Improving Environmental Communication and Adaptation Decision-making in the Humanitarian Sector

ENVS 5909-902/CSTP 5909
University of Colorado
Spring Semester 2017

Course Themes and Readings
Week 6

Communication and Application of Climate Science - Early April Date TBD

Readings

Goddard, L. et al. (2010). Providing Seasonal to Interannual Climate Information for Risk Management and Decision-making. Procedia Environmental Sciences 1(2010):  81-101.

Pfaff et al. (1999). Who Benefits from Climate Forecasts? Nature 397:645-6.

Patt, A. et al. (2007). Learning from 10 Years of Climate Outlook Forums in Africa. Science. 318:

Cash et al. (2006). Countering the Loading Dock Approach to Linking Science and Decision Making: Comparative Analysis of El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Forecasting Systems. Science, Technology, and Human Values. 31(4): 465-494.

Patt and Gwata (2002). Effective seasonal climate forecast applications: examining constraints for subsistence farmers in Zimbabwe. Global Environmental Change 12(2002):  185-195.

Lemos, M.C., Kirchoff, C, and Ramprasad, V. (2012). Narrowing the climate information usability gap. Nature Climate Change. 2(11): 789-794.

Lemos, M. and Lisa Dilling (2007). Equity in Climate Forecasting: Can Science Save the World’s Poor? Science and Public Policy 34(2):  109-116.

Vogel, C. and K. O’Brien (2006). Who Can Eat Information? Examining the effectiveness of seasonal climate forecasts and regional climate-risk management strategies. Climate Research 33:111-122.

Carr, E., Abrahams, D., Tozier de la Poterie, A., Suarez, P., & Koelle, B. (2015). Vulnerability assessments, identity and spatial scale challenges in disaster-risk reduction. Jàmbá: Journal  of Disaster Risk Studies, 7(1), 1–17. Jàmbá: Journal  of Disaster Risk Studies

Optional:

Desai et al. (2009). Climate Prediction: A Limit to Adaptation? In Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance, eds. W. Neil Adger, Irene Lorenzoni and Karen L. O’Brien. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. P 64–78.

Tarhule, A. and P. Lamb (2003). Climate Research and Seasonal Forecasting for West Africans: Perceptions, Dissemination, and Use? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (December) pp. 1741-1759.

Hegger, D., Lamers, M., Van Zeijl-Rozema, A., & Dieperink, C. (2012). Conceptualising joint knowledge production in regional climate change adaptation projects: success conditions and levers for action. Environmental Science and Policy, 18, 52–65. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2012.01.002