scholarly journals Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to action

2022 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 102456
Author(s):  
Yogesh K. Dwivedi ◽  
Laurie Hughes ◽  
Arpan Kumar Kar ◽  
Abdullah M. Baabdullah ◽  
Purva Grover ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Call To Action

scholarly journals The Evolution of Communicating the Uncertainty of Climate Change to Policymakers: A Study of IPCC Synthesis Reports

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2466
Author(s):  
Tomas Molina ◽  
Ernest Abadal
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
The Public ◽  
Level Of Confidence ◽  
Ipcc Report ◽  
Degree Of Certainty ◽  
History Of ◽  
Tackle Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports on climate change have served to alert both the public and policymakers about the scope of the predicted changes and the effects they would have on natural and economic systems. The first IPCC report was published in 1990, since which time a further four have been produced. The aim of this study was to conduct a content analysis of the IPCC Summaries for Policymakers in order to determine the degree of certainty associated with the statements they contain. For each of the reports we analyzed all statements containing expressions indicating the corresponding level of confidence. The aggregated results show a shift over time towards higher certainty levels, implying a “Call to action” (from 32.8% of statements in IPCC2 to 70.2% in IPCC5). With regard to the international agreements drawn up to tackle climate change, the growing level of confidence expressed in the IPCC Summaries for Policymakers reports might have been a relevant factor in the history of decision making.

scholarly journals A Methodology for the Assessment of Climate Change Adaptation Options for Cultural Heritage Sites

Climate ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Bethune Carmichael ◽  
Greg Wilson ◽  
Ivan Namarnyilk ◽  
Sean Nadji ◽  
Jacqueline Cahill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
National Park ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Cultural Sites ◽  
Arnhem Land ◽  
Professional Resources

Cultural sites are particularly important to Indigenous peoples, their identity, cosmology and sociopolitical traditions. The benefits of local control, and a lack of professional resources, necessitate the development of planning tools that support independent Indigenous cultural site adaptation. We devised and tested a methodology for non-heritage professionals to analyse options that address site loss, build site resilience and build local adaptive capacity. Indigenous rangers from Kakadu National Park and the Djelk Indigenous Protected Area, Arnhem Land, Australia, were engaged as fellow researchers via a participatory action research methodology. Rangers rejected coastal defences and relocating sites, instead prioritising routine use of a risk field survey, documentation of vulnerable sites using new digital technologies and widely communicating the climate change vulnerability of sites via a video documentary. Results support the view that rigorous approaches to cultural site adaptation can be employed independently by local Indigenous stakeholders.

The Drivers of Corporate Climate Change Strategies and Public Policy

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles A. Backman ◽  
Alain Verbeke ◽  
Robert A. Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Information Management ◽  
North American ◽  
Climate Change Impact ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Change Impact ◽  
Better Than

Effective public policy to mitigate climate change footprints should build on data-driven analysis of firm-level strategies. This article’s conceptual approach augments the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm and identifies investments in four firm-level resource domains (Governance, Information management, Systems, and Technology [ GISTe]) to develop capabilities in climate change impact mitigation. The authors denote the resulting framework as the GISTe model, which frames their analysis and public policy recommendations. This research uses the 2008 Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) database, with high-quality information on firm-level climate change strategies for 552 companies from North America and Europe. In contrast to the widely accepted myth that European firms are performing better than North American ones, the authors find a different result. Many firms, whether European or North American, do not just “talk” about climate change impact mitigation, but actually do “walk the talk.” European firms appear to be better than their North American counterparts in “walk I,” denoting attention to governance, information management, and systems. But when it comes down to “walk II,” meaning actual Technology-related investments, North American firms’ performance is equal or superior to that of the European companies. The authors formulate public policy recommendations to accelerate firm-level, sector-level, and cluster-level implementation of climate change strategies.

