DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2015.05.002
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84944175645
论文题名: Creating synergy with boundary chains: Can they improve usability of climate information?
作者: Kirchhoff C.J. ; Lemos M.C. ; Kalafatis S.
刊名: Climate Risk Management
ISSN: 22120963
出版年: 2015
卷: 9 起始页码: 77
结束页码: 85
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Boundary organization
; Climate change adaptation
; Science and decision-making
; Synergy
; Usable knowledge
英文摘要: Boundary organizations facilitate and negotiate the interface between science production and use to improve information usability particularly for climate adaptation. To support the increasing demand for usable climate information and enable adaptation, boundary organizations themselves must innovate to foster more efficient production of usable science and more effective networks of producers and users. A recent innovation centers on the idea of boundary chains, whereby boundary organizations work together to increase efficiencies such as leveraging human and social resources. While this idea holds promise, more work is needed to better understand how and why boundary organizations work together to improve information usability and other beneficial outcomes. In this perspective for the special issue, we propose a new conceptual framework for exploring why and how boundary chains form and for evaluating whether or not they are successful. We then apply the framework to case studies that are discussed in more detail in this special issue. Our framework hinges on the notion that boundary chains that are successful are those that create synergy. In turn, synergy depends on a combination of complementarity, putting two kinds of inputs together results in greater output than either each engaging partner could deliver on their own, and embeddedness, the choices and actions on one side are at least partially influenced by and dependent upon the choices and actions of the other side and vice versa. © 2015 The Authors. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59058
Appears in Collections: 气候变化与战略
There are no files associated with this item.
作者单位: University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States; University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Ann Arbor, MI, United States; University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Great Lakes Integrated Sciences + Assessments, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Recommended Citation:
Kirchhoff C.J.,Lemos M.C.,Kalafatis S.. Creating synergy with boundary chains: Can they improve usability of climate information?[J]. Climate Risk Management,2015-01-01,9