Table 1
Questions posed for thermal extremes priority mapping.
| Existing priorities and
strategies What are your priorities for coping with extreme temperatures? What are the adverse effects of temperature in your department? What are the strategies you use to address heat/cold and any adverse effects of the strategies? |
| Data streams What are your priorities for data around extreme temperatures? What existing data do you use and why? What new data are needed and how should data be used? What data would make your job easier? |
| Policy
conflicts What do you prioritize when it comes to resolving conflict between departments? As you see it, what are the key conflicts between policies or practices? What are the synergies between policies or practices? |
| Vision What do you think should be prioritized in order to address extreme temperatures more holistically? What are other examples of visionary ideas in your opinion? If you could change one policy or practice, what would that be? |
Table 2
Questions posed for World Café activities.
| Round 1 | Round 2 |
|---|---|
| Importance of the problem | |
| What is important to you and your agency
about managing extreme cold/heat? How does your organization address vulnerability to heat and cold? What assumptions do we need to test or challenge in trying to address this problem? | In what way is the problem of heat and
cold vulnerability important to the
[health/energy/transportation/environmental] sector? What is the unique contribution that the [health/energy/transportation/environmental] sector makes to managing heat and cold vulnerability? |
| Naming what we don’t know | |
| What is missing from our understanding of
extreme cold/heat? What are we not seeing? Where do we need more clarity? Who is missing from this conversation and how might that person see the problem differently? What information would be useful for improving programs to address thermal vulnerability? | In what ways could your organization
support [health/energy/transportation/environmental] organizations
in protecting people against heat and cold (and vice
versa)? What is the unique contribution that the [health/energy/transportation/environmental] sector makes to managing heat and cold vulnerability? |
| Creating a vision | |
| How can academia and local government
support each other in taking the next steps? What is the unique contribution that each makes? What would it take to better prepare for extreme cold/heat? How can technology support this? | What could it take to work
together? What information could researchers provide to facilitate collaboration? How can technology support collaboration? How can we support each other in taking the next steps? |
Figure 1
The Thermally-Resilient Communities Collaborative (TRCC) framework showing the techno-policy inscription process pre- and post-intervention evaluations.
Figure 2
Application of the Thermally-Resilient Communities Collaborative (TRCC) framework to design of the Buffalo–Tempe Collaborative. Techno-policy inscription processes include arenas of development along linked thermal sensing, and action and policy themes in which pre- and post-intervention scripts are analysed.