Participatory futures methods: towards adaptability and resilience in climate‐vulnerable communities

Gidley, Jennifer M.; Fien, John; Smith, Jodi-Anne Michelle; Thomsen, Dana C.; Smith, Timothy F.

doi:10.1002/eet.524

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“…Thus, urban climate resilience needs to be seen as the degree to which cities can tolerate stress before they must restructure and reform [53], and urban climate resilience and related discussions must constitute a significant portion of policy design [67]. This leads to a discourse about maintaining a system designed to lessen disaster risks and about cities and local governments' executive power to successfully implement changes [54,68]. Local governments' executive power means they have the ability to design comprehensive resilience policies with participation from various stakeholders during the decision-making process to bring about innovative changes.…”

Section: Rationale For the Discourse On Urban Climate Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Resilience in Climate Change Adaptation: A Conceptual Framework

Kim

Lim

2016

Sustainability

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This study presents a conceptual framework for analyzing urban resilience in the context of climate change. The key conceptual elements of resilience are first identified and then reorganized with a focus on cities and climate change adaptation. This study covers not only ecological and engineering resilience but also resilience as a sociopolitical process from an evolutionary perspective. The study's conceptual framework centers on resilience as it relates to cities and climate change. Its findings are expected to shed light on future urban planning and policies for adapting to climate change.

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Section: Rationale For the Discourse On Urban Climate Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Resilience in Climate Change Adaptation: A Conceptual Framework

Kim

Lim

2016

Sustainability

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“…In such situations, the participatory analysis of options to manage the socialecological system may benefit from the use of scenarios of changes in the system (Ravera et al 2011). These scenarios may be constructed in collaboration with the stakeholders with the aim of fostering the actors' capacity for reflecting on their environment based on their own knowledge (Gidley et al 2009). …”

Section: Approaches To Initiate a Multi-stakeholder Dialogue In Unfavmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paving the Way for Social Learning When Governance Is Weak: Supporting Dialogue Between Stakeholders to Face a Groundwater Crisis in Morocco

Faysse

Errahj

Imache³

et al. 2013

Society & Natural Resources

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Approaches to improve the governance of social-ecological systems are difficult to define in situations where governance is weak, i.e., those involving limited interactions between the actors, and weak management of natural resources. This paper analyzes an action research process implemented in the Chaouia coastal region of Morocco, where weak governance of the social-ecological system led to a groundwater and agricultural crisis. A dialogue between local actors was set up with the aim of identifying strategies to address the crisis. First separately and then together, farmers' groups and staff of public organizations analyzed the existing situation, scenarios for the future of the area, and strategies to cope with the crisis. Contrary to the expectations of the participants, farmers and staff of public organizations had productive discussions. This approach clarified how social learning can be achieved and governance improved in this situation of weak governance.

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“…At the other extremity of the continuum, all scenarios are built in collaboration with the actors during the workshops. The aim of the latter approach is to increase the actors' capacity to reflect on their environment based on their own knowledge (Gidley et al 2009, Imache et al 2009). …”

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Participatory analysis for adaptation to climate change in Mediterranean agricultural systems: possible choices in process design

Faysse

Rinaudo²,

Bento

et al. 2012

Reg Environ Change

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There is an increasing call for local measures to adapt to climate change, based on foresight analyses in collaboration with actors. However, such analyses involve many challenges, particularly because the actors concerned may not consider climate change to be an urgent concern. This paper examines the methodological choices made by three research teams in the design and implementation of participatory foresight analyses to explore agricultural and water management options for adaptation to climate change. Case studies were conducted in coastal areas of France, Morocco and Portugal where the groundwater is intensively used for irrigation, the aquifers are at risk or are currently overexploited, and a serious agricultural crisis is underway. When designing the participatory processes, the researchers had to address four main issues: whether to avoid or prepare dialogue between actors whose relations may be limited or tense; how to select participants and get them involved; how to facilitate discussion of issues that the actors may not initially consider to be of great concern; and finally, how to design and use scenarios. In each case, most of the invited actors responded and met to discuss and evaluate a series of scenarios. Strategies were discussed at different levels, from farming practices to aquifer management. It was shown that such participatory analyses can be implemented in situations which may initially appear to be unfavourable. This was made possible by the flexibility in the methodological choices, in particular the possibility of framing the climate change issue in a broader agenda for discussion with the actors.

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Participatory futures methods: towards adaptability and resilience in climate‐vulnerable communities

Cited by 74 publications

References 22 publications

Urban Resilience in Climate Change Adaptation: A Conceptual Framework

Urban Resilience in Climate Change Adaptation: A Conceptual Framework

Paving the Way for Social Learning When Governance Is Weak: Supporting Dialogue Between Stakeholders to Face a Groundwater Crisis in Morocco

Participatory analysis for adaptation to climate change in Mediterranean agricultural systems: possible choices in process design

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