{"id":3994,"date":"2019-12-05T18:45:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T16:53:40","slug":"the-politics-of-usable-knowledge-examining-the-development-of-climate-services-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2019\/12\/05\/the-politics-of-usable-knowledge-examining-the-development-of-climate-services-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of &#8216;Usable&#8217; Knowledge: Examining the Development of Climate Services in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2019\/12\/tanzania1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3995\" width=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2019\/12\/tanzania1.jpg 660w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2019\/12\/tanzania1-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Climatic Change (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10584-019-02510-w\" target=\"_blank\">Climatic Change<\/a><\/em> (2019)<br>by Meaghan Daly and Lisa Dilling<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abstract: The field of climate services has arisen rapidly out of a desire to enable climate science to meet the information needs of society to respond to climate variability and change. In order for knowledge to be \u201cusable\u201d for decision-making, in the field of climate adaptation and beyond, it must meet the criteria of credibility, salience, and legitimacy (Cash et al., PNAS 100:8086\u20138091, 2003). Deliberate \u201cco-production\u201d of knowledge between \u201cproducers\u201d and \u201cusers\u201d has the potential to increase usability for decision-making and policy in some contexts. While co-production is increasingly advanced as an instrumental approach to facilitate the production of usable climate services, such efforts have paid scant attention to the role of power relations. In this article, we bring together literature on normative approaches to co-production\u2014which treats co-production as an instrumental means to an end\u2014with analytical interpretations of co-production within the field of Science and Technology Studies to examine efforts to develop usable climate services in Tanzania. We show that without reflexive processes that are explicitly attentive to power dynamics, normative co-production within climate services development can serve to reinforce, rather than overcome, power imbalances among actors. <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencepolicy.colorado.edu\/admin\/publication_files\/2019.17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read more ... (opens in a new tab)\">Read more &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climatic Change (2019)by Meaghan Daly and Lisa Dilling Abstract: The field of climate services has arisen rapidly out of a desire to enable climate science to meet the information needs of society to respond to climate variability and change. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2019\/12\/05\/the-politics-of-usable-knowledge-examining-the-development-of-climate-services-in-tanzania\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 00:02:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4039,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/4039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}