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New Information and Communication Technologies for climate services: Evidence from farmers in Ada East District, Ghana 气候服务的新信息和通信技术:来自加纳阿达东区农民的证据
IF 4 3区 环境科学与生态学
Climate Services Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100535
Rebecca Sarku , Famous Addi , Emmanuel M.N.A.N. Attoh
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Developing climate services for use in agricultural decision making: Insights from Australia 发展用于农业决策的气候服务:来自澳大利亚的见解
IF 4 3区 环境科学与生态学
Climate Services Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100537
Aysha Fleming , Simon Fielke , Emma Jakku , Yuwan Malakar , Stephen Snow , Sarah Clarry , Carly Tozer , Rebecca Darbyshire , Duncan Legge , Amy Samson , Mahesh Prakash , Tammy Hunter , Vincent Nguyen , Karen Wealands , Stephanie Dickson , Kevin Hennessy , Graham Bonnett
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Climatic drivers and temporal dynamics of sandstorms in the Hexi Corridor, China 河西走廊沙尘暴的气候驱动因素与时间动态
IF 4 3区 环境科学与生态学
Climate Services Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100532
Yanying Li , Xingwei Ma , Fucun Wang , Hongying Li , Xin Nie , Qifen Fu
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Bridging the communication gap in agrometeorological services: Enhancing the uptake and effectiveness for users in developing countries 弥合农业气象服务的沟通差距:提高发展中国家用户的吸收和有效性
IF 4 3区 环境科学与生态学
Climate Services Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100531
Vieri Tarchiani , Sebastian Grey
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Hard and soft climate-smart investments in aquaculture in Bangladesh: Conditioning factors and decision space 孟加拉国水产养殖的软硬气候智能型投资:制约因素和决策空间
IF 4 3区 环境科学与生态学
Climate Services Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100527
T.S. Amjath-Babu , Peerzadi Rumana Hossain , Sanzida Akhter Anee , Essam Yassin Mohammed , Timothy J. Krupnik
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A co-design matrix-based approach to evaluate the climate risks for airports: A case study of Bologna airport 基于协同设计矩阵的机场气候风险评估方法:以博洛尼亚机场为例
IF 4 3区 环境科学与生态学
Climate Services Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100536
Carmela De Vivo , Marta Ellena , Giuliana Barbato , Alessandro Pugliese , Francesca Marinucci , Tomaso Barilli , Paola Mercogliano
{"title":"A co-design matrix-based approach to evaluate the climate risks for airports: A case study of Bologna airport","authors":"Carmela De Vivo ,&nbsp;Marta Ellena ,&nbsp;Giuliana Barbato ,&nbsp;Alessandro Pugliese ,&nbsp;Francesca Marinucci ,&nbsp;Tomaso Barilli ,&nbsp;Paola Mercogliano","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100536","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100536","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change presents substantial challenges for the aviation sector, particularly concerning the assessment and management of risks to airport infrastructure and operations. Effective climate risk assessment is crucial for implementing prioritized adaptation strategies that enhance airport resilience. This paper introduces an innovative matrix-based co-design approach to evaluate climate risks for airports, illustrated by a case study of Bologna Airport, located in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The matrix-based approach, distinguished by its integration of climate hazard, exposure and vulnerability data, proves to be both robust and replicable, especially when key stakeholders actively participate in the process. The approach offers a systematic framework for identifying and assessing climate risks, facilitating the development of effective adaptation strategies. The Bologna Airport case study highlights the approach’s practical application, demonstrating its effectiveness in risk assessment and its potential to guide decision-making for more resilient airport management. The findings underscore the importance of early and equitable preventive actions and support, making vulnerability analysis a critical component in developing effective adaptation strategies. This research advances resilience planning in the aviation sector and offers valuable insights for other airports facing similar climate challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"37 ","pages":"Article 100536"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143174887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Developing national frameworks for climate services: Experiences, challenges and learnings from across Europe 制定国家气候服务框架:欧洲各国的经验、挑战和教训
IF 4 3区 环境科学与生态学
Climate Services Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100530