Shape-shifting and other points of convergence: Inuit art and digital technologies

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-41
Author(s):  
Maureen Flynn-Burhoe
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Interactive Multimedia ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
Share Information

Western thinking, which is predominantly linear and analytical, does not adequately give access to the complexities of Inuit visual culture. However hypertext offers new possibilities for information management, and the aboriginal communities are using it creatively to share information, as for example in the Internet record of the development of Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut. This article examines how and why interactive multimedia were the means chosen to develop a master’s thesis on the Inuit artist Jessie Oonark.

scholarly journals Gestão da Informação: desafios e competências para preservação digital

Prisma Com ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 123-144
Author(s):  
Angélica Cintra Fermann ◽  
Assahi Pereira Lima ◽  
Suzana Mayumi Iha Chardulo
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Documents ◽  
Information Object ◽  
Adopted Model ◽  
Information Professional ◽  
Qualitative Nature ◽  
Information Professionals

The objective of this paper is to make an analysis and reflection about the Information Management (IM), digital preservation and the skills of the information professional, especially, the Librarian. This research is from qualitative nature and exploratory character, with the purpose of providing to researchers a better familiarity with the problem pointed in this study and build reflections based on an expanded knowledge about the imposed challenge by the information management and by the scope of the digital preservation, pursuing evidences of the studied subjects. The paper, initially, addresses the concept of the Information Management (IM), the challenges of Big Data and the information cycle. Secondly, explicit and analyzes politics, proceedings, and strategies of preservation of digital documents. Further, explicit that beyond a so challenging scenario, where the information object dialogs preferentially with the Digital Technologies,the chosen of the professional with the desire skill and abilities becomes a strategy for the success of the adopted model. When realized the need of the integration of multiples knowledge, developing a set of skills, the librarian, professional chosen as the studied object, must be prepared to answer the market of digital preservation. On this stage of the research there are no findings yet that could trace a safe conclusion. However, the question is evident - educate information professionals with the capacity to face the challenges of a digital economy is an attitude to be consider for the universities that intend to engage in the digital transformation.

scholarly journals Connecting the world through local Indigenous Knowledge

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Margaret Sraku-Lartey
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Herbal Medicine ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Sacred Groves ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

This paper focuses upon the importance and value of local Indigenous Knowledge and how it is being threatened in today’s modern world rather than being leveraged to catalyze development. The author specifically calls out three types of Indigenous Knowledge: (1) medicinal knowledge related to human health, i.e., herbal medicine; (2) sacred groves – geographic areas set aside to preserve plants and animals and that can help to mitigate the impact of climate change; and (3) living libraries – communities of people who are also holders of cultural wisdom and history and who are custodians of all knowledge relating to the history of their own community. The author makes a call to action, requesting that scientists, librarians, publishers, and others in the information community collaborate and move forward together to save and build upon global Indigenous Knowledge.

scholarly journals A climate service for ecologists: sharing pre-processed EURO-CORDEX regional climate scenario data using the eLTER Information System

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 631-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susannah Rennie ◽  
Klaus Goergen ◽  
Christoph Wohner ◽  
Sander Apweiler ◽  
Johannes Peterseil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Information System ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Regional Climate Change ◽  
Information Management System ◽  
Lookup Table ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
Climate Service

Abstract. eLTER was a “Horizon 2020” project with the aim of advancing the development of long-term ecosystem research infrastructure in Europe. This paper describes how eLTER Information System infrastructure has been expanded by a climate service data product providing access to specifically pre-processed regional climate change scenario data from a state-of-the-art regional climate model ensemble of the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) for 702 registered ecological research sites across Europe. This tailored, expandable, easily accessible dataset follows FAIR principles and allows researchers to describe the climate at these sites, explore future projections for different climate change scenarios and make regional climate change assessments and impact studies. The data for each site are available for download from the EUDAT collaborative data infrastructure B2SHARE service and can be easily accessed and visualised through the Dynamic Ecological Information Management System – Site and Dataset Registry (DEIMS-SDR), a web-based information management system which shares detailed information and metadata on ecological research sites around the globe. This paper describes these data and how they can be accessed by users through the extended eLTER Information System architecture. The data and supporting information are available from B2SHARE. Each individual site (702 sites are available) dataset has its own DOI. To aid data discovery, a persistent B2SHARE lookup table has been created which matches the DOIs of the individual B2SHARE record with each DEIMS site ID. This lookup table is available at https://doi.org/10.23728/b2share.bf41278d91b445bda4505d5b1eaac26c (eLTER EURO-CORDEX Climate Service, 2020).

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