Boundary organizations to boundary chains: Prospects for advancing climate science application

摘要: Adapting to climate change requires the production and use of information inform adaptation decisions. By facilitating sustained interaction between science producers, boundary organizations narrow gap decision-making foster co-production actionable knowledge. While traditional organization approaches focused on intense one-on-one interactions producers users increases usability, this approach significant time resources. Forming “boundary chains”, linking complimentary together, may reduce those costs. In paper, we longitudinal observations a chain, interviews surveys explore: (1) how producer-user increase understanding usability (2) if efficiencies in production, dissemination arise as result chain. We find that forming sustaining an effective chain not only interest, commitment investment from every link but also level non-overlapping mutual dependency complementary skill sets. case, GLISA’s strength producing scientific their credibility scientists HRWC’s strengths facilitation, connection with potential users, recognition reputation watershed add value enabling accomplish more greater efficiency than each tried work independently. Finally, data show increased educating about limitations improving dissemination, information.