What stakeholder needs tell us about enabling adaptive capacity: The intersection of context and information provision across regions in the United States

Weather, Climate, and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 5-17

  Dilling, Lisa ^a   Lackstrom, Kirsten ^b   Haywood, Benjamin ^b   Dow, Kirstin ^b   Lemos, Maria Carmen ^c   Berggren, John ^a   Kalafatis, Scott ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FRAGMENTATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; STAKEHOLDER; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER RESOURCE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921745912     PISSN: 19488327     EISSN: 19488335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WCAS-D-14-00001.1     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Adger, W. N., and Coauthors, 2007: Assessment of adaptation practices, options, constraints and capacity. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, M. L. Parry et al., Eds., Cambridge University Press, 717-743.
2. Archie, K. M., L. Dilling, J. B. Milford, and F. C. Pampel, 2014: Unpacking the "information barrier": Comparing perspectives on information as a barrier to climate change adaptation in the interior mountain West. J. Environ. Manage., 133, 397-410, doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.12.015.
3. Barsugli, J. J., and Coauthors, 2013: The practitioner's dilemma: How to assess the credibility of downscaled climate projections. Eos, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 94, 424-425, doi:10.1002/2013EO460005.
4. Berkhout, F., 2012: Adaptation to climate change by organizations. Wiley Interdiscip. Rev.: Climate Change, 3, 91-106, doi:10.1002/wcc.154.
5. Bidwell, D., T. Dietz, and D. Scavia, 2013: Fostering knowledge networks for climate adaptation. Nat. Climate Change, 3, 610-611, doi:10.1038/nclimate1931.
6. Bierbaum, R., and Coauthors, 2013: A comprehensive review of climate adaptation in the United States: More than before, but less than needed. Mitigation Adapt. Strategies Global Change, 18, 361-406, doi:10.1007/s11027-012-9423-1.
7. Bureau of Reclamation, cited 2012: Colorado River basin water supply and demand study: Executive summary. Bureau of Reclamation, 28 pp. [Available online at www.usbr.gov/lc/region/programs/crbstudy/finalreport/Executive%20Summary/CRBS-Executive-Summary-FINAL.pdf.]
8. Cash, D. W., 2001: "In order to aid in diffusing useful and practical information": Agricultural extension and boundary organizations. Sci. Technol. Human Values, 26, 431-453, doi:10.1177/016224390102600403.
9. Cash, D. W., and S.C. Moser, 2000: Linking global and local scales:Designing dynamic assessment and management processes. Global Environ. Change, 10, 109-120, doi:10.1016/S0959-3780(00)00017-0.
10. Cash, D. W., W. Clark, F. Alcock, N. M. Dickson, N. Eckley, D. H. Guston, J. Jager, and R. B. Mitchell, 2003: Knowledge systems for sustainable development. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 100, 8086-8091, doi:10.1073/pnas.1231332100.
11. Cash, D. W., J. Borck, and A. Patt, 2006: Countering the loading-dock approach to linking science and decision making. Sci. Technol. Human Values, 31, 465-495, doi:10.1177/0162243906287547.
12. Dilling, L., and J. Berggren, 2014: What do stakeholders need to manage for climate change and variability? A document-based analysis from three mountain states in the western USA. Reg. Environ. Change, doi:10.1007/s10113-014-0668-y, in press.
13. Dilling, L., and M. C. Lemos, 2011: Creating usable science: Opportunities and constraints for climate knowledge use and their implications for science policy. Global Environ. Change, 21, 680-689, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.11.006.
14. Dilling, L., and E. Failey, 2013: Managing carbon in a multiple use world: The implications of land-use decision context for carbon management. Global Environ. Change, 23, 291-300, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.10.012.
15. Dow,K., B. K. Haywood, N. P. Kettle, and K. Lackstrom, 2013: The role of ad hoc networks in supporting climate change adaptation: A case study from the southeastern United States. Reg. Environ. Change, 13, 1235-1244, doi:10.1007/s10113-013-0440-8.
16. Eakin, H., S. Eriksen, P.-O. Eikeland, and C. Oyen, 2011: Public sector reform and governance for adaptation: Implications of new public management for adaptive capacity in Mexico and Norway. Environ. Manage., 47, 338-351, doi:10.1007/s00267-010-9605-0.
17. Farley, K. A., C. Tague, and G. E. Grant, 2011: Vulnerability of water supply from the Oregon Cascades to changing climate: Linking science to users and policy. Global Environ. Change, 21, 110-122, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.09.011.
18. Feldman, D. L., and H. M. Ingram, 2009: Making science useful to decision makers: Climate forecasts, water management, and knowledge networks. Wea. Climate Soc., 1, 9-21, doi:10.1175/2009WCAS1007.1.
19. Fowler, H. J., S. Blenkinsop, and C. Tebaldi, 2007: Linking climate change modelling to impacts studies: Recent advances in down-scaling techniques for hydrological modelling. Int. J. Climatol., 27, 1547-1578, doi:10.1002/joc.1556.
20. Frank, K., I.-C. Chen, Y. Lee, S. Kalafatis, T. Chen, Y.-J. Lo, and M. C. Lemos, 2012: Network location and policy-oriented behavior: An analysis of two-mode networks of coauthored documents concerning climate change in the Great Lakes region. Policy Stud. J., 40, 492-515, doi:10.1111/j.1541-0072.2012.00462.x.
21. Glaas, E., A. Jonsson, M. Hjerpe, and Y. Andersson-Sköld, 2010: Managing climate change vulnerabilities: Formal institutions and knowledge use as determinants of adaptive capacity at the local level in Sweden. Local Environ., 15, 525-539, doi:10.1080/13549839.2010.487525.
22. Gregory, R., L. Failing, M. Harstone, G. Long, T. McDaniels, and D. Ohlson, 2012: Structured Decision Making: A Practical Guide to Environmental Management Choices. Wiley, 312 pp.
23. Haywood, B. K., A. Brennan, K. Dow, N. P. Kettle, and K. Lackstrom, 2014: Negotiating a mainstreaming spectrum: Climate change response and communication in the Carolinas. J. Environ. Policy Plann., 16, 75-94, doi:10.1080/1523908X.2013.817948.
24. Hegger, D., M. Lamers, A. Van Zeijl-Rozema, and C. Dieperink, 2012: Conceptualising joint knowledge production in regional climate change adaptation projects: Success conditions and levers for action. Environ. Sci. Policy, 18, 52-65, doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2012.01.002.
25. Jacobs, K., G. Garfin, and M. Lenart, 2005: More than just talk: Connecting science and decisionmaking. Environment, 47, 6-21, doi:10.3200/ENVT.47.9.6-21.
26. Jacobs, K., and Coauthors, 2010: Linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable water-resources management. Linking Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development: 8th Annual Sackler Colloquia, Washington, DC, National Academy of Sciences, 6 pp., doi:10.1073/pnas.0813125107.
27. Kasperson, R. E., 2006: Rerouting the stakeholder express. Global Environ. Change, 16, 320-322, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.08.002.
28. Kiparsky, M., A. Milman, and S. Vicuña, 2012: Climate and water: Knowledge of impacts to action on adaptation. Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour., 37, 163-194, doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-050311-093931.
29. Kirchhoff, C. J., M. C. Lemos, and S. Dessai, 2013: Actionable knowledge for environmental decision making: Broadening the usability of climate science. Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour., 38, 393-414, doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-022112-112828.
30. Klein, R. J. T., G. F. Midgley, B. Preston, M. Alam, F. G. H. Berkhout, K. Dow, and M. R. Shaw, 2014: Adaptation opportunities, constraints, and limits. Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. C. B. Field et al., Eds., Cambridge University Press. [Available online at http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/.]
31. Kok, M., and H. de Coninck, 2007: Widening the scope of policies to address climate change. Environ. Sci. Policy, 10, 587-599, doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2007.07.003.
32. Lach, D., P. List, B. Steel, and B. Shindler, 2003: Advocacy and credibility of ecological scientists in resource decisionmaking: Aregional study. Bioscience, 53, 170-178, doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0170:AACOES]2.0.CO;2.
33. Lackstrom,K., N. P. Kettle,B.Haywood, andK.Dow, 2014:Climatesensitive decisions and time frames: A cross-sectoral analysis of information pathways in the Carolinas. Wea. Climate Soc., 6, 238-252, doi:10.1175/WCAS-D-13-00030.1.
34. Lemos, M. C., C. J. Kirchhoff, and V. Ramprasad, 2012: Narrowing the climate information usability gap. Nat. Climate Change, 2, 789-794, doi:10.1038/nclimate1614.
35. Lemos, M. C., C. J. Kirchhoff, S. E. Kalafatis, D. Scavia, and R. B. Rood, 2014: Moving climate information off the shelf: Boundary chains and the role of RISAs as adaptive organizations. Wea. Climate Soc., 6, 273-285, doi:10.1175/WCAS-D-13-00044.1.
36. Lowrey, J. L., A. J. Ray, and R. S. Webb, 2009: Factors influencing the use of climate information by Colorado municipal water managers. Climate Res., 40, 103-119, doi:10.3354/cr00827.
37. McNie, E., 2007: Reconciling the supply of scientific information with user demands: An analysis of the problem and review of the literature. Environ. Sci. Policy, 10, 17-38, doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2006.10.004.
38. Moser, S. C., and J. A. Ekstrom, 2010: A framework to diagnose barriers to climate change adaptation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107, 22 026-22 031, doi:10.1073/pnas.1007887107.
39. Moss, R. H., and Coauthors, 2013: Hell and high water: Practice-relevant adaptation science. Science, 342, 696-698, doi:10.1126/science.1239569.
40. Naess, L. O., G. Bang, S. Eriksen, and J. Vevatne, 2005: Institutional adaptation to climate change: Flood responses at the municipal level in Norway. Global Environ. Change, 15, 125-138, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2004.10.003.
41. National Research Council, 2009: Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate. Panel on Strategies and Methods for Climate-Related Decision Support. National Academies Press, 200 pp.
42. Pahl-Wostl, C., 2009: A conceptual framework for analysing adaptive capacity and multi-level learning processes in resource governance regimes. Global Environ. Change, 19, 354-365, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.06.001.
43. Pielke, R. A., Jr., 2007: The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics. Cambridge University Press, 188 pp.
44. Pulwarty, R. S., C. Simpson, and C. R. Nierenberg, 2009: The Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) Program: Crafting effective assessments for the long haul. Integrated Regional Assessment of Global Climate Change, C. G. Knight and J. Jäger, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 1-28.
45. Ray, A., G. Garfin, M. Wilder, M. Vasquez-Leon, M. Lenart, and A. C. Comrie, 2007: Applications of monsoon research: Opportunities to inform decision making and reduce regional vulnerability. J. Climate, 20, 1608-1627, doi:10.1175/JCLI4098.1.
46. Rayner, S., D. Lach, and H. Ingram, 2005: Weather forecasts are for wimps: Why water resource managers do not use climate forecasts. Climatic Change, 69, 197-227, doi:10.1007/s10584-005-3148-z.
47. Roncoli, C., N. Breuer, D. Zierden, C. Fraisse, K. Broad, and G. Hoogenboom, 2012: The art of the science: Climate forecasts for wildfire management in the southeastern United States. Climatic Change, 113, 1113-1121, doi:10.1007/s10584-012-0526-1.
48. Sarewitz, D., and R. Pielke Jr., 2007: The neglected heart of science policy: Reconciling supply of and demand for science. Environ. Sci. Policy, 10, 5-16, doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2006.10.001.
49. Smit, B., and J. Wandel, 2006: Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability. Global Environ. Change, 16, 282-292, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.03.008.
50. Steinemann, A., 2014: Drought information for improving preparedness in the western states. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 95, 843-847, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00067.1.
51. Tribbia, J., and S. C. Moser, 2008: More than information: What coastal managers need to plan for climate change. Environ. Sci. Policy, 11, 315-328, doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2008.01.003.
52. USGS, cited 2013: USGS threatened and endangered stations. [Available online at http://streamstatsags.cr.usgs.gov/ThreatenedGages/ThreatenedGages.html.]
53. van Kerkhoff, L., and L. Lebel, 2006: Linking knowledge and action for sustainable development. Annu. Rev. Energy Environ., 31, 445-477, doi:10.1146/annurev.energy.31.102405.170850.
54. Vogel, C., S. C. Moser, R. E. Kasperson, and G. Dabelko, 2007: Linking vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience science to practice: Pathways, players, and partnerships. Global Environ. Change, 17, 349-364, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2007.05.002.
55. Weichselgartner, J., and R. Kasperson, 2010: Barriers in the science-policy-practice interface: Toward a knowledge-action-system in global environmental change research. Global Environ. Change, 20, 266-277, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.11.006.
56. Yin, R. K., 2003: Case Study Research: Design and Methods. 3rd ed. Sage Publications, 200 pp.
57. Yohe, G., and R. Tol, 2002: Indicators for social and economic coping capacity - Moving toward a working definition of adaptive capacity. Global Environ Change, 12, 25-40, doi:10.1016/S0959-3780(01)00026-7.