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urn:hdl:2117/388711 User selection and engagement for climate services coproduction Baulenas Serra, Eulàlia Bojovic, Dragana Urquiza, Diana Terrado Casanovas, Marta Pickard, Samuel Colin González Reviriego, Nube Lera St. Clair, Asun Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Degradació ambiental::Canvi climàtic Climatic changes Decision-making Meteorological services Social science Climate services Communications/decision-making Canvis climàtics Decisió, Presa de Meteorologia Climate services are high on the international agenda for their potential to help combat the effects of climate change. However, climate science is rarely directly incorporated into the decision-making processes of societal actors, due to what has been identified as the usability gap. This gap is partially due to a failure to timely and meaningfully engage users in the production of climate services, as well as misperceptions as to which users can best benefit from climate service uptake. In this article, we propose user selection and engagement guidelines that integrate important values from participatory science such as those of legitimacy, representativity, and agency. The guidelines consist of 5 + 1 steps: defining why, where, whom, which attributes, and which intensity and how to select and engage with stakeholders. While these steps may be initially implemented by an ideally interdisciplinary team of scientists and service designers, the final step consists of an iterative process by which each decision is agreed on together with the identified users and stakeholders under a coproduction approach. We believe this systematic user selection and engagement practice is key to support the design of climate services aligned to the actual needs of a wide and inclusive range of empowered societal agents. This work has been funded under the projects NextGEMS (101003470) and FOCUS-Africa (GA869575). Peer Reviewed Postprint (published version) 2023-05-24 Article https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wcas/15/2/WCAS-D-22-0112.1.xml info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/101003470/EU/Next Generation Earth Modelling Systems/NextGEMS info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/869575/EU/Full-value chain Optimised Climate User-centric Services for Southern Africa: FOCUS-Africa/FOCUS-Africa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en Open Access Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) American Meteorological Society