July 16th, 2018 | RESEARCH
Communicating about environmental risks requires understanding and addressing stakeholder needs, perspectives, and anticipated uses for communication products and decision-support tools. This paper demonstrates how long-term dialogue between scientists and stakeholders can be facilitated by repeated stakeholder focus groups. We describe a dialogic process for developing science-based decision-support tools as part of a larger sea level rise research project in the Gulf of Mexico. We demonstrate how focus groups can be used effectively in tool development, discuss how stakeholders plan to use tools for decision-making and broader public outreach, and describe features that stakeholders perceive would make products more usable.
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Denise DeLorme, Author, Louisiana State UniversitySonia Stephens, Author, University of Central Florida
Scott Hagen, Author, Louisiana State University
Matthew Bilskie, Author, Louisiana State University
Citation
Identifier Type: DOI
Identifier: 10.22323/2.17030203
Identifier Type: ISSN
Identifier: 1824-2049
Publication: Journal of Science Communication
Volume: 17
Number: 3
Funders
Funding Source: NOAA
Award Number: NA10NOS4780146
Award Number: NA16NOS4780208
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Audience: Administration | Leadership | Policymakers | Educators | Teachers | General Public | Museum | ISE Professionals | Scientists
Discipline: Ecology | forestry | agriculture | General STEM
Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article | Research Products
Environment Type: Professional Development | Conferences | Networks | Professional Development and Workshops