Climate in Context – Science and Society Partnering For Adaptation

<p>List of contributors vii</p>
<p>Foreword xiii</p>
<p>Preface xix</p>
<p>Acknowledgments xxiii</p>
<p>Background on RISA xxv</p>
<p>Section I: Understanding context and risk</p>
<p>1 Assessing needs and decision contexts: RISA approaches to engagement research 3<br /> Caitlin F. Simpson, Lisa Dilling, Kirstin Dow, Kirsten J. Lackstrom, Maria Carmen Lemos and Rachel E. Riley</p>
<p>2 Understanding the user context: decision calendars as frameworks for linking climate to policy, planning, and decision–making 27<br /> Andrea J. Ray and Robert S. Webb</p>
<p>3 Climate science for decision–making in the New York metropolitan region 51<br /> Radley Horton, Cynthia Rosenzweig, William Solecki, Daniel Bader and Linda Sohl</p>
<p>Section II: Managing knowledge–to–action networks</p>
<p>4 Connecting climate information with practical uses: Extension and the NOAA RISA program 75<br /> John Stevenson, Michael Crimmins, Jessica Whitehead, Julie Brugger and Clyde Fraisse</p>
<p>5 Participatory, dynamic models: a tool for dialogue 99<br /> Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Stuart Blythe, Ralph Levine, Lorraine Cameron and Michael Beaulac</p>
<p>6 Not another webinar! Regional webinars as a platform for climate knowledge–to–action networking in Alaska 117<br /> Sarah F. Trainor, Nathan P. Kettle and J. Brook Gamble</p>
<p>Section III: Innovating services</p>
<p>7 The making of national seasonal wildfire outlooks 143<br /> Gregg Garfin, Timothy J. Brown, Tom Wordell and Ed Delgado</p>
<p>8 Challenges, pitfalls, and lessons learned in developing a drought decision–support tool 173<br /> Greg Carbone, Jinyoung Rhee, Kirstin Dow, Jay Fowler, Gregg Garfin, Holly Hartmann, Ellen Lay and Art DeGaetano</p>
<p>9 Managing the 2011 drought: a climate services partnership 191<br /> Mark Shafer, David Brown and Chad McNutt</p>
<p>Section IV: Advancing science policy</p>
<p>10 Evaluation to advance science policy: lessons from Pacific RISA and CLIMAS 215<br /> Daniel B. Ferguson, Melissa L. Finucane, Victoria W. Keener and Gigi Owen</p>
<p>11 Navigating scales of knowledge and decision–making in the Intermountain West: implications for science policy 235<br /> Eric S. Gordon, Lisa Dilling, Elizabeth McNie and Andrea J. Ray</p>
<p>12 Evolving the practice of Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments 255<br /> Adam Parris, Sarah L. Close, Ryan Meyer, Kirstin Dow and Gregg Garfin</p>
<p>Acronyms 263</p>
<p>Index 267</p>