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Title Integrating social and behavioral sciences within the weather enterprise / Committee on Advancing Social and Behavioral Science Research and Application Within the Weather Enterprise, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Division on Earth and Life Studies ; Board on Environmental Change and Society, Board on Human-Systems Integration, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

Publication Info. Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 182 pages) : color illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series A consensus study report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine
Consensus study report.
Summary "Our ability to observe and forecast severe weather events has improved markedly over the past few decades. Forecasts of snow and ice storms, hurricanes and storm surge, extreme heat, and other severe weather events are made with greater accuracy, geographic specificity, and lead time to allow people and communities to take appropriate protective measures. Yet hazardous weather continues to cause loss of life and result in other preventable social costs. There is growing recognition that a host of social and behavioral factors affect how we prepare for, observe, predict, respond to, and are impacted by weather hazards. For example, an individual's response to a severe weather event may depend on their understanding of the forecast, prior experience with severe weather, concerns about their other family members or property, their capacity to take the recommended protective actions, and numerous other factors. Indeed, it is these factors that can determine whether or not a potential hazard becomes an actual disaster. Thus, it is essential to bring to bear expertise in the social and behavioral sciences (SBS)--including disciplines such as anthropology, communication, demography, economics, geography, political science, psychology, and sociology--to understand how people's knowledge, experiences, perceptions, and attitudes shape their responses to weather risks and to understand how human cognitive and social dynamics affect the forecast process itself. Integrating Social and Behavioral Sciences Within the Weather Enterprise explores and provides guidance on the challenges of integrating social and behavioral sciences within the weather enterprise. It assesses current SBS activities, describes the potential value of improved integration of SBS and barriers that impede this integration, develops a research agenda, and identifies infrastructural and institutional arrangements for successfully pursuing SBS-weather research and the transfer of relevant findings to operational settings"--Publisher's description
How production and dissemination of weather forecasts weaves through and interacts with our cultural values and behavioral norms, with numerous sectors of our economy (e.g., agriculture, commerce, energy, and water management), with a wide array of public policies. The Committee was charged to offer guidance to government agencies and other institutions in the weather enterprise, on strategies for effectively integrating social and behavorial science knowledge and it application into meteorology, weather forecasting, and hazard preparedness.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction -- The motivation for integrating social and behavioral sciences within the weather enterprise -- Assessing the current state of social and behavioral sciences within the weather enterprise -- Social and behavioral sciences for road weather concerns -- Research needs for improving the nation's weather readiness and advancing fundamental social and behavioral science knowledge -- A framework to sustainably support and effectively use social and behavioral science research in the weather enterprise.
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Subject Weather forecasting.
Weather forecasting.
Weather -- Social aspects -- United States.
Weather -- Social aspects.
United States.
Weather.
Weather -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Weather -- Economic aspects.
Weather -- Effect of human beings on.
Weather -- Effect of human beings on.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Advancing Social and Behavioral Science Research and Application within the Weather Enterprise.
Other Form: Print version: Integrating social and behavioral sciences within the weather enterprise. Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2018] 9780309464222 (DLC) 2018300918 (OCoLC)1019998553
ISBN 9780309464239 (electronic book)
0309464234 (electronic book)
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0309464250 (electronic book)
9780309464222 (paperback)
0309464226 (paperback)