Alaska Climate Webinar Announcement
What Do Alaskans Need? A Review of Documents Addressing Research Needs
Related to Climate Change
Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP)
Speaker: Corrie Knapp, ACCAP
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
10:00-11:00 a.m. AKDT
To register for the webinar, please fill out the form available at:
https://accap.uaf.edu/node/1019
The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) will host a
webinar titled "What Do Alaskans Need? A Review of Documents Addressing
Research Needs Related to Climate Change" on Tuesday, 11 March 2014 from
10:00 to 11:00 a.m. AKDT. It will be presented by Corrie Knapp of ACCAP.
Climate change is complicating the variables that Alaskans consider when
planning for the future. Communities, agencies, and other entities have
begun to grapple with both the information that they need to adapt to a
changing climate and how the processes and practices of science should
change to make science more useful. We reviewed and coded sixty-three
documents that expressed practical research needs related to climate
change in Alaska. Our goals were to document stakeholder-defined
research needs, assess whether there are spatial or topic-related gaps
in needs assessment, and understand what stakeholders suggest about how
science might be more relevant and useful in a changing climate.
Overarching themes include the need for more baseline data to understand
change, an interest in the social impacts of climate change, and a need
to incorporate local perspectives. Research needs that were most
frequently mentioned related to infrastructure, economics costs of
climate change, adaptation planning, policy, and impacts to subsistence.
Gaps included inadequate engagement of local perspectives and few
examples of community-level assessments. Documents nearly unanimously
expressed that science, as it is currently practiced, is unable to meet
the challenges of climate change. They call for processes that are more
transparent, collaborative, and accessible. They recommend changed
practices including maintaining accessible data-sharing archives,
building networks for knowledge sharing, and creating place-based
long-term partnerships with communities.
This review complements the climate-change literature by providing
concrete suggestions about stakeholder relevant research needs as well
as how to increase the utility of science from a region that is
experiencing some of the most dramatic climatic change on the planet.
To register for the webinar, please go to:
https://accap.uaf.edu/node/1019
For further information on the ACCAP Alaska Climate webinars, please go
to: http://accap.uaf.edu/webinars.
For questions, please contact:
Tina Buxbaum
Phone: 907-474-7812
Email: tmbuxbaum [at] alaska.edu
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