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ABSTRACT
Climate services entail providing timely and tailored climate information to end-users in order to facilitate and improve decision-making processes. Climate services are instrumental in socio-economic development and benefit substantially from interdisciplinary collaborations, particularly when including Early Career Researchers (ECRs). This commentary critically discusses deliberations from an interdisciplinary workshop involving ECRs from the United Kingdom and South Africa in 2017, to discuss issues in climate adaptation and climate services development in water resources, food security and agriculture. Outcomes from the discussions revolved around key issues somewhat marginalized within the broader climate service discourse. This commentary discusses what constitutes “effective” communication, framings (user framings, mental models, narratives, co-production) and ethical dimensions in developing climate services that can best serve end-users. It also reflects on how ECRs can help tackle these important thematic areas and advance the discourse on climate services.
Acknowledgements
Our special appreciation to the workshop coordinators Suraje Dessai and Coleen Vogel as well as the workshop mentors Joe Daron, Rachel James, Admire Nyamwanza and Katherine Vincent. We also wish to thank the British Council and Newton Fund for supporting the workshop on “Communication, interpretation and use of climate information for development” which took place in Cape Town, South Africa, 6-8/03/2017 (Reference number: RLWK6 - 261875805).
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ORCID
Eromose Ebhuoma http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3446-3463