Scaling up actionable climate knowledge
Abstract
To address climate-driven crises, we need actionable climate knowledge to inform decision-making and support problem solving. Although the science of actionable knowledge is rapidly evolving, less is known about how and why actionable climate knowledge scales up and with what outcomes. We advance three outcome-driven pathways to scale up actionable climate knowledge: 1) broadening participation by increasing the diversity and number of actors involved in actionable climate knowledge coproduction; 2) diffusing actionable climate knowledge uptake among actors not originally involved in its coproduction, and 3) aggregating impact by coproducing actionable climate knowledge with influential actors, such as practitioners and policy-makers, whose decisions affect many others. These pathways can intersect, complement, interact, and tradeoff with each other. Understanding how these pathways work, evolve, and change is critical if we want to better inform the production and scaling of climate actionable knowledge to solve climate problems.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
Authors (13)
Maria Carmen Lemos
School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
Lisa Maillard
Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Great Lakes Climate Adaptation Partnerships/Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Team, University of Michigan
Natalie Herbert
Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University
Simone J. Domingue
ByWater Institute, Tulane University
Kripa Jagannathan
Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Gabrielle Wong-Parodi
Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University
Erica Akemi Goto
Arizona Institute for Resilience, University of Arizona
Devin Gill
Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Great Lakes Climate Adaptation Partnerships/Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Team, University of Michigan
Derek Van Berkel
Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Great Lakes Climate Adaptation Partnerships/Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Team, University of Michigan
Scott Kalafatis
Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, University of Washington
Jenna L. Jorns
School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
Alex Basaraba
Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University
Teal Harrison
Adaptation International