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4 Principles for Selecting Activities and Modes of Support
4 Principles for Selecting Activities and Modes of Support
Pages 48-57
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PRINCIPLES FOR SELECTINg ACTIVITIES Links to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Mission and SARP Objectives The principal criterion for setting priorities for activities to be supported is the congruency between the proposed activity and the objectives of SARP, namely, to foster the appropriate use of climate information in key socioeconomic sectors, defined by resources or decision arenas.
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Promotion of Social Innovation in using Climate Science We emphasize throughout this report that getting decision-relevant climate information used requires innovation within and sometimes among potential user groups and the creation of new communication networks and organizational functions. The evidence from social science shows that simply creating and providing useful information does not usually create use.
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. It should give priority to activities that can better inform decisions with long-term implications through appropriate use of climate science, such as infrastructure-related decisions that can reduce the vulnerability of specific coastal areas to disasters related to expected climate variability and change.
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SARP should support work to understand whether and how climate science information begins to be used in such organizational decision processes. SARP should also support workshop activities with types of decision makers who rarely use climate-related information but for whom there is a clear potential for making better decisions by doing so.
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Proposed research projects should be evaluated in terms of how well they are conceptualized both in relation to mission goals for improved use of climate information and in relation to basic underlying social and behavioral science questions. Keeping the interest of basic researchers in social and behavioral science is a good way to attract promising ideas and high-quality researchers from outside the climate science community and thus maintain the vitality SARP.
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Thus, SARP should support pilot projects that have developed partnerships with organizations that represent certain types of potential users of climate science and that can promise either shared support or the likelihood that shared support will be forthcoming after initial support from SARP. Other Activities and Modes of Support Centers of excellence can provide a predictable research budget for concerted efforts over time on topics that are likely to be critical to moving scientific understanding forward over several years.
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5 DECISION SUPPORT IN THE NOAA SARP BOX 4-1 Modes of Research Support Workshop Grants Advantages • Can bring together researchers and decision makers for collaborative de velopment of a research agenda. • Improve mutual understanding between researchers and decision makers.
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Visiting Social Science Position in NOAA (sabbatical or fellowship visits from academic institutions, as done, for example, in the Water Resources Institute of the Army Corps of Engineers and by Resources for the Future) Advantages • Innovation in agency.
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5 DECISION SUPPORT IN THE NOAA SARP BOX 4-1 Continued Limitations • Some visitors have difficulty working productively in new settings. • Time and energy needed to integrate a visiting scholar.
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5 PRINICIPLES FOR SELECTING ACTIVITIES AND MODES OF SUPPORT Limitations • Require that needed researchers are in agencies that can make agreements. • Agency reluctance to part with effective people.
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