Integrating Values to Improve the Relevance of Climate-Risk Research

IF 7.3 1区 地球科学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Earths Future Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI:10.1029/2022EF003025
Casey Helgeson, Klaus Keller, Robert E. Nicholas, Vivek Srikrishnan, Courtney Cooper, Erica A. H. Smithwick, Nancy Tuana
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Climate risks are growing. Research is increasingly important to inform the design of risk-management strategies. Assessing such strategies necessarily brings values into research. But the values assumed within research (often only implicitly) may not align with those of stakeholders and decision makers. These misalignments are often invisible to researchers and can severely limit research relevance or lead to inappropriate policy advice. Aligning strategy assessments with stakeholders' values requires a holistic approach to research design that is oriented around those values from the start. Integrating values into research in this way requires collaboration with stakeholders, integration across disciplines, and attention to all aspects of research design. Here we describe and demonstrate a qualitative conceptual tool called a values-informed mental model (ViMM) to support such values-centered research design. ViMMs map stakeholders' values onto a conceptual model of a study system to visualize the intersection of those values with coupled natural-human system dynamics. Through this mapping, ViMMs integrate inputs from diverse collaborators to support the design of research that assesses risk-management strategies in light of stakeholders' values. We define a visual language for ViMMs, describe accompanying practices and workflows, and present an illustrative application to the case of flood-risk management in a small community along the Susquehanna river in the Northeast United States.

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整合价值观,提高气候风险研究的相关性
气候风险与日俱增。研究对于制定风险管理战略越来越重要。评估此类战略必然会将价值观引入研究。但研究中假定的价值观(往往只是隐含的)可能与利益相关者和决策者的价值观不一致。这些不一致往往是研究人员看不到的,可能会严重限制研究的相关性或导致不恰当的政策建议。要使战略评估与利益相关者的价值观保持一致,就需要从一开始就围绕这些价值观进行全面的研究设计。以这种方式将价值观融入研究需要与利益相关者合作、跨学科整合并关注研究设计的各个方面。在此,我们介绍并演示了一种名为 "价值观心理模型(ViMM)"的定性概念工具,以支持这种以价值观为中心的研究设计。ViMM 将利益相关者的价值观映射到研究系统的概念模型上,以直观地显示这些价值观与自然-人类耦合系统动态之间的交集。通过这种映射,ViMMs 整合了来自不同合作者的意见,以支持根据利益相关者的价值观评估风险管理战略的研究设计。我们定义了 ViMMs 的可视化语言,介绍了相应的实践和工作流程,并以美国东北部萨斯奎汉纳河沿岸一个小社区的洪水风险管理为例进行了说明性应用。
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Earths Future
Earths Future ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCESGEOSCIENCES, MULTIDI-GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
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11.00
自引率
7.30%
发文量
260
审稿时长
16 weeks
期刊介绍: Earth’s Future: A transdisciplinary open access journal, Earth’s Future focuses on the state of the Earth and the prediction of the planet’s future. By publishing peer-reviewed articles as well as editorials, essays, reviews, and commentaries, this journal will be the preeminent scholarly resource on the Anthropocene. It will also help assess the risks and opportunities associated with environmental changes and challenges.
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