Tailoring climate information and services for adaptation actors with diverse capabilities

Abstract With louder demands in public discourse for action on adaptation to climate change, efforts improve the provision and use of information services (CIS) are also gaining prominence. Drawing literature about uptake CIS risk assessment adaptation, plus our own practical experiences, this Essay examines modes user-provider interaction CIS. By employing a customer-tailor analogy, three overlapping types transaction identified: ‘off-the-peg’, ‘outsourced’ ‘bespoke’. Evident across all ‘loyalty card’ customers who return same provider(s). We then offer set prompts facilitate more meaningful engagement dialogue between actors providers. These questions could be used seed discussions within communities that research provide training CIS, as well amongst stakeholders, funders other institutions involved governance systems. Such searching timely conversations advance tailored approach delivery, regardless technical financial starting point users