Research and Networks for Decision Support in the Noaa Sectoral Applications Research Program

This study recommends a definition of "decision support" that emphasizes communication rather than translation and a strategy by which the small NOAA Sectoral Applications Research program can advance decision support. The book emphasizes that seasonal climate forecasts provide fundamentally new kinds of information and that integrating this information into real-world decisions will require social innovations that are not easily accomplished. It recommends that the program invest in (a) research to identify and foster the innovations needed to make information about climate variability and change more usable in specific sectors, including research on the processes that influence success or failure in the creation of knowledge-action networks for making climate information; (b) workshops to identify, catalyze, and assess the potential of knowledge-action networks in particular resource areas or decision domains; and (c) pilot projects to create or enhance these networks for supporting decisions in climate-affected sectors. It recommends that evaluation of the program be addressed with a monitoring approach.

Summary

Presents a definition of decision support that emphasizes communication rather than translation and a strategy by which the small NOAA Sectoral Applications Research program can advance decision support. This book emphasizes that seasonal climate forecasts provide fundamentally fresh kind of information.

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• Authors: Board on Environmental Change and Society, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Glo, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Division Of Behavioral And Social Scienc, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, Panel on Design Issues for the NOAA Sector Applications Research Program, Panel on Design Issues for the Noaa Sectoral Applications Research Program
• Assisted by: Helen M Ingram (Editor), Helen M. Ingram (Editor), Paul C Stern (Editor), Paul C. Stern (Editor)
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.2007
• EAN: 9780309112024
• ISBN: 978-0-309-11202-4
• No. of pages: 98
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > General, dictionaries