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Biblioteca(s): | INIA Las Brujas.
Fecha corriente: | 14/02/2022
Fecha de la última actualización: | 14/02/2022
Autoria: | VAUGHAN, C.; DESSAI, S.; HEWITT, C.; BAETHGEN, W.; TERRA, R.; BERTERRETCHE, M.
Afiliación: | CATHERINE VAUGHAN, Sustainability Research Institute and ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; International Research Institute for Climate & Society, Columbia University, United States; SURAJE DESSAI, Sustainability Research Institute and ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; CHRIS HEWITT, UK Met Office, United Kingdom; WALTER E. BAETHGEN, International Research Institute for Climate & Society, Columbia University, United States; RAFAEL TERRA, Instituto de Mecánica de los Fluidos y Ingeniería Ambiental, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay; MERCEDES BERTERRETCHE, Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca, Uruguay.
Título: | Creating an enabling environment for investment in climate services: The case of Uruguay's National Agricultural Information System.
Año de publicación: | 2017
Fuente/Imprenta: | Climate Services, 2017, Volume 8, Pages 62-71. OPEN ACCESS. doi:
ISSN: | 2405-8807
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cliser.2017.11.001
Idioma: | Inglés
Notas: | Article history: Received 10 July 2017; Received in revised form 20 October 2017; Accepted 2 November 2017; Available online 20 November 2017.

Contenido:

ABSTRACT.- Increasingly challenged by climate variability and change, many of the world's governments have turned to climate services as a means to improve decision making and mitigate climate-related risk. While there have been some efforts to evaluate the economic impact of climate services, little is known about the contexts in which investments in climate services have taken place. An understanding of the factors that enable climate service investment is important for the development of climate services at local, national and international levels. This paper addresses this gap by investigating the context in which Uruguay's Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries invested in and developed its National System of Agriculture Information (SNIA), a national-level climate service for the agriculture sector. Using qualitative research methods, the paper uses key documents and 43 interviews to identify six factors that have shaped the decision to invest in the SNIA: (1) Uruguay's focus on sustainable agricultural intensification; (2) previous work on climate change adaptation; (3) the modernization of the meteorological service; (4) the country's open data policy; (5) the government's decision to focus the SNIA on near-term (e.g., seasonal) rather than long-term climate risk; and (6) the participation of key individuals. While the context in which these enablers emerged is unique to Uruguay, it is likely that some factors are generalizable to other countries. Social science research needed to confirm the wider applicability of innovation systems, groundwork, data access and champion is discussed. 
© 2017 The Authors

Palabras-Clave: | Adaptation; Agriculture; Climate change; Climate services; Climate variability; Decision support; URUGUAY.
Categoría del tema: | P40 Meteorología y climatología
URL: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405880717300808/pdfft?md5=11e3ffd6626e8753789caef8d494d0b1&pid=1-s2.0-S2405880717300808-main.pdf
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