Abstract Increased social and environmental vulnerability to extreme climatic events and inherent aggravation of environmental and social problems has placed climate change adaptation as an urgent challenge for decision-makers. Understanding and using climate change information to advance the implementation of climate-friendly policies further compounds this challenge. A rich scholarly literature focusing on climate change adaptation endorses that investing in mechanisms that narrow the gap between climate change information production and its use is crucial to increase adaptive capacity. Based on this assumption, this paper investigates the extent to which two collaborative projects that functioned as boundary organisations in Brazil (CiAdapta project) and Australia (Climate Change Adaptation for Natural Resource Management in East Coast Australia) increased access to information, and enabled the continual and continuous usefulness of produced knowledge for climate change adaptation. Considering the distinction between usable and useful information, we applied six criteria to guide the data analysis and extract key lessons from each project. Our findings confirm that face-to-face interactions are more likely to result in research having the societal impact that is being increasingly required by research and funding bodies. Our findings also indicate that two key systemic changes are critical for the long-term influence of boundary organisations for advancing climate change adaptation. These include changes to the science, knowledge production process; and shift in the political culture.

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当突出科学不足以促进气候变化适应时：巴西和澳大利亚的经验教训

摘要 极端气候事件对社会和环境脆弱性的增加以及环境和社会问题的内在恶化使适应气候变化成为决策者面临的紧迫挑战。了解和利用气候变化信息来推进气候友好政策的实施进一步加剧了这一挑战。大量关注气候变化适应的学术文献表明，投资于缩小气候变化信息生产与其使用之间差距的机制对于提高适应能力至关重要。基于这个假设，本文调查了巴西（CiAdapta 项目）和澳大利亚（澳大利亚东海岸自然资源管理的气候变化适应）两个作为边界组织运作的合作项目在多大程度上增加了对信息的获取，并使生产的持续和持续有用适应气候变化的知识。考虑到可用信息和有用信息之间的区别，我们应用了六个标准来指导数据分析并从每个项目中提取关键经验教训。我们的研究结果证实，面对面的互动更有可能导致研究产生社会影响，而研究和资助机构越来越需要这种影响。我们的研究结果还表明，两个关键的系统性变化对于边界组织促进气候变化适应的长期影响至关重要。这些包括科学、知识生产过程的变化；和政治文化的转变。