Sammendrag
In the practice of climate change adaptation, typically facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high, and decisions urgent. This requires a so-called post-normal science approach. In a post-normal approach, the normal science task of fact-finding is still regarded as necessary, but no longer as fully feasible nor as sufficient to interface science and policy. It needs to be complemented with a task of exploring the relevance of deep uncertainty and ignorance that limit our ability to establish objective, reliable, and valid facts. To perform this task, Knowledge Quality Assessment (KQA) tools are central in post-normal science.In exploring new modes of co-constructing climate services, CoCliServ explores and implements a novel tool for assessing knowledge quality, using a checklist-based approach. These checklists should be used to structure discussion and reflection on quality in a transdisciplinary co-construction collective, where each member of the community has a responsibility to contribute their own knowledge and to appraise the quality of the knowledge provided by others. To this end, this deliverable presents two complimentary checklists for knowledge quality assessment of climate services. The first checklist focuses on an ‘external’ assessment in terms of a collaborative / joint assessment of climate services and knowledge by an actor group. The second checklist can serve as a self-reflexive and self-appraising ‘internal’ assessment. The checklists are for assessing knowledge quality relative to particular climate service projects, or instances when climate knowledge is used for responding to a specific problem or question or task. They assist in evaluating the relevance or fitness for purpose relative to that specific problem, question or task. The checklists are deliberation support tools. They are designed to support reflection and discussion about knowledge quality among a group of actors with an interest in a climate service project. The checklists are meant to trigger and structure a critical dialogue on knowledge quality of climate services within a co-construction collective.
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