March 21st, 6:10pm 0 comments

6 principles for resilient institutions

People and Place provides another winning post, this time reporting on a 2009 National Research Council document. The six principles for effective decision-support are also six good principles for building resilient institutions.

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Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate is a 2009 U.S. National Research Council publication. At the core of the book are six principles for effective decision support. (This text is shortened, without ellipses.)

We found that the same core principles that characterize effective decision support in such areas as public health, natural resource management, and environmental risk management apply to informing decisions about responses to climate change: (1) begin with users’ needs; (2) give priority to process over products; (3) link information producers and users; (4) build connections across disciplines and organizations; (5) seek institutional stability; and (6) design processes for learning.

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