Futuragua: Fostering Cross-Scale Knowledge to Inform Social-Environmental Decision Processes for Building Drought Resilience in Highly Seasonal Environments

摘要: Improving resilience to drought in complex social-environmental systems (SES) is extraordinarily important, particularly for rural tropical locations where small changes climate regimes can have dramatic SES impacts. Efforts build must necessarily be planned and implemented within governance that involve linkages water land use administration from local national levels. These efforts require knowledge understanding links weather forecasts regional hydrology, social-economic environmental systems, processes. In order provide structure such choices investments, we argue a focus on structured decision processes among science, technological perspectives, public values conducted with agencies stakeholders will crucial framework comparing building insight pursuing alternative courses of action resilience. This paper focuses case study the seasonally-dry northwest region Costa Rica, watersheds rated as most threatened country terms drought. We present overall guiding transdisciplinary link scientific technical values, foster civil society actions lead improved Initial characterize hydrological reported along our approach linking natural science findings, social inventories perspectives SES, psychology patterns reliance forecast information basis characterizing understanding. The linkage value focused creating potentially short long time frames by making involving stakeholders, interested parties.