Four Methodological Guidelines to Evaluate the Research Impact of Co-produced Climate Services
As climate change impacts unfold across the globe, growing attention is paid toward producing climate services that support adaptation decision-making. Academia, funding agencies, and decision-makers generally agree that stakeholder engagement in co-producing knowledge is key to ensure effective dec...
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| author | Mathilda Englund Karin André Åsa Gerger Swartling Jenny Iao-Jörgensen |
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| description | As climate change impacts unfold across the globe, growing attention is paid toward producing climate services that support adaptation decision-making. Academia, funding agencies, and decision-makers generally agree that stakeholder engagement in co-producing knowledge is key to ensure effective decision support. However, co-production processes remain challenging to evaluate, given their many intangible effects, long time horizons, and inherent complexity. Moreover, how such evaluation should look like is understudied. In this paper, we therefore propose four methodological guidelines designed to evaluate co-produced climate services: (i) engaging in adaptive learning by applying developmental evaluation practices, (ii) building and refining a theory of change, (iii) involving stakeholders using participatory evaluation methods, and (iv) combining different data collection methods that incorporate visual products. These methodological guidelines offset previously identified evaluation challenges and shortcomings, and can be used to help stakeholders rethink research impact evaluation through their complementary properties to identify complex change pathways, external factors, intangible effects, and unexpected outcomes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-53bf73707b5940aa8057cd1b011c199a2022-12-22T02:30:38ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Climate2624-95532022-07-01410.3389/fclim.2022.909422909422Four Methodological Guidelines to Evaluate the Research Impact of Co-produced Climate ServicesMathilda Englund0Karin André1Åsa Gerger Swartling2Jenny Iao-Jörgensen3Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, SwedenStockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, SwedenStockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, SwedenDivision of Risk Management and Societal Safety, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Lund, SwedenAs climate change impacts unfold across the globe, growing attention is paid toward producing climate services that support adaptation decision-making. Academia, funding agencies, and decision-makers generally agree that stakeholder engagement in co-producing knowledge is key to ensure effective decision support. However, co-production processes remain challenging to evaluate, given their many intangible effects, long time horizons, and inherent complexity. Moreover, how such evaluation should look like is understudied. In this paper, we therefore propose four methodological guidelines designed to evaluate co-produced climate services: (i) engaging in adaptive learning by applying developmental evaluation practices, (ii) building and refining a theory of change, (iii) involving stakeholders using participatory evaluation methods, and (iv) combining different data collection methods that incorporate visual products. These methodological guidelines offset previously identified evaluation challenges and shortcomings, and can be used to help stakeholders rethink research impact evaluation through their complementary properties to identify complex change pathways, external factors, intangible effects, and unexpected outcomes.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2022.909422/fullclimate adaptationclimate servicesdecision supportknowledge co-productiontransdisciplinary researchparticipatory research |
| spellingShingle | Mathilda Englund Karin André Åsa Gerger Swartling Jenny Iao-Jörgensen Four Methodological Guidelines to Evaluate the Research Impact of Co-produced Climate Services Frontiers in Climate climate adaptation climate services decision support knowledge co-production transdisciplinary research participatory research |
| title | Four Methodological Guidelines to Evaluate the Research Impact of Co-produced Climate Services |
| title_full | Four Methodological Guidelines to Evaluate the Research Impact of Co-produced Climate Services |
| title_fullStr | Four Methodological Guidelines to Evaluate the Research Impact of Co-produced Climate Services |
| title_full_unstemmed | Four Methodological Guidelines to Evaluate the Research Impact of Co-produced Climate Services |
| title_short | Four Methodological Guidelines to Evaluate the Research Impact of Co-produced Climate Services |
| title_sort | four methodological guidelines to evaluate the research impact of co produced climate services |
| topic | climate adaptation climate services decision support knowledge co-production transdisciplinary research participatory research |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2022.909422/full |
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