Stake­hold­ers in cli­mate sci­ence: beyond lip service?

As part of an ongo­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion, the team of

Nicole L. Klenk, Katie Mee­han, San­dra Lee Pinel, Fabi­an Mendez, Pablo Tor­res Lima, and Daniel M. Kam­men 

have pro­duced a paper that appeared in Sci­ence on Novem­ber 13, 2015.  You can down­load the:

Sum­ma­ry here for free (open access, by spe­cial permission),

Reprint here for free (open access, by spe­cial permission),

and the

Full text here for free (open access, by spe­cial permission).

For this we thank the AAAS and Sci­ence Magazine.

A key part of this project is to col­lect infor­ma­tion and to build a com­mu­ni­ty of prac­ti­tion­er groups that at share their expe­ri­ences and needs in access­ing, using , and find­ing sup­port in inte­grat­ing cli­mate infor­ma­tion in their operations.

We ask you to read the paper and review the table below of exam­ple groups, and to con­sid­er both shar­ing this with groups who you know who have lessons to share, and for those who can upload their infor­ma­tion and to down­load the infor­ma­tion on what these groups are doing.

We will update the table of groups reg­u­lar­ly as more orga­ni­za­tions share their data.  You can view and down­load that data below.

We also invite you feed­back on oth­er infor­ma­tion you would like to have col­lect­ed and shared in the process.

You can also down­load the spread­sheet here.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Nicole L. Klenk, Katie Mee­han, San­dra Lee Pinel, Fabi­an Mendez, Pablo Tor­res Lima, and Daniel M. Kammen

Nicole Klenk’s research exam­ines the role of (envi­ron­men­tal) sci­ence in soci­ety, the sci­ence-pol­i­cy inter­face, the pol­i­tics of knowl­edge co-pro­duc­tion, mobi­liza­tion and appli­ca­tion, and new modes of envi­ron­men­tal gov­er­nance. Her research is most­ly sit­u­at­ed in the inter­pre­tive social sci­ences and her the­o­ret­i­cal ori­en­ta­tion is inter­dis­ci­pli­nary, draw­ing from sci­ence stud­ies, post-struc­tural­ist polit­i­cal the­o­ry, and prag­ma­tism.  Her areas of focus are forestry, bio­di­ver­si­ty con­ser­va­tion and cli­mate change adaptation.

Email: nicole.​klenk@​utoronto.​ca

Fabi­an Mendez, physi­cian and PhD in Epi­demi­ol­o­gy, is full time pro­fes­sor and head of the School of Pub­lic Health at the Uni­ver­si­dad del Valle in Cali, Colom­bia. His research inter­ests focus in the com­plex rela­tion­ships between envi­ron­ment and health with inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approach­es. He has devel­oped research in dif­fer­ent top­ics from vec­tor borne dis­eases to health effects of envi­ron­men­tal pol­lu­tants, and right now devel­ops a project to eval­u­ate health vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty to cli­mate change with a water­shed approach in an area of Colombia.

Email: fmendez@​grupogesp.​org

Katie Mee­han is assis­tant pro­fes­sor of Geog­ra­phy and co-direc­tor of the Sci­ence, Envi­ron­ment, and Soci­ety Lab at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ore­gon. Her research and teach­ing inter­ests focus on water gov­er­nance, urban­iza­tion, the sci­ence-pol­i­cy inter­face, and cli­mate change adap­ta­tion. Recent work, sup­port­ed by a Ful­bright NEXUS grant, exam­ines the spa­tial gov­er­nance chal­lenges asso­ci­at­ed with insti­tu­tion­al­iz­ing local knowl­edge and non-net­worked water sup­ply tech­nolo­gies in Mex­i­co City

Email: meehan@​uoregon.​edu

San­dra Lee Pinel is a cer­ti­fied com­mu­ni­ty and region­al plan­ner (AICP) and SFAA mem­ber since 1988. PhD in Urban and Region­al Plan­ning with minors in Anthro­pol­o­gy and Latin Amer­i­can Stud­ies. Research on co-man­age­ment and col­lab­o­ra­tive plan­ning with local and indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties and gov­ern­ment agen­cies. Assis­tant pro­fes­sor of sus­tain­able com­mu­ni­ty and region­al plan­ning at the Depart­ment of Con­ser­va­tion Social Sci­ences, U Ida­ho. Area focus includes Pueblo tribes in the South­west, Philip­pines, Peru, and north­ern Unit­ed States pro­tect­ed areas and com­mu­ni­ty interface.

Email: sleepinel@​gmail.​com

Pablo Tor­res Lima Agron­o­mist spe­cial­ist in the areas of sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, social anthro­pol­o­gy, region­al devel­op­ment, envi­ron­men­tal design, agroe­col­o­gy, farm­ing sys­tems and social organization.

Email: ptorres@​correo.​xoc.​uam.​mx

This project is sup­port­ed by the Ful­bright NEXUS Region­al Fel­lows Pro­gram, for which Daniel Kam­men is a Co-Lead Schol­ar, and all of the oth­er authors are 2014 — 2016 Fellows.