Nicola Golding , Keith Lambkin , Louise Wilson , Rozemien De Troch , Andreas Marc Fischer , Hans Olav Hygen , Angela Michiko Hama , Anita Verpe Dyrrdal , Ella Jamsin , Piet Termonia , Christopher Hewitt
{"title":"Developing national frameworks for climate services: Experiences, challenges and learnings from across Europe","authors":"Nicola Golding ,&nbsp;Keith Lambkin ,&nbsp;Louise Wilson ,&nbsp;Rozemien De Troch ,&nbsp;Andreas Marc Fischer ,&nbsp;Hans Olav Hygen ,&nbsp;Angela Michiko Hama ,&nbsp;Anita Verpe Dyrrdal ,&nbsp;Ella Jamsin ,&nbsp;Piet Termonia ,&nbsp;Christopher Hewitt","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100530","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100530","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many countries are actively developing a National Framework for Climate Services (NFCS), driven by a need for better coordination of climate services to support decision making, mandatory climate adaptation and financial reporting, and the assessment of the quality of climate services including their underlying data. A group of five European countries (UK, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland and Norway) has formed an informal peer-group to support, challenge, and share learning throughout the process of developing and evolving their NFCSs. This perspective article gathers these experiences to distil common themes and challenges as well as to identify unique characteristics and benefits of each country’s experience on their NFCS implementation. While this article focuses on the experiences and practical learning within Europe, the benefit of establishing an NFCS is global, and many of the challenges and learnings presented here will be relevant anywhere in the world.</div><div>It is the experience of this group that peer support has accelerated and enhanced the NFCS implementation process, as well as provided a forum for exchange on how to maintain and evolve an operational NFCS. Based on this experience, we propose an additional step as part of the WMO’s ‘Step-by-step Guidelines for Establishing a National Framework for Climate Services’ (<span><span>WMO, 2018</span></span>) to support countries to maintain and evolve their operational frameworks. Additionally, we recommend regional or global peer support on this framework development process should be sought, encouraged and facilitated.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"37 ","pages":"Article 100530"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142744275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Scalingclimate information services and climate smart agriculture through bundled business models 通过捆绑式商业模式扩大气候信息服务和气候智能型农业的规模
IF 4 3区 环境科学与生态学
Climate Services Pub Date : 2024-11-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100526
Desire M. Kagabo , Livingstone Byandaga , Patrick Gatsinzi , Patrick Mvuyibwami , Yvonne U. Munyangeri , Nasson Ntwari , Mathieu Ouedraogo
{"title":"Scalingclimate information services and climate smart agriculture through bundled business models","authors":"Desire M. Kagabo ,&nbsp;Livingstone Byandaga ,&nbsp;Patrick Gatsinzi ,&nbsp;Patrick Mvuyibwami ,&nbsp;Yvonne U. Munyangeri ,&nbsp;Nasson Ntwari ,&nbsp;Mathieu Ouedraogo","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100526","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100526","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is a general agreement among scholars that bundling Climate Information Services (CIS), Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), and other agricultural products and services can positively impact agriculture. However, many questions still need to be answered regarding how the bundling can be achieved through scalable and farmer-centric CIS-CSA bundled business models. This study narrowed the knowledge gap by revealing 1) how CIS, CSA, and other agricultural products and services may be bundled to support sustainable agriculture, 2) what types of CIS-CSA bundled business models are successfully reaching and benefiting farmers and entrepreneurs, and 3) proposing an evaluation framework for assessing CIS-CSA bundled business models ready for scaling. Drawing on the synthesis analysis of available relevant publications, we devised a 1–5 scale evaluation framework based on nine scaling readiness indicators—<em>technology</em>, <em>impact</em>, <em>bundling</em>, <em>infrastructure</em>, <em>relevance</em>, <em>evidence</em>, <em>barriers</em>, <em>sustainability</em>, and <em>value addition</em>—to assign scalability scores to 29 business cases with bundled CIS-CSA products and services across