气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Increasing information usability for climate adaptation: The role of knowledge networks and communities of practice

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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.02.007
	Increasing information usability for climate adaptation: The role of knowledge networks and communities of practice
	Kalafatis S.E.; Lemos M.C.; Lo Y.-J.; Frank K.A.
发表日期	2015
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	32
英文摘要	This paper examines the dissemination of climate knowledge among Great Lakes decision-makers, especially focusing on cross-scale processes to tailor knowledge to better fit decision contexts. It employs both network analysis of those involved with documents and events intended to integrate climate change information into policy production or practice and qualitative research to understand how climate information flows among stakeholders in the water quality sector, a policy area of great importance in the Great Lakes region. It finds that the network consists of centralized regional-scale work surrounded by more dispersed specialized and local work that has developed over time. Our interviews reveal that overlaps between these scales produce more usable knowledge as potential users form their own specialized networks which operate as communities of practice that further tailor information to match particular application needs. We propose a model of this process that describes how the development of usable information works in a continuum, with each step furthering usability at the regional level. This model outlines the potential for knowledge networks and communities of practice to not only drive the use of information in particular decision contexts, but also provide a critical means to inform regional work and scale up the production of usable information about climate change. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Adaptation; Climate change; Communities of practice; Knowledge networks; Usable information
学科领域	adaptive management; climate change; community care; decision making; knowledge; network analysis; stakeholder; Great Lakes [North America]
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptive management; climate change; community care; decision making; knowledge; network analysis; stakeholder; Great Lakes [North America]
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117518
作者单位	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States; Michigan State University, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kalafatis S.E.,Lemos M.C.,Lo Y.-J.,et al. Increasing information usability for climate adaptation: The role of knowledge networks and communities of practice[J],2015,32.
APA	Kalafatis S.E.,Lemos M.C.,Lo Y.-J.,&Frank K.A..(2015).Increasing information usability for climate adaptation: The role of knowledge networks and communities of practice.Global Environmental Change,32.
MLA	Kalafatis S.E.,et al."Increasing information usability for climate adaptation: The role of knowledge networks and communities of practice".Global Environmental Change 32(2015).