{"id":42,"date":"2023-12-21T18:56:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T23:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=42"},"modified":"2025-11-05T14:29:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:29:58","slug":"decision-making","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/chapter\/decision-making\/","title":{"raw":"Climate Science-Informed Decision Making","rendered":"Climate Science-Informed Decision Making"},"content":{"raw":"<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-505 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2144\/2023\/12\/ReportBanner-02-ClimateDecisionMaking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"144\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSupporting [pb_glossary id=\"225\"]KSA[\/pb_glossary]s for this area\r\n<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"border\" style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Knowledge Of<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Ability To<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Attributes<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Domain-specific KPI\u2019s\/performance metrics<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Identify assumptions and biases on the grounds of transparency, equity, and justice.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Incorporate a systems approach to decision-making<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Responsive to the culture, capacities and capabilities of those directly and indirectly involved.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Practice critical self-reflection and analysis on personal social location and bias.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div align=\"left\">\r\n<table class=\"grid\" style=\"width: 1185px\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 118.467px\"><\/td>\r\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 241.4px\" colspan=\"4\"><strong>Climate Science-Informed Decision Making Competencies<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 118.467px\"><\/td>\r\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 241.4px\"><strong>1. React\/Follow<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 241.4px\"><strong>2. Act\/Apply<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 278.333px\"><strong>3. Anticipate\/Initiate\/Enable<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 234.567px\"><strong>4. Lead\/Strategize<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 118.467px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Competency Title<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 241.4px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Follow climate science\/knowledge-informed decision-making processes<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 241.4px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Apply evidence-based decision-making practices<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 278.333px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Promote and encourage equitable decision-making processes.<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 234.567px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Steward climate action and transformative change at scale<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 118.467px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Competency Statement<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 241.4px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Follow climate science\/knowledge-informed decision-making processes within own area of responsibility<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 241.4px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Apply evidence-based decision-making practices that support climate action<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 278.333px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Promote and encourage equitable decision-making processes related to climate action activities<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 234.567px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Steward climate action and transformative change at scale<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 118.467px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Performance Criteria<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 241.4px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Identify and access reliable, timely, predictive climate information (data analysis products, forecasts, predictions) from established climate information services<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Use a systematic, iterative approach to assessing relevance and accuracy of underlying assumptions<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Acknowledge and navigate uncertainty and lack of data in decisions<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 241.4px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Identify and access reliable, timely, predictive climate information (data analysis products, forecasts, predictions) from established climate information services<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Analyse, synthesize and integrate relevant non-climate information (social, economic, cultural, historical) to inform decisions<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Apply a systematic, iterative approach to assessing relevance and accuracy of underlying assumptions<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Acknowledge and navigate uncertainty and lack of data in decisions<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Monitor, evaluate and learn from decisions in order to adapt to changing context and information<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Inform and ensure decisions undertaken reflect agreed upon values, practices, and policies.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Generate defensible decisions that support sustainable, adaptive climate actions<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 278.333px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Promote the ability to act and make decisions.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Adopt an adaptive, systems-based, and rigorous approach to decision-making processes and practices<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Include perspectives\/information from key interest-holders [planners, managers, decision makers, and the public] and Rights Holders<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Ensure the voices, views of those directly and indirectly impacted by decisions are included<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Assess the benefits, burdens, and potential harms and burdens of decisions on those directly and indirectly impacted.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Assess equity outcomes of decisions (will this enhance or undermine equity)?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Analyse personal and organizational assumptions and biases on the grounds of transparency, equity, and justice.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Identify decision-making levers and processes that respond to the specific cultural and place-based context with consideration of both hard data and humanistic\/emotional contexts.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Proactively address conflicts, concerns, questions, and issues<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Include ongoing monitoring and evaluation of decisions in implementation<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 234.567px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Lead through collaborative decision making; make decisions even in uncertainty; promote an environment that sustains previous competency levels<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Construct strategies that foster commitment, solidarity, and ownership in ways that translate into action<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Mobilize people towards broad-based, high impact action<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Generate defensible decisions that support sustainable, adaptive climate actions<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-505 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2144\/2023\/12\/ReportBanner-02-ClimateDecisionMaking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2144\/2023\/12\/ReportBanner-02-ClimateDecisionMaking.jpg 900w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2144\/2023\/12\/ReportBanner-02-ClimateDecisionMaking-300x48.