate science research wherein stakeholder use of climate information products is considered among key indicators of project success (Cash et al. 2006; Dilling and Lemos 2011; Lemos et al. 2012). Yet examples of stakeholder use of these products are seldom reported in the literature. This has left open important questions about whether and how stakeholders use the products from the projects [...]
Summary
As climate change continues to impact communities and ecosystems, increasingly researchers have been
working collaboratively with land and natural resource management practitioners to produce climate
information products intended for their use. This has contributed to a push from science-driven to
stakeholder-driven or collaborative approaches to climate science research wherein stakeholder use of
climate information products is considered among key indicators of project success (Cash et al. 2006;
Dilling and Lemos 2011; Lemos et al. 2012). Yet examples of stakeholder use of these products are
seldom reported in the literature. This has left open important questions about whether and how
stakeholders use the products from the projects in which they are engaged, contributing to concern
over whether collaborative climate science is fulfilling its core rationale (see Bozeman and Sarewitz
2011; McNie et al. 2016; Meyer 2011; Swart et al. 2017). The purpose of this project was to begin to
address those questions by identifying how land and natural resource management practitioners use the
climate information products generated through collaborative climate science projects.
