Development and Pull-through of Climate Science to Services in China

1. IntroductionThe impacts arising from climate change and climate variability pose major challenges to global and regional security and economic prosperity（UNFCCC,2015）.Some regions are more at risk than others, through heightened exposure to climatic hazards, and high vulnerability and exposure to such hazards. China, with its rapid economic development, large and growing population, and frequent occurrence of disasters associated with heavy rainfall, flooding, tropical cyclones,

Preface to Special Issue on Climate Science for Service Partnership China

This special issue of Advances in Atmospheric Sciences provides a selection of research highlights from the Climate Science for Service Partnership China （CSSP China）. This pioneering partnership between China and UK based researchers has broken new ground in the development of climate science for services. By accelerating and enhancing collaborative science, CSSP China has built a strong foundation for services to support climate and weather resilient economic development and social welfare in China and the UK. In presenting some of the collaborative work undertaken in the project, this special issue illustrates the advantages of a sustained and ambitious scientific partnership developing leading edge research to support the climate services of the future. In this preface, we describe the genesis of the CSSP China project to develop science for services, explain the structure of the project, and consider some of the potential legacies.

Adjusting the information service strategies according to users' requirements—A survey of the library users' information requirements in the four library systems of Zhejiang province

Based on a survey of the circumstances of the information requirements in social science from more than 3,800 library users in 48 libraries of the four major library systems in Zhejiang Province,this paper analyzes the present main characteristics of the users' requirements to the social science document information and puts forward some proposals for adjusting the document information service strategies for the library and information institutions.

Shifting paradigm to service-dominant logic via Internet-of-Things with applications in the elevators industry

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how latest technology Internet-of-Things(IoT)can enable/facilitate traditional manufacturing firms shifting to more servicecentred business perspective.Service-dominant(S-D)logic has emerged to provide the right perspective,vocabulary and assumptions on which to build a servicecentred alternative to the traditional goods-dominant(G-D)paradigm for understanding economic exchange and value creation and has been identified as an appropriate philosophical foundation for the development of service science([Maglio,P.P.,&Spohrer,J.(2008).Fundamentals of service science.Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science,36,18-20;Maglio,P.P.,Vargo,S.L.,Caswell,N.,&Spohrer,J.(2009).The service system is the basic abstraction of service science.Information Systems and e-business Management,7,395-406]).S-D logic is in its current state of development is conceptual and few empirical studies exist to test such a logic realized in real business applications.On the other hand,IoT is a novel paradigm recently envisioned as a global network of machines and devices capable of interacting with each other to reach desired business goals in the real world.However,there is considerable research on IoT technical specifications but less elaboration on real business applications.This paper aims to describe IoT as a critical vehicle when manufacturing firms desire to transit to a more S-D and value co-creation business model,with an in-depth real business case study in the elevators industry.This paper aims:(1)to explain the distinction between G-D logic and S-D logic and its implication for manufacturing firms,(2)to examine how IoT can facilitate the transition from key S-D logic managerial implication perspective and(3)to conduct a case study in a new service offering of an elevator service business when transition to more S-D mindset by adoption of IoT,the purpose aims to examine whether the underlying technology can bring different ways of thinking when deploying a new industrial service offering.