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2144\/2023\/12\/ReportBanner-02-ClimateDecisionMaking-768x123.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2144\/2023\/12\/ReportBanner-02-ClimateDecisionMaking-65x10.jpg 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2144\/2023\/12\/ReportBanner-02-ClimateDecisionMaking-225x36.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2144\/2023\/12\/ReportBanner-02-ClimateDecisionMaking-350x56.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Supporting <a class=\"glossary-term\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-describedby=\"definition\" href=\"#term_42_225\">KSA<\/a>s for this area<\/p>\n<table class=\"alignleft\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"border\" style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Knowledge Of<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Ability To<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Attributes<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\n<ul>\n<li>Domain-specific KPI\u2019s\/performance metrics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\n<ul>\n<li>Identify assumptions and biases on the grounds of transparency, equity, and justice.<\/li>\n<li>Incorporate a systems approach to decision-making<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\n<ul>\n<li>Responsive to the culture, capacities and capabilities of those directly and indirectly involved.<\/li>\n<li>Practice critical self-reflection and analysis on personal social location and bias.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<table class=\"grid\" style=\"width: 1185px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 118.467px\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 241.4px\" colspan=\"4\"><strong>Climate Science-Informed Decision Making Competencies<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 118.467px\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 241.4px\"><strong>1. React\/Follow<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 241.4px\"><strong>2. Act\/Apply<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 278.333px\"><strong>3. Anticipate\/Initiate\/Enable<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 234.567px\"><strong>4. Lead\/Strategize<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 118.467px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Competency Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 241.4px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Follow climate science\/knowledge-informed decision-making processes<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 241.4px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Apply evidence-based decision-making practices<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 278.333px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Promote and encourage equitable decision-making processes.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 234.567px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Steward climate action and transformative change at scale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 118.467px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Competency Statement<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 241.4px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Follow climate science\/knowledge-informed decision-making processes within own area of responsibility<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 241.4px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Apply evidence-based decision-making practices that support climate action<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 278.333px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Promote and encourage equitable decision-making processes related to climate action activities<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 234.567px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Steward climate action and transformative change at scale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 118.467px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Performance Criteria<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 241.4px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\n<ol>\n<li>Identify and access reliable, timely, predictive climate information (data analysis products, forecasts, predictions) from established climate information services<\/li>\n<li>Use a systematic, iterative approach to assessing relevance and accuracy of underlying assumptions<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledge and navigate uncertainty and lack of data in decisions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 241.4px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\n<ol>\n<li>Identify and access reliable, timely, predictive climate information (data analysis products, forecasts, predictions) from established climate information services<\/li>\n<li>Analyse, synthesize and integrate relevant non-climate information (social, economic, cultural, historical) to inform decisions<\/li>\n<li>Apply a systematic, iterative approach to assessing relevance and accuracy of underlying assumptions<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledge and navigate uncertainty and lack of data in decisions<\/li>\n<li>Monitor, evaluate and learn from decisions in order to adapt to changing context and information<\/li>\n<li>Inform and ensure decisions undertaken reflect agreed upon values, practices, and policies.<\/li>\n<li>Generate defensible decisions that support sustainable, adaptive climate actions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 278.333px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\n<ol>\n<li>Promote the ability to act and make decisions.<\/li>\n<li>Adopt an adaptive, systems-based, and rigorous approach to decision-making processes and practices<\/li>\n<li>Include perspectives\/information from key interest-holders [planners, managers, decision makers, and the public] and Rights Holders<\/li>\n<li>Ensure the voices, views of those directly and indirectly impacted by decisions are included<\/li>\n<li>Assess the benefits, burdens, and potential harms and burdens of decisions on those directly and indirectly impacted.<\/li>\n<li>Assess equity outcomes of decisions (will this enhance or undermine equity)?<\/li>\n<li>Analyse personal and organizational assumptions and biases on the grounds of transparency, equity, and justice.<\/li>\n<li>Identify decision-making levers and processes that respond to the specific cultural and place-based context with consideration of both hard data and humanistic\/emotional contexts.<\/li>\n<li>Proactively address conflicts, concerns, questions, and issues<\/li>\n<li>Include ongoing monitoring and evaluation of decisions in implementation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 234.567px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\n<ol>\n<li>Lead through collaborative decision making; make decisions even in uncertainty; promote an environment that sustains previous competency levels<\/li>\n<li>Construct strategies that foster commitment, solidarity, and ownership in ways that translate into action<\/li>\n<li>Mobilize people towards broad-based, high impact action<\/li>\n<li>Generate defensible decisions that support sustainable, adaptive climate actions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"glossary\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\" id=\"definition\">definition<\/span><template id=\"term_42_225\"><div class=\"glossary__definition\" role=\"dialog\" data-id=\"term_42_225\"><div tabindex=\"-1\"><p>Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes. 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