Participatory processes have been promoted to resolve the difficulties of forecast communication, dissemination, and application (such as inequity in sociopolitical status, capital constrains, and misperception of risk). Our work looks at a range of activities that both support and undermine participatory decision making, particularly when additional uncertainties, such as climate forecasts, are introduced.

Climate Information and Water Resource Management in Ceará, Brazil »
With this research we hope to get a better understanding of the behavior of individuals and groups and participatory structures associated with the Water Allocation Seminars in the Ceará state of Brazil. Such knowledge helps to device improved decision support for the use of climate information for water management.

Making Sense of Forecasts: the Role of Group Discussion in Understanding Climate Information »
This project examines group processes and goals in framing decisions and in using scientific information within well-established farming and pastoralist communities in Uganda.

Hypothesis Testing: Historical Research on Individual and Group Decision Making in Grasslands »
This project analyses the extent to which contemporary decision processes identified and tested in CRED research projects are replicated in earlier time periods.

More Research
Decision Making under the Impact of Glacial Retreat among Residents of Vulnerable Zones: Perception of and Response to Climate Change »

Climate Change, Vicarious Experience and the Social Amplification of Risk »

Individual, Household, and Technical Advisor-Assisted Agriculture Decision Making in the Argentine Pampas »

Making Sense of Forecasts: the Role of Group Discussion in Understanding Climate Information »

Strategic Use of Uncertainty »

To Cooperate or Not to Cooperate: Impact of Unrelated Collaboration on Social Dilemma »

Creating Trust in Groups »



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