Africa and Asia. Eleven CIS-CSA bundled business models with publicly available quantitative scaling readiness data (financial capacity, the number of customers, customer categories, and the number of beneficiaries) were used to quantitatively model how different CIS-CSA products and services bundling strategies, the revenue stream structure of a CIS-CSA business, and the structure of a CIS-CSA business’s stakeholder network (the diversity of its stakeholders) affect its scaling readiness. Based on the scaling readiness evaluation framework, of the 29 identified CIS-CSA bundled business cases, 12 were ready for scaling. The quantitative analysis revealed that the type of a CIS-CSA model significantly determines its scalability— for example, a government-to-donor-to-business-to-consumer (G2D2B2C) CIS-CSA bundled business model would have 10 million USD more invested capital than a government-to-business-to-consumer (G2B2C) bundled business model type. Additionally, the G2D2B2C bundled business model type would serve 5 million farmers and three customer categories and gain ten partners more than the G2B2C. The finding also suggests that multi-stakeholder CIS-CSA business models, which provide a more diverse package of CIS-CSA products and services and have many revenue sources, have the potential to benefit all categories of farmers and entrepreneurs. This study reveals a reason for optimism about the future of agriculture; it suggests that scalable bundled CIS-CSA products and services can contribute significantly to attaining climate resilience and food security.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"37 ","pages":"Article 100526"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Improving smallholder farmers’ access to and utilization of climate information services in sub-Saharan Africa through social networks: A systematic review 通过社交网络改善撒哈拉以南非洲小农对气候信息服务的获取和利用:系统回顾
IF 4 3区 环境科学与生态学
Climate Services Pub Date : 2024-11-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100528
Collins E. Appiah , William Quarmine , Charity Osei-Amponsah , Andrew E. Okem , Daniel B. Sarpong
{"title":"Improving smallholder farmers’ access to and utilization of climate information services in sub-Saharan Africa through social networks: A systematic review","authors":"Collins E. Appiah ,&nbsp;William Quarmine ,&nbsp;Charity Osei-Amponsah ,&nbsp;Andrew E. Okem ,&nbsp;Daniel B. Sarpong","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100528","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100528","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The timely availability, access to, and utilisation of actionable climate information services (CIS) serve as an effective mechanism to address the impacts of climate change on smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Scholarly work from diverse contexts reveals that farmers’ social networks can be leveraged to promote access to CIS to mitigate climate risk. However, there is no synthesised information on the different insights that comprehensively demonstrate how social networks improve access to and utilisation of CIS among smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper employed a systematic literature review methodology to fill this knowledge gap. A stringent inclusion criterion was used to select 32 relevant peer-reviewed papers from an initial pool of 648 for analysis. Our study found farmers' social networks to effectively promote CIS access and utilisation among smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa. This was mainly as a result of the use of relatable local languages and the opportunity it provided for direct interaction during information flow. Smallholder farmers in big networks with stronger linkages, higher levels of participation, and a greater degree of trust, were identified to be more likely to utilise CIS to improve their livelihoods. Such farmers tend to have higher technical efficiency, productivity, and incomes. To harness social networks to scale up CIS access and utilisation, innovative platforms that can enhance social networking among farmers must be promoted and strengthened by agricultural development stakeholders.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"37 ","pages":"Article 100528"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Do climate-smart agricultural practices impact the livelihoods of vulnerable farmers in the Southern part of Bangladesh? 气候智能型农业实践对孟加拉国南部弱势农民的生计有影响吗?
IF 4 3区 环境科学与生态学
Climate Services Pub Date : 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100524
Mohummed Shofi Ullah Mazumder
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