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Environmental Resilience Technology: Sustainable Solutions Using Value-Added Analytics in a Changing World

E. Natasha Stavros
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Caroline Gezon
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Lise St Denis
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Virginia Iglesias
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Christina Zapata
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Michael Byrne
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Laurel Cooper
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Maxwell Cook
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Ethan Doyle
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Jilmarie Stephens
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Mario Tapia
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Ty Tuff
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Evan Thomas
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SJ Maxted
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Rana Sen
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Jennifer K. Balch
Version 1 : Received: 23 July 2023 / Approved: 24 July 2023 / Online: 24 July 2023 (09:36:17 CEST)

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Stavros, E.N.; Gezon, C.; St. Denis, L.; Iglesias, V.; Zapata, C.; Byrne, M.; Cooper, L.; Cook, M.; Doyle, E.; Stephens, J.; Tapia, M.; Tuff, T.; Thomas, E.; Maxted, S.J.; Sen, R.; Balch, J.K. Environmental Resilience Technology: Sustainable Solutions Using Value-Added Analytics in a Changing World. Appl. Sci. 2023, 13, 11034. Stavros, E.N.; Gezon, C.; St. Denis, L.; Iglesias, V.; Zapata, C.; Byrne, M.; Cooper, L.; Cook, M.; Doyle, E.; Stephens, J.; Tapia, M.; Tuff, T.; Thomas, E.; Maxted, S.J.; Sen, R.; Balch, J.K. Environmental Resilience Technology: Sustainable Solutions Using Value-Added Analytics in a Changing World. Appl. Sci. 2023, 13, 11034.

Abstract

Global climate change and associated environmental extremes present a pressing need to understand and predict social-environmental impacts while identifying opportunities for mitigation and adaptation. In support of informing a more resilient future, emerging data analytics technologies can leverage the growing availability of Earth observations from diverse data sources ranging from satellites to sensors to social media. Yet, there remains a need to transition from research for knowledge gain to sustained operational deployment. In this paper, we use the Wisdom-Knowledge-Information-Data (WKID) Innovation framework to inform solutions-oriented science in an integrated Research to Commercialization (R2C) model that explores market viability for value-added analytics. We conduct a case study using this R2C model to address the wicked wildfire problem. By integrating WKID and human centered design (HCD), through an industry-university partnership called the Climate Innovation Collaboratory between the University of Colorado Boulder and Deloitte Consulting, we systematically evaluated 39 different user stories across 8 user personas and identified common gaps, how to define information technologies that add value, and how to develop a marketable product. This R2C model could enable transition of knowledge to operational implementation informing policy and decision makers, tasked with addressing some of our most challenging environmental problems.

Keywords

innovation; commercialization; decision making; human centered design; information technology; data analytics; resilience; environment

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Sustainable Science and Technology

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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