ERCL特刊征稿|Bottom-up Construction of Climate Risk Information

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• Theodore G. Shepherd，英国雷丁大学、德国尤里希研究中心
• Kendra Gotangco Gonzales，菲律宾马尼拉雅典耀大学、澳大利亚国立大学
• Masilin Gudoshava，肯尼亚东非政府间发展组织气候预测与应用中心（IGAD）
• Jennifer V. Lukovich，加拿大曼尼托巴大学
• Anna Sörensson，阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯大学、阿根廷国家科学技术研究理事会
• Chi Huyen Truong，尼泊尔国际山地综合开发中心

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Children from the primary school No 186 in Ciudad Evita, La Matanza, Argentina, installing a rain gauge to improve the communitary local flood alert. Copyright: Anticipando la Crecida http://anticipandolacrecida.cima.fcen.uba.ar/

Climate actions and solutions at the local scale need to be contextualized to the political, social and environmental specificities of each situation. This raises a demand for developing and mainstreaming fit-for-purpose approaches. The classical top-down approach to the construction of climate risk information starts from the global scale and proceeds to the local scale via downscaling, bias adjustment, etc. This approach has the advantage of being systematic. However, there are well-recognized limitations: the cascade of uncertainty, “supply-chain” mentality, implicit presumption of the knowledge deficit model, challenges to connect to the local situation. These limitations may contribute to the well-documented gap between climate knowledge and climate action, and furthermore can make marginalized communities invisible.

An alternative approach, which is generally referred to as bottom-up, starts from the decision scale and the decision context and aims to bring climate information into that context. In contrast to the top-down approach where the uncertainty increases as one moves from global to local, in the bottom-up approach the uncertainty increases as one moves from local to global. The bottom-up approach has the advantage of starting from local knowledge and expertise, and being able to consider multiple concerns. Thus, in contrast to top-down approaches which are prescriptive, bottom-up approaches are elicitive. The challenge is how to integrate diverse and heterogeneous sources of information, and relate it to authoritative top-down information such as that provided in IPCC reports. In other words, that of developing scalable methodologies which retain the richness of local descriptions.

The bottom-up approach also has implications for alternative paradigms for education and training in climate research. Experiences of climate scientists and scholars working collaboratively with local communities around the world, including the Global South, are already generating new learnings that are potentially valuable for scholars, scientists, educators and policymakers. In this focus issue we invite contributions from physical and social sciences, as well as from the humanities, that address this epistemological and ethical challenge. We particularly invite contributions that start from the perspective of marginalized and vulnerable communities, which are often left out of discussions around climate risk. Contributions should extend beyond a local level of interest, for example by addressing methodological aspects that allow enriching co-production processes linked to other cases and contexts. Key areas covered include but are not limited to:

• Storylines and narratives
• Incorporation of interdisciplinary and heterogeneous knowledge
• Co-production of climate information; practices for building relationships and trust with communities as a researcher
• How values and context determine what we consider as a line of evidence, and how we can navigate through multiple lines of evidence, in particular in data sparse regions
• Climate security from local to global scales
• Science-policy interactions in local decision-making
• Facilitating local climate resilience through social enterprise
• Community-based and ethnographic approaches; exploration of how to include local knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge
• Implications for climate education, research and training arising from engagement with local communities, especially Indigenous and other marginalized communities
• The role of citizens in defining a new narrative around climate risk

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投稿截止日期：2026年12月31日。