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7 Summary of Key Findings and Recommendations
7 Summary of Key Findings and Recommendations
Pages 127-132
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• SBS research offers great potential not just for improving communications of hazardous weather warnings, but also for improving preparedness and mitiga tion for weather risks, for hazard monitoring, assessment, and forecasting pro cesses, for emergency management and response, and for long-term recovery efforts. • The past few decades have seen a variety of innovative research projects and activities bring social and behavioral sciences within the weather enterprise; these efforts have made demonstrable contributions both to the social and behavioral sciences and to meteorology.
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could, with modest additions and greater interagency coordination, signifi cantly expand our understanding of the social context of hazardous weather. • Meteorologists and others in the weather enterprise could benefit from a more realistic understanding of the diverse disciplines, theories, and research method ologies used within the social and behavioral sciences; of the time and resources needed for robust SBS research; and of the inherent limitations in providing simple, universally applicable answers to complex social science questions.
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Recommendation: Leaders of the weather enterprise should take steps to accelerate this paradigm shift by underscoring the importance of social and behavioral science (SBS) contributions in fulfilling their organizational missions and achieving operational and research goals, bringing SBS expertise into their leadership teams, and establishing relevant policies and goals to effect necessary organizational changes.
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This planning process should also address critical supporting activities for research assessment, agenda setting, community building, and information sharing, and the development of methods to collectively track funding support for this suite of research activities at the SBS-weather interface. In addition, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration should build more sustainable institutional capacity for research and operations at the SBS-weather interface and should advance coopera ive planning to expand t SBS research among other federal agencies that play critical roles in weatherrelated research operations.
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To address this gap requires system-level studies of weather information production, dissemination, and evaluation; studies of how forecasters, broadcast media, emergency and transportation managers, and private weather companies create information, interact, and communicate among themselves; studies of forecaster decision making, such as what observational platforms and numerical weather predic tion guidance forecasters use and how they use them; studies of how to assess the economic value of weather services; and studies of team performance and organizational behavior within weather forecast offices and other parts of the weather enterprise. • Risk assessments and responses, and factors influencing these processes.
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