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Reflexive climate service infrastructure relations
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Abstract Exploring existing climate knowledge infrastructures as the important backbone of service endeavours, the authors analysed how climate knowledge infrastructures are organised, how (far) they take into account the 'end user', and how processes of data infrastructure governance function. Following the... view more
Exploring existing climate knowledge infrastructures as the important backbone of service endeavours, the authors analysed how climate knowledge infrastructures are organised, how (far) they take into account the 'end user', and how processes of data infrastructure governance function. Following these themes, we first catalogued and mapped relationships of organisations involved in the climate data infrastructure value chain and conducted interviews with representatives of some of the mapped organisations in order to corroborate the literature research and obtain additional insights. We suggest viewing climate service infrastructure in the four dimensions of instrumentation, information, communication, and service infrastructures. We argue that success or failure of climate services will be determined, firstly, by the ability to view and practically embed users as integral partners in the co-construction of climate services rather than treating them as 'external factors' (cross-boundary reflexivity). Secondly, we argue that it will be crucial for the growth of the climate service market, and therefore wider societal resilience to pay more attention to communication and service infrastructures intersecting. This may take in multiple ways with instrumentation and information infrastructures (infrastructural reflexivity) in the sense of a "value network" (not simply a value chain) given all the fluidity of the service infrastructure.... view less
Classification
Ecology, Environment
Natural Science and Engineering, Applied Sciences
Free Keywords
climate services; infrastructure; knowledge; climate data; interactive infrastructure approach
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Journal
Climate Services (2020) 17
Issue topic
Special issue on European Climate Services Markets - Conditions, Challenges, Prospects, and Examples
ISSN
2405-8807
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed