data and information needs
Mountain Observatories: Status and Prospects for Enhancing and Connecting a Global Community
This paper reviews the trends and challenges of socioenvironmental monitoring in the mountains and proposes principles and ways of supporting, developing and connecting mountain observatories
Framework for needs-informed research: assessing climate processes
This paper presents a framework for needs-informed research aimed at understanding the climate processes driving the African climate system's natural variability and response to global change.
Co-producing climate knowledge – Great in theory, but how about practice?
'Co-production’ of climate knowledge is far from easy to achieve in practice. This article looks at what we mean by 'co-production', the challenges involved, and how we can move forward.
Designing Knowledge Coproduction for Climate and Development
This paper explores the ways climate and development researchers are using knowledge co-production approaches and the extent to which the approaches are reaching their potential.
Identifying climate services needs for national planning: insights from Malawi
This article identifies the opportunities and barriers to the use of climate services for national planning in Malawi.
Courting complexity in climate services: Lessons from Participatory Scenario Planning
The Participatory Scenario Planning approach for seasonal decision-making at the local level has been adopted in 6 African countries and in SE Asia. This article discusses what makes it successful.
Dialogue for decision-making: unpacking the ‘City Learning Lab’ approach
The FRACTAL ‘City Learning Lab’ approach is designed to facilitate problem-solving at the intersection of climate change and urbanization trends across cities in Southern Africa.
HazardSupport: Risk-based decision support for adaptation to future natural hazards
Hazard Support aims to develop new methods for decision-makers and climate experts to tailor information about the impacts of climate change on natural hazards for adaptation decisions.
The Robust Decision Support process for participatory planning
The SEI practice of RDS is a participatory planning process based on a theoretical decision making under uncertainty framework referred to as Robust Decision Making (RDM).
EcoAdapt: Creating and Sharing New Knowledge Through Joint Learning on Water Governance and Climate Change Adaptation
This Occasional Paper presents the results of the EcoAdapt Project, a joint undertaking by four research and five civil society organizations from Europe and Latin America.