“At the water's edge”: community voices on climate change

A picture of change: using photovoice to explore social and environmental change in coastal communities on the Andaman Coast of Thailand

“…Photovoice has seen significant usage in health, education, psychology, and community development research; however, it is only recently emerging as a tool for examining changes in the natural environment or for exploring human environment-interactions. Several noteworthy examples include the following: Berbes-Blazquez (2012) used Photovoice to assess the relationship between ecosystem services and human wellbeing; Bosak (2008) used the process to examine conceptions of nature with communities in India; Baldwin and Chandler (2010) focused on community perceptions of climate change; and, Beh (2011) examines its usefulness for generating conservation knowledge in Kenya. A team from Lakehead University has also recently used Photovoice to explore climate change with an arctic aboriginal community in Canada (Lemelin et al 2011).…”

Planning Support Systems and Smart Cities

“…Both scenarios take into account riverine flooding, storm surge and tides. The participatory process employed four consultation techniques over two workshops: (1) SCRC flood hazard maps of the two climate scenarios; (2) participatory mapping of vulnerable areas using a 27-inch screen tablet computer; (3) the visual research technique, Photovoice (Baldwin and Chandler 2010) and; (4) 3D scenes representing the two scenarios. Presentation of the flood hazard maps, participatory mapping and an introduction to Photovoice took place in the first workshop.…”

How scientific knowledge informs community understanding of groundwater

“…Swaab et al (2002) found that groups with visualisation support reached consensus more easily. The elicitation of values and emotive qualities appear to be factors in the impact of visualisation techniques (Baldwin and Chandler, 2010;Sheppard, 2005, p. 647).…”