Framing Climate Services: Logics, Actors, and Implications for Policies and Projects
This paper explores how climate services are framed in the literature and possible implications for climate services’ policies and projects. By critically exploring the frames around climate services, the wider objective is to encourage more reflexive and responsible research in the field, particula...
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| description | This paper explores how climate services are framed in the literature and possible implications for climate services’ policies and projects. By critically exploring the frames around climate services, the wider objective is to encourage more reflexive and responsible research in the field, particularly given the huge challenge that climate change represents. By using a framing analysis based on an extensive literature review, five dominant frames were identified. Climate services are mainly framed (1) as a technological innovation, (2) as a market, (3) as an interface between users and producers, (4) as a risk management tool, and (5) from an ethical angle. The predominant frames influence how we think about climate services, shared assumptions, and the way in which policies and projects are designed. To prevent negative effects of climate services on the ground, such as inequalities, the main recommendations include establishing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dialogues between different communities of practice and players, increasing empirical and social science research to improve our understanding of this new field, and finally, re-thinking climate services in terms of adaptation rather than as the mere production of new information products. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-79a2ac1066124585a9d507856bc34e0d2023-11-20T15:41:06ZengMDPI AGAtmosphere2073-44332020-09-011110104710.3390/atmos11101047Framing Climate Services: Logics, Actors, and Implications for Policies and ProjectsMarine Lugen0Centre d’Etudes du Développement Durable, Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB C130/03 Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Brussels, BelgiumThis paper explores how climate services are framed in the literature and possible implications for climate services’ policies and projects. By critically exploring the frames around climate services, the wider objective is to encourage more reflexive and responsible research in the field, particularly given the huge challenge that climate change represents. By using a framing analysis based on an extensive literature review, five dominant frames were identified. Climate services are mainly framed (1) as a technological innovation, (2) as a market, (3) as an interface between users and producers, (4) as a risk management tool, and (5) from an ethical angle. The predominant frames influence how we think about climate services, shared assumptions, and the way in which policies and projects are designed. To prevent negative effects of climate services on the ground, such as inequalities, the main recommendations include establishing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dialogues between different communities of practice and players, increasing empirical and social science research to improve our understanding of this new field, and finally, re-thinking climate services in terms of adaptation rather than as the mere production of new information products.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/11/10/1047climate servicesclimate information servicesclimate change adaptationframing analysisdiscourse analysisclimate policy |
| spellingShingle | Marine Lugen Framing Climate Services: Logics, Actors, and Implications for Policies and Projects Atmosphere climate services climate information services climate change adaptation framing analysis discourse analysis climate policy |
| title | Framing Climate Services: Logics, Actors, and Implications for Policies and Projects |
| title_full | Framing Climate Services: Logics, Actors, and Implications for Policies and Projects |
| title_fullStr | Framing Climate Services: Logics, Actors, and Implications for Policies and Projects |
| title_full_unstemmed | Framing Climate Services: Logics, Actors, and Implications for Policies and Projects |
| title_short | Framing Climate Services: Logics, Actors, and Implications for Policies and Projects |
| title_sort | framing climate services logics actors and implications for policies and projects |
| topic | climate services climate information services climate change adaptation framing analysis discourse analysis climate policy |
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