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Want actionable climate knowledge at scale? Consider these three pathways
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University of Michigan researchers met with community members from five Great Lakes cities when developing the FloodWise Communities tool that helps assess flood risks. Image courtesy: Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments/GLISA
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A new study led by the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) offers three generalized pathways to help climate knowledge achieve its maximum impact.
Derek Van Berkel, an associate professor in SEAS, is one of 14 co-authors of the new study, which finds a unifying theme of the pathways: You need to get a lot of people involved.
“We should let a thousand flowers bloom to make this knowledge more actionable,” Van Berkel said. “We should be engaging with more people locally, then trying to scale up in multiple ways.”
Maria Carmen Lemos, professor emerita with SEAS, is a senior author of the new report, and Erica Goto, a research scientist at the Arizona Institute for Resilience at the University of Arizona, who was a postdoctoral researcher with U-M and GLISA, was a co-author.