Enhancing interdisciplinary climate change work through comprehensive evaluation

Decision support platforms for climate change adaptation: an overview and introduction

“…A number of authors have laid out criteria against which the effectiveness of climate information delivery can be measured. These include saliency, credibility, and legitimacy (Cash et al 2003); usefulness, usability, and credibility (Klink et al 2017); and timely, accurate, credible, salient, and alignment with users' decision-scales (Lemos and Morehouse 2005). Essentially, these all revolve around the same considerations: that information should be tailored to the needs of the user in terms of content, style and presentation and should somehow be legitimised so that the user is confident in using it.…”

“…Mattern et al 2018). Tracking site usage through Google Analytics is a straightforward and cost-effective approach commonly used to understand basic usage (Klink et al 2017;Gardiner et al 2019;Palutikof et al 2019a), but it provides little or no indication of users' background, motivation for visiting the site, satisfaction levels, and use made of the accessed information and guidance. However, there are a few published examples of in-depth, structured, longer-term evaluations of the contribution of adaptation platforms.…”

“…Newman et al (2017) evaluated 77 decision support systems for natural hazard risk reduction in 101 papers and found that 28 were reportedly used beyond the case study described in the analysed paper. Klink et al (2017) surveyed existing and potential users of their decision support tools for adaptation in agriculture. They found that 85-96% of respondents considered such tools to be relevant to their career and, of these, around half had used a decision support tool with climate information in the past and 94% expressed willingness to use one in the future.…”

Functions Of Flagship University In Regional Development

“…The practice is critical for interdisciplinary study of climate conditions during conducting complex socio-economic research (Klink et al, 2017). The similar situation appears while governments deal with environmental protection issues in the whole world (Bark et al, 2016).…”

Social Paradigm Of Russian Flagship Universities

“…Other non-Russian publications relating to the psychological, environmental, educational, and medical orientation allow us to observe elements of the paradigmatic style of research. This refers either to the ability of the creative team to maintain long-term internal comfort related to the psychological climate (Klink, et al, 2017), or to the use of the modeling of interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and multilevel integration in medical and environmental studies (Binot et al, 2015). Separately, it is possible to single out publications that reflect the unity of the production of scientific knowledge and interactive learning.…”