Irina Dallo

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Transdisciplinarity Worldwide: Same Same but Different?
Dallo, Irina; Müller, Stefan Markus; Llanque, Aymara; et al. (2022)
International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2021: Creating Spaces and Cultivating Mindsets for Learning and Experimentation - Conference Booklet
Transdisciplinarity (TD) and TD research in different corners of the world are only very partially comparable – is that really the case? How much does TD indeed differ across social-cultural borders, and what commonalities might be shared worldwide? Let us explore these questions together and take the discourse of TD across social-cultural borders beyond the traditional, often deficient Global South-North comparison. In this session, we will get to know four case studies of TD research in different corners of the world, reaching from the co-production of knowledge in the Pacific to the co-creation of Swiss mobility hubs. Members of the case studies will further share how they deal with the challenges and limits of TD approaches. As a panel, the members will contrast their experiences and, together with you, try to carve out contextual differences and shared commonalities, considering specific social-cultural values and dynamics, power relations, and other key elements when conducting TD research. Learn how diverse TD (research) can be – and yet how specific patterns may keep all of us busy, no matter the social-cultural context, and provide us with opportunities to learn even more from each other.
Challenges and strategies in transdisciplinary research – early career researchers’ perspectives
Djinlev, Vanja; Dallo, Irina; Müller, Stefan Markus; et al. (2023)
GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Addressing socio-environmental challenges requires a multifaceted approach and a comprehensive understanding, which is precisely what transdisciplinary research can provide. The transdisciplinary approach, however, brings new challenges to early career researchers, who have to acquire the necessary methods and skills while conducting their ongoing research. Along with increasing access to resources and training, guidance from supervisors and informal exchange with other transdisciplinary early career researchers play key roles in effectively supporting them.
Towards a dynamic earthquake risk framework for Switzerland
Böse, Maren; Danciu, Laurentiu; Papadopoulos, Athanasios N.; et al. (2024)
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Scientists from different disciplines at ETH Zurich are developing a dynamic, harmonised, and user-centred earthquake risk framework for Switzerland, relying on a continuously evolving earthquake catalogue generated by the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) using the national seismic networks. This framework uses all available information to assess seismic risk at various stages and facilitates widespread dissemination and communication of the resulting information. Earthquake risk products and services include operational earthquake (loss) forecasting (OE(L)F), earthquake early warning (EEW), ShakeMaps, rapid impact assessment (RIA), structural health monitoring (SHM), and recovery and rebuilding efforts (RRE). Standardisation of products and workflows across various applications is essential for achieving broad adoption, universal recognition, and maximum synergies. In the Swiss dynamic earthquake risk framework, the harmonisation of products into seamless solutions that access the same databases, workflows, and software is a crucial component. A user-centred approach utilising quantitative and qualitative social science tools like online surveys and focus groups is a significant innovation featured in all products and services. Here we report on the key considerations and developments of the framework and its components. This paper may serve as a reference guide for other countries wishing to establish similar services for seismic risk reduction.
What defines the success of maps and additional information on a multi-hazard platform?
Dallo, Irina; Stauffacher, Michael; Marti, Michèle (2020)
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Triggered by technical progress that has allowed for the combining of information about natural, anthropogenic and socionatural hazards, numerous multi-hazard platforms have been established over the last years. Despite their increasing use, surprisingly, little research has been conducted evaluating how the public perceives of the hazard information provided by these multi-hazard platforms. Because most of them use maps on the start page, we were especially interested in the different approaches towards presenting multiple hazards and towards compiling the contents of the hazard announcements attached to the maps. With an online conjoint choice experiment (N = 768, fully randomised design), we tested different start page designs and hazard announcements representing the diversity of elements used in multi-hazard platforms. The alternatives were randomly displayed as pairs to the participants (between-subjects design), asking them to first rate the alternatives separately and then to choose which of the two they preferred. Our main results are that the participants prefer a start page consisting of a single map with textual information about the current hazards below the map. In addition, they prefer hazard classifications with four or five hazard categories. Moreover, the participants appreciate the embedding of a sharing function in the hazard announcements. Finally, the participants prefer a combination of textual and pictured behavioural recommendations. To conclude, the results indicate that the design of information provided on multi-hazard platforms indeed affects the public's preferences. Therefore, in parallel to the continuous improvement of scientific-technical products, the communication and perception of these products should be systematically examined too.
Risk communication in a rapidly evolving environment: The ethical and societal challenges
Dallo, Irina; Marti, Michèle; Fallou, Laure; et al. (2024)
Geoethics for the Future
Pandemics, climate change, natural hazards, and other disasters contribute to a dynamically shifting risk landscape. They have an impact on the social and political adaptability, economic volatility, as well as the availability of resources. Thus, such complex disasters challenge today's societies. Providing hazard and risk information to enable informed decision-making must, in consequence, be agile and smart. While interconnected communication spaces and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and Internet of Things facilitate faster and more precise information dissemination, they also impact people's expectations and information consumption. The dynamics of online communication lead to an easier generation and spreading of misinformation. They also contribute to the creation of bubbles, where people are only exposed to certain information, which might support misbeliefs. Moreover, publicly available data is sometimes used by individuals and groups to create correlations without any evidence and thereby support misbeliefs (e.g., the spread of COVID-19 due to the operation of 5G networks). These dynamics can further negatively influence how societies deal with disasters, leading to harmful behaviors and, thus, worsening a crisis situation. Therefore, well thought out communication strategies are needed to support the dissemination of relevant and useful hazard and risk information, strengthen societies' resilience, and fight the spread of misinformation. In this chapter, we will address ethical and societal challenges related to the spread of misinformation and provide recommendations for counteractions. We will specifically focus on obligations to provide and shape persisting or newly generated hazard and risk information, and to contradict misinformation.
Forks in the road: Critical design moments for identifying key processes in stakeholder interaction
Pearce, BinBin J.; Dallo, Irina; Choi, Victoria; et al. (2022)
GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Much of the knowledge regarding “what works” in creating stakeholder events remains tacit. This article describes the concept of critical design moments (CDMs) as a guide for designing context-sensitive and inclusive stakeholder interactions. The approach makes often implicit processes explicit. It is rooted in the experiences of coordinating and participating in a transdisciplinary winter school in a village in Switzerland. While the importance of transdisciplinary (Td) processes as a means to address societal problems is well-established, guidance for the intentional design of stakeholder interactions to meet specific goals, under different conditions and contexts, remains less explored. We propose the concept of critical design moments (CDMs) as a lens through which to identify key processes in the design of stakeholder interactions that affect the relevance and impact of its outcomes. We demonstrate how an approach using CDMs can help to make explicit not only the goals of stakeholder interactions, but also how these goals might be met through the process design of specific activities orienting these interactions. The CDMs were identified as part of the implementation of a Td winter school for early career researchers to provide them with real-world experiences of interacting with stakeholders and local residents of a community. This work provides an approach for how Td stakeholder interactions can be designed in other Td contexts.
Editorial: Dynamic earthquake hazard and risk communication
Dallo, Irina; Orchiston, Caroline; Fallou, Laure (2024)
Frontiers in Communication
How to Fight Earthquake Misinformation: A Communication Guide
Fallou, Laure; Marti, Michèle; Dallo, Irina; et al. (2022)
Seismological Research Letters
How to best involve different stakeholders in the design process of products and services to communicate multi-hazard information?
Dallo, Irina; Marti, Michèle (2021)
EGUsphere
In order to have an impact in practice, research approaches should reflect real conditions as much as possible and generate user-oriented findings. To this end, we need an interdisciplinary exchange among experts and authorities considering institutional structures. Moreover, a combination of innovative methods is required to assess the diverse public’s needs and to generate useful findings for the design of products and services to communicate multi-hazard information. Furthermore, the findings should be communicated to the scientific community as well as to the authorities and the public. Our contribution demonstrates a successful approach for involving different stakeholders in the design process of products and services in a multi-hazard context. For our research, we are using a participatory and user-centred systemic approach with a major emphasis on user requirements driving future developments. It can be understood as a multi-perspective bottom-up approach, involving not only scientists from different disciplines but also authorities (e.g. decision makers) and the public. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods thereby allows to understand the wider social and structural context and thus to implement sustainable and suitable services and products. A combination of various methods is used in this approach to assess the needs of the scientists, the public and the authorities. With surveys, we assess general patterns and needs and identify challenges and potentials. To compensate for the artificial setting questionnaires establish, we include experiments (e.g. conjoint choice experiments) into the surveys to test different options. With interviews or focus group discussions, we further deepen aspects that we quantitatively assessed in order to better understand people’s beliefs behind their choices. Moreover, we apply interactive methods from the design thinking toolbox, such as user-driven prototyping. This methods allow an understanding of users’ thinking and reveals needs and features that developers may not have thought of. Furthermore, we used the actor constellation – a role-play for jointly sorting out the relevance of various involved actors – to map the connections between the actors and to identify potential conflicts. To gain further insights and to contentiously enhance our products and services, we maintain a constant dialogue with different stakeholders. An important aspect of this dialogue is the transparent and active communication of the findings to the scientific community as well as to the authorities and the public. For this purpose, we use the following mechanisms: co-creation of knowledge with key stakeholders, open-access papers for scientific journals, personal contact with actors involved, presentation at conferences, non-scientific reports for authorities (in the national languages), blog posts, social media posts, and exchange of knowledge and experience via project platforms. In order to be successful, the information communicated should meet the target audiences’ expectations.
Nine recommendations for engaging with the public and stakeholders for Carbon Capture, Transportation, Utilization, and Storage
Eberenz, Samuel; Dallo, Irina; Marti, Michèle; et al. (2024)
Energy Research and Social Science
A successful implementation of Carbon Capture, Transportation, Utilization, and Storage (CCTS/CCUS) projects depends on proactively communicating to and engaging with the public and relevant stakeholders. Based on our research in the framework of a pilot project demonstrating two complementary CCTS/CCUS pathways for Switzerland, we underpin this importance and present and exemplify nine recommendations for communication and stakeholder engagements. In a nutshell, ongoing stakeholder engagement and tailored public communication are crucial to address evolving information needs. We recommend providing clear examples, involve relevant stakeholders early, and adapt strategies dynamically to build capacities for evidence-based decisions regarding CCTS/CCUS pathways. For a differentiated public debate, presenting CCTS/CCUS pathways as complementary to broader climate strategies and renewable energy adoption is key.

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