Wendy S. Parker
Incorporating user values into climate services
Parker, Wendy S.; Lusk, Greg
Authors
Greg Lusk
Abstract
Climate services should consider not just what users want to know, but also which errors users particularly want to avoid. Increasingly there are calls for climate services to be “co-produced” with users, taking into account not only the basic information needs of users but also their value systems and decision contexts. What does this mean in practice? One way that user values can be incorporated into climate services is in the management of inductive risk. This involves understanding which errors in climate service products would have particularly negative consequences from the users’ perspective (e.g. underestimating rather than overestimating the change in an impact variable) and then prioritizing the avoidance of those errors. This essay shows how inductive risk could be managed in climate services in ways that serve user values and argues that there are both ethical and practical reasons in favor of doing so.
Citation
Parker, W. S., & Lusk, G. (2019). Incorporating user values into climate services. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-17-0325.1
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Apr 20, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Apr 30, 2019 |
Publication Date | Apr 30, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Aug 8, 2019 |
Journal | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |
Print ISSN | 0003-0007 |
Electronic ISSN | 1520-0477 |
Publisher | American Meteorological Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-17-0325.1 |
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