The Critical Role of Communities of Practice and Peer Learning in Scaling Hydroclimatic Information Adoption
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22332005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Page (University of Colorado Boulder), Lisa Dilling (0000-0001-5061-0809, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 851-862 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Weather, Climate, and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1948-8327 • E-ISSN: 1948-8335 |
| Publisher | American Meteorological Society (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1175/wcas-d-18-0130.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2966812778 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 39 |
Significant effort has been put into advancing the use and usability of information products to support adaptation to drought and climate variability, particularly for the water supply sector. Evidence and experience show that advancing the usability of information through processes such as coproduction is time consuming for both providers and users of information. One challenge for boundary organizations and researchers interested in enhancing the usability of their information is how such processes might “scale” to all the potential organizations and individual managers that might possibly be able to benefit from improved climate information. This paper examines information use preferences and practices specifically among managers of small water systems in the Upper Colorado River basin, with an eye toward identifying new opportunities to effectively scale information usability and uptake among all water managers—regardless of location or capacity—in a resource-constrained world. We find that boundary organizations and other usable science efforts would benefit from capitalizing on the communities of practice that bind water managers together. Specifically, strategic engagement with larger, well-respected water systems as early adopters, supporting dissemination of successes and experiences with new information products among a broader community of water managers, and increasing well-respected water systems’ capacity to engage directly with rural systems may all serve as useful strategies to promote widespread distribution, access, and adoption of information
Business · Coproduction · Environmental resource management · Geography · Information system · Knowledge management · Political science · Public relations · Usability · Computer Science · demographic modeling and climate adaptation · Environmental Science · Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies · Psychology · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Supporting communities of practice as a strategy to accelerate uptake of environmental science for climate action
Linking Boundary Organizations to Coproduce Actionable Knowledge
An Evaluation of the Utility of a Decision-Maker-Driven Climate Hazard Assessment Tool
Users’ awareness and expectations from the climate change adaptation digital twin
A How‐to Guide for Coproduction of Actionable Science
Weather Forecasts are for Wimps
Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow-dominated regions
Knowledge systems for sustainable development
Moving Climate Information off the Shelf
Moving toward the Deliberate Coproduction of Climate Science Knowledge
Early Adoption of Climate Information
Climate-Sensitive Decisions and Time Frames
Making Science Useful to Decision Makers
Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
Actionable Knowledge for Environmental Decision Making
Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems
To co-produce or not to co-produce
Reconciling the supply of scientific information with user demands
Creating usable science
The co-production of science and policy in integrated climate assessments
Increasing information usability for climate adaptation
Policy implications of climate forecasts for water resources management in the Pacific Northwest
Linking global and local scales
Conversion to Organic Farming
Shadow Spaces for Social Learning
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |