Weather and Society: Toward Integrated Approaches

ISBN-13: 9780470669846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 232 str.

Eve Gruntfest

Opis

There is a growing recognition from academia, government, the private sectors, and the non-governmental sectors that integrated thinking and problem-solving across disciplinary boundaries is required to effectively address societal impacts issues in meteorology and hydrology. Within the weather and climate arena many early career physical and social scientists and engineers seek to learn about concepts, tools, questions, and policies related to more than one discipline but most academic departments, especially in meteorology and hydrology, are too narrow to allow much leeway for electives outside of their narrowly defined discipline. Weather and Society: Integrating Social Science provides comprehensive coverage of a new evolving problem-solving set of approaches to weather and climate issues that successfully integrates social science concepts and methodologies into weather and climate research and practice.This text has developed from the work undertaken through the WAS*IS movement (Weather and Society- Integrated Studies group) Designed to meet the growing demand from National Weather Service employees, international graduate students, hydrologists and other parties interested in understanding the societal impacts that can enhance their work as practitioners or researchers, this book provides the first interdisciplinary approach to the subject of weather, climate and society. Dr Gruntfest is the director of a new program at the University of Oklahoma called SSWIM (Social Science Woven into Meteorology). Increasingly she receives inquiries from National Weather Service employees, international and domestic potential graduate students, hydrologists, and others who recognize that some understanding of social science and societal impacts can enhance their work as practitioners, researchers or students. They also realize that it is difficult to find reference materials or courses to meet their need within the traditional university departments of meteorology, atmospheric science, hydrology, or even physical geography.

There is a growing recognition from academia, government, the private sectors, and the non–governmental sectors that integrated thinking and problem–solving across disciplinary boundaries is required to effectively address societal impacts issues in meteorology and hydrology.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements 4

Preface 6

1 THE NEED FOR INTEGRATED APPROACHES TO WEATHER AND SOCIETY 8            

2 HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT TO INTEGRATE SOCIAL SCIENCE INTO ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE  37

3 SOCIAL SCIENCE PARTNERS AND THE WEATHER/SOCIETY WORK THEY DO 68

4 THIRTEEN PROFILES OF LEADERS IN WEATHER AND SOCIAL SCIENCE 112

5 MOVING TOWARD INTEGRATED WEATHER AND SOCIETY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE – A NEW PARADIGM 141

6 WAYS TO BE PART OF THE TRANSFORMATION TO INTEGRATED WEATHER STUDIES 164

REFERENCES 204

APPENDICES 222

O autorze

DR. EVE GRUNTFEST is a geographer who has devoted her career to breaking down the barriers that separate social science and atmospheric science. She is Professor Emerita from University of Colorado at Colorado Springs where she taught for 27 years. She has published widely and is an expert in the areas of warning systems and flash flood mitigation.

During her career, she served on five National Academy of Science committees. She directed Social Science Woven into Meteorology (SSWIM – www.sswim.org) and is co–founder of the Weather and Society ∗ Integrated Studies (WAS∗IS) movement. She was a program officer in the Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Division at National Science Foundation and a member of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration′s Science Advisory Board.

Blurb

Weather and Society: Toward Integrated Approaches provides the first interdisciplinary approach to the subject of weather and society. This guide to the evolving set of problem–solving approaches to weather′s societal issues successfully integrates social science′s techniques, concepts and methodologies into meteorological research and practice. Drawing especially on the work of the WAS∗IS workshops (Weather and Society ∗ Integrated Studies), this important reference offers a framework for starting to understand how the consideration of societal impacts can enhance the scientific disciplines that address the scope and impacts of weather, particularly meteorology. Filled with tools, concepts, case studies and helpful exercises, this resource:

• Lays the groundwork for conducting interdisciplinary work by learning new strategies and addressing typical challenges
• Identifies leaders of the movement to integrate social science and meteorology and highlights their contributions
• Includes discussion of such tools as Geographic Information Systems, survey design, focus groups, participatory research and interviewing techniques and concepts
• Reveals effective integrated research and applications though real–world examples in a global context
• Helps to identify ways to pursue research, application, and educational opportunities for integrated weather–society work

Weather and Society is a hands–on guide for academics, students and professionals that offers a new approach to the successful integration of social science concepts and methodologies into the fabric of meteorological research and practice.