There is a growing popularity of data-driven best practices in various fields—such as climate change, biodiversity, and pollution; ensuring nutritious, healthy, and sustainable food; and societal transformations due to the rise of artificial intelligence and other next-generation digital technologies. A best practice is a technique or methodology that is generally accepted as superior to any alternative because, through experience and research, it has proven to be reliable leading to a desired result through evidence-based approach. Despite the fact that data and research are very important, it is simplistic to conclude that they are sufficient to improve practice. Expertise and intuition, as claimed in the previous chapter, are fundamental to reach the best solution to the problem. As a matter of fact, evidence-informed for policymaking has been borrowed from medicine and we hope it can still be borrowed from medicine, but with a more mature awareness to move faster from theory to practice on the ground.
Climate Change and Extreme Hazards