Abstract
Climate services’ main function has been to provide technical scientific evidence for decision-making in formal institutions. This article makes a case for recognising the diverse functions and meanings of climate services across the spectrum of institutions constituting climate governance. The article reports on research that identified climate services needs for building resilience in Bergen city (Norway) through a collaborative back-casting workshop with actors variously engaged in climate governance. Participants’ discussions raised four key observations on climate services. First, they saw the potential for using climate information in a diverse set of formal and informal institutions. Second, they considered how to adapt information to these diverse settings. Third, they looked at how information could enhance existing initiatives, rather than demanding ‘new’ products. And fourth, participants’ proposed climate services highlighted their diverse functions, and led the authors to suggest classifying services according to their principal functions. The article finishes by proposing a field of ‘social climate services’ that configures relationships between scientists and social actors, built on technologies of humility, for enriching the ongoing culturally and politically charged debates and practices around climatic change in informal institutional settings. Social climate services function can include enabling people to voice their concerns, learn, critically reflect on changes to culture and identity, build social networks, and try out new practices.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 100305 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-15 |
Journal | Climate Services |
Volume | 27 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research received funding from the ERA4CS CoCliServ project (Norwegian Research Council Grant Agreement 274246), and Scott Bremer had support from the CALENDARS project, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement 804150). The authors want to thank the workshop participants for their commitment, reflections, and insights. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. This project was principally funded by the ERA4CS CoCliServ project (Norwegian Research Council Grant Agreement 274246). The funding body had no influence over the study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the article for publication.
Funding Information:
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. This project was principally funded by the ERA4CS CoCliServ project (Norwegian Research Council Grant Agreement 274246). The funding body had no influence over the study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the article for publication.
Funding Information:
This research received funding from the ERA4CS CoCliServ project (Norwegian Research Council Grant Agreement 274246), and Scott Bremer had support from the CALENDARS project, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement 804150). The authors want to thank the workshop participants for their commitment, reflections, and insights.
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Funding
This research received funding from the ERA4CS CoCliServ project (Norwegian Research Council Grant Agreement 274246), and Scott Bremer had support from the CALENDARS project, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement 804150). The authors want to thank the workshop participants for their commitment, reflections, and insights. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. This project was principally funded by the ERA4CS CoCliServ project (Norwegian Research Council Grant Agreement 274246). The funding body had no influence over the study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the article for publication. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. This project was principally funded by the ERA4CS CoCliServ project (Norwegian Research Council Grant Agreement 274246). The funding body had no influence over the study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the article for publication. This research received funding from the ERA4CS CoCliServ project (Norwegian Research Council Grant Agreement 274246), and Scott Bremer had support from the CALENDARS project, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement 804150). The authors want to thank the workshop participants for their commitment, reflections, and insights.
Keywords
- Co-production
- Institutions
- Knowledge systems
- Resilience
- Scenarios
- Social climate services