Communities of practice: One size does not fit all

Vincent, Katharine; Steynor, Anna; Waagsaether, Katinka Lund; Cull, Tracy

doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2018.05.004

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“…Proper implementation of these measures calls for intermediary experts with the skills needed to help stakeholders articulate their demands, and to negotiate a compromise between these demands and what the available science is able to provide. This team should comprise multiple disciplines from both social and physical sciences, stakeholder groups and climate information providers, as well as a range of cultural, geographical, and institutional views as appropriate (Vincent, Steynor, Waagsaether, & Cull, 2018). Capacity building for these actors is a vital element of the solution space (Kandlikar, Zerriffi, & Ho Lem, 2011), as is the involvement of developing country practitioners with knowledge of the local context, to ensure solutions are salient and sustainable.…”

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On the use and misuse of climate change projections in international development

Nissan¹,

Goddard²,

Pérez

et al. 2019

WIREs Climate Change

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Climate resilience is increasingly prioritized by international development agencies and national governments. However, current approaches to informing communities of future climate risk are problematic. The predominant focus on end-of-century projections neglects more pressing development concerns, which relate to the management of shorter-term risks and climate variability, and constitutes a substantial opportunity cost for the limited financial and human resources available to tackle development challenges. When a long-term view genuinely is relevant to decisionmaking, much of the information available is not fit for purpose. Climate model projections are able to capture many aspects of the climate system and so can be relied upon to guide mitigation plans and broad adaptation strategies, but the use of these models to guide local, practical adaptation actions is unwarranted. Climate models are unable to represent future conditions at the degree of spatial, temporal, and probabilistic precision with which projections are often provided, which gives a false impression of confidence to users of climate change information. In this article, we outline these issues, review their history, and provide a set of practical steps for both the development and climate scientist communities to consider. Solutions to mobilize the best available science include a focus on decision-relevant timescales, an increased role for model evaluation and expert judgment and the integration of climate variability into climate change services. This article is categorized under: Climate and Development > Knowledge and Action in Development K E Y W O R D S climate change adaptation, climate change projections, climate resilience, climate services, international development

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On the use and misuse of climate change projections in international development

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Goddard²,

Pérez

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WIREs Climate Change

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“…Harrison et al (2013) combine climate change scenarios with socio-economic scenarios in a digital platform to allow stakeholders to explore adaptation options within the context of varying futures. European research projects such as ECONADAPT and BASE have also focused on the economics of climate adaptation to support adaptation planning (Watkiss et al, 2015;Garotte et al, 2016;Meyer et al, 2015).…”

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“…CoPs provide a social context in which researchers and stakeholders can engage in formal and informal interactions and co-analyse and co-produce the contextual knowledge that is necessary for climate change adaptation (Iyalomhe et al, 2013). The CoPs in the BINGO project were locally created and externally supported by the scientific project partners, which is found to be a necessary condition for a sustainable CoP (Vincent et al 2018) Based on the risks that were identified and analysed in the risk analysis, the CoPs selected and analysed adaptation measures, with the goal of informing decision makers about the expected efforts and gains from the implementation of these measures. The approach applied in the BINGO project is in line with steps formulated in the Adaptation Support Tool developed as part of the Climate-ADAPT initiative of the European Union (https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/ knowledge/tools/adaptation-support-tool, last access: 8 July 2021).…”

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Selecting and analysing climate change adaptation measures at six research sites across Europe

Alphen

Strehl

Vollmer

et al. 2021

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. As Europe is faced with increasing droughts and extreme precipitation, countries are taking measures to adapt to these changes. It is challenging, however, to navigate through the wide range of possible measures, taking into account the efficacy, economic impact and social justice aspects of these measures, as well as the governance requirements for implementing them. This article presents the approach of selecting and analysing adaptation measures to increasing extreme weather events caused by ongoing climate change that was developed and applied in the H2020 project BINGO (Bringing Innovation to Ongoing Water Management). The purpose of this project is (a) to develop an integrated participatory approach for selecting and evaluating adaptation measures, (b) to apply and evaluate the approach across six case-study river basins across Europe, and (c) to support decision-making towards adaptation capturing the diversity, the different circumstances and challenges river basins face across Europe. It combines three analyses: governance, socio-economic and social justice The governance analysis focuses on the requirements associated with the measures and the extent to which these requirements are met at the research sites. The socio-economic impact focuses on the efficacy of the measures in reducing the risks and the broad range of tools available to compare the measures on their societal impact. Finally, a tentative social justice analysis focuses on the distributive impacts of the adaptation measures. In the summary of results, we give an overview of the outcome of the different analyses. In the conclusion, we briefly assess the main pros and cons of the different analyses that were conducted. The main conclusion is that although the research sites were very different in both the challenges and the institutional context, the approach presented here yielded decision-relevant outcomes.

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“…18 While CoPs are often portrayed in the literature as harmonious and based on trust and shared values, our experience in nurturing a CoP on local food governance in the Western Cape supports recent arguments that not all CoPs are the same. 19 In contrast to the traditional conception of CoPs as intradisciplinary, CoPs can also transcend different disciplines and organisations. These transdisciplinary CoPs bring together actors from across the knowledge-policy-practice interface and are much more likely to include individuals with very different viewpoints, and 'ways of knowing'.…”

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“…While issues of power, conflict and disagreement have been underplayed in the literature, our experience indicates that these need careful reflection to be better understood, managed and harnessed. The co-production of knowledge requires multiple perspectives and, in the sense that social learning is 'negotiated meaning' in a 'push pull' process, 19 it would not be feasible to expect these power relationships and tensions to be absent. Indeed, it could be argued that they are the essence of co-production.…”

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Creating knowledge democracy in South Africa: The role of communities of practice

Adelle¹

2019

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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to fully engage in potentially resource-intensive and unpredictable knowledge partnerships. Crucially, however, if we are to move beyond creating fragmented and unused (or 'orphan') solutions to complex problems in our society, universities must act to widen the scope of recognised knowledge and move towards nurturing knowledge democracy. This requires universities to openly and actively engage with stakeholders and citizenry as a whole in the co-production of knowledge. We must also reflect on our own individual roles as scientists in creating knowledge. Establishing CoPs around existing research themes and teams is one practical way many of us at (South) African universities can begin to construct a new architecture of knowledge, one knowledge partnership at a time.

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Communities of practice: One size does not fit all

Cited by 21 publications

References 26 publications

On the use and misuse of climate change projections in international development

On the use and misuse of climate change projections in international development

Selecting and analysing climate change adaptation measures at six research sites across Europe

Creating knowledge democracy in South Africa: The role of communities of practice

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