Enabling knowledge for disaster risk reduction in integration to climate change adaptation - Deliverable 3.1.
Deliverable 3.1. Knowledge management system technical report
This report comes at the end of a research process that has investigated within a range of coordination activities the role of different types of knowledge in shaping data collection, information management and decision making in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in integration to Climate Change Adaptation (CCA). The process actually explored different trajectories.
First, different stakeholders were identified and defined in terms of their role in DRR and CCA. The aim was to develop a deeper understanding of the type of knowledge they rely on in their work devoted to risk mitigation and management as well as to see how they position themselves with respect to the knowledge that is produced by other stakeholders.
Second, four living labs were conducted in areas and with administrations with which some project partners had a strong relationship that enabled more profound knowledge exchange and even co-production with respect to the more traditional descriptive/analytical nature of case studies.
Last but not least, the work with a professional communicator of scientific content helped understand what scientific journalism can actually do to improve the risk knowledge by wider publics than the professionals who held a direct responsibility in risk mitigation.
The report is one of the deliverables of the KNOW-4-DRR project. Its aims are to analyse, assess and understand how knowledge about disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change is actually produced, managed and shared, and ultimately made use of – or indeed not used – by scientists, practitioners, decision makers, and by educational and civil society actors.