Re-balancing climate services to inform climate-resilient planning - A conceptual framework and illustrations from sub-Saharan Africa
Re-balancing climate services to inform climate-resilient planning - A conceptual framework and illustrations from sub-Saharan Africa
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重新平衡气候服务，为适应气候变化的规划提供信息——撒哈拉以南非洲的概念框架和例证
DOI：
10.1016/j.crm.2020.100242
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Vincent K
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作者：
Vincent K
制定气候适应型规划和适应决策在一定程度上取决于气候信息的使用。人们越来越注意“可用性差距”和使信息对决策者既有用又可用的需要。但是，对于决定有用和可用的资料一旦产生之后是否实际使用的因素，注意较少。在这篇透视图文章中，我们概述了一个框架，它将弥合“可用性差距”所需的各个部分组合在一起——不仅强调了使信息有用和可用所需的条件，还强调了确保有用和可用的信息被实际使用所需的条件。创建有用的信息取决于理解并能够交付在一系列决策环境中满足确定需求的度量标准。创建可用的信息需要合法和可信的信息，这些信息是可视化的，并以易于访问和理解的方式进行交流。该框架强调了传统上未得到充分认识的促进因素，这些因素对于促进决策中有效利用日益增加的有用和可用的气候信息是必要的；支助性机构、适当的政策框架、个人和机构的决策能力。虽然这本身并不足以影响信息的使用，但我们认为，更多地关注这些促成因素可以重新平衡通过气候服务促进的活动，并增加成功使用的可能性。我们通过为撒哈拉以南非洲的茶叶和水部门共同制作气候信息的案例来说明该框架。
Making climate-resilient planning and adaptation decisions is, in part, contingent on the use of climate information. Growing attention has been paid to the “usability gap” and the need to make information both useful and useable to decision-makers. Less attention has, however, been paid to the factors that determine whether, once created, useful and useable information is then actually used. In this Perspectives piece, we outline a framework that puts together the pieces necessary to close the “usability gap” – highlighting not only what is required to make information useful and useable, but also what is required to ensure that useful and useable information is actually used. Creating useful information is subject to understanding and being able to deliver metrics that address identified needs in a range of decision-making contexts. Creating useable information requires legitimate and credible information that is visualised and communicated in ways that are accessible and understandable. The framework highlights traditionally under-recognized enablers necessary to promote effective use of the growing availability of useful and useable climate information in decision-making; supportive institutions, appropriate policy frameworks, capacity of individuals and agency to make decisions. Whilst this is not enough in itself to effect information use, we argue that greater focus on these enablers can re-balance the activities promoted through climate services and increase the likelihood of successful use. We illustrate the framework with case examples of co-producing climate information for the tea and water sectors in sub-Saharan Africa.