Challenges to the sustainability of climate services in Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12929720 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marta Bruno Soares (0000-0003-3127-4461, Sustainability Institute, corresponding author), Carlo Buontempo (0000-0002-1874-5380, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7780 • E-ISSN: 1757-7799 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/wcc.587 |
| OpenAlex | W2941815300 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 28 |
Climate services have emerged as a research and operational field in recent years. This development has been underpinned and supported by significant research, funding and agenda‐setting efforts such as the Global Framework for Climate Services internationally and the Roadmap for Climate Services and the Copernicus Climate Change Service in Europe. The fast pace at which this field is developing raises a number of key challenges that need to be critically examined and addressed to ensure the future development and sustainability of climate services in Europe. This opinion piece highlights a number of challenges currently threatening the viability of climate services including the complexity of the concept of climate services; the complex landscape of complementary research and development areas relevant to climate services; existing rights to freely access and use climate services; current limitations to funding structures and mechanisms and how that impacts on the development of climate services; the emphasis on co‐production as a precondition to climate services development; and the limited role of the social sciences in the research and operational field of climate services. Effectively addressing these challenges will require a commitment from the scientific and practitioner communities to engage in critical and reflective debates around the future conceptualization and operationalization of climate services in Europe. This paper aims to provide critical input to stimulate a necessary and overdue debate around the sustainability and future of climate services in Europe. This article is categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Knowledge and Practice
Business · Climate change · Conceptualization · Economics · Ecosystem services · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Operationalization · Pace · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Computer Science · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology
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The Risk-Tandem Framework
Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data
The Global Framework for Climate Services
Defining successful climate services for adaptation with experts
Customising global climate science for national adaptation
Engagement, involvement and empowerment
Mapping the Demand, Development, and Delivery of Climate Services in the Greater Horn of Africa
Co-producing European climate science and policy
Moving toward the Deliberate Coproduction of Climate Science Knowledge
Making Science Useful to Decision Makers
Surveying Climate Services
Actionable Knowledge for Environmental Decision Making
Internal variability in European summer temperatures at 1.5 °C and 2 °C of global warming
Co‐production in climate change research
Climate services for society
Climate service warnings
Reconciling the supply of scientific information with user demands
Defining and classifying ecosystem services for decision making
A Ladder Of Citizen Participation
Countering the Loading-Dock Approach to Linking Science and Decision Making
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |