Participatory processes and climate forecast use: Socio-cultural context, discussion, and consensus

Peterson, Nicole; Broad, Kenneth; Orlove, Benjamín S.; Roncoli, Carla; Taddei, Renzo; Vélez, María Alejandra

doi:10.3763/cdev.2010.0033

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“…The use of participatory approaches in climate change adaptation research has been identified as a way to elucidate beliefs and norms that contribute to gender dynamics (CARE, 2014;Lilja et al, 2001;Peterson et al, 2010).…”

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“…Participatory approaches are being used by development practitioners and researchers alike to understand perceptions about climate change, and communities' adaptation priorities and needs (CARE, 2014;Peterson et al, 2010). Adapting these approaches to the exploration of gender dynamics in the context of climate change may be the most appropriate way to improve the level of understanding in the climate change research community (Lilja, Ashby, & Sperling, 2001).…”

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Understanding gender dimensions of agriculture and climate change in smallholder farming communities

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In Uganda, Ghana and Bangladesh, participatory tools were used for a socio-economic and gender analysis of three topics: climate-smart agriculture (CSA), climate analogue approaches, and climate and weather forecasting. Policy and programmerelevant results were obtained. Smallholders are changing agricultural practices due to observations of climatic and environmental change. Women appear to be less adaptive because of financial or resource constraints, because of male domination in receiving information and extension services and because available adaptation strategies tend to create higher labour loads for women. The climate analogue approach (identifying places resembling your future climate so as to identify potential adaptations) is a promising tool for increasing farmer-to-farmer learning, where a high degree of climatic variability means that analogue villages that have successfully adopted new CSA practices exist nearby. Institutional issues related to forecast production limit their credibility and salience, particularly in terms of women's ability to access and understand them. The participatory tools used in this study provided some insights into women's adaptive capacity in the villages studied, but not to the depth necessary to address women's specific vulnerabilities in CSA programmes. Further research is necessary to move the discourse related to gender and climate change beyond the conceptualization of women as a homogenously vulnerable group in CSA programmes.

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Understanding gender dimensions of agriculture and climate change in smallholder farming communities

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Climate and Development

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“…Research on these initiatives document the challenges of including local perspectives through real-as opposed to token-engagement, as well as other barriers ranging from logistical challenges to differing forms of presentation to the variety of goals and motivations that enter participatory processes [77][78][79][80]. "Engagement practices are not merely techniques to be acquired in order to organize meetings effectively, but highly consequential choices that shape the inherently political process of planning and policy making [81,82]" in ( [83], p. 273).…”

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Five Approaches to Social Sustainability and an Integrated Way Forward

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Abstract:Sustainability is often conceived of as an attempt to balance competing economic, environmental and social priorities. Over the course of three decades of scholarship, however, the meaning and appropriate application of the 'social pillar' continues to inspire confusion. In this paper, we posit that the inherent challenge of understanding social sustainability is its many legitimate meanings plus a lack of interdisciplinary scholarship. We draw from literature in multiple disciplines to illustrate five different ways that the concept of social sustainability has been applied in scholarship and professional practice, and highlighting the importance of applications that acknowledge placed-based, process-oriented perspectives that understand social, economic, and environmental imperatives as integrated concepts. Ironically, this framing forecloses on social sustainability as an entity distinct from environmental and economic sustainability. We believe that organizing the conversation around these five applications can help advocates of sustainability use the concept of social sustainability in clear and powerful ways while avoiding applications that relegate the social dimensions of sustainability to an afterthought.

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“…Participatory processes might also lead to improvement in dissemination and in understanding of the climate information by endusers, thus enable decision making based on climate information (Peterson and Broad, 2010). However, it must be taken into consideration that norms and goals, which lie outside the participatory process itself, might guide the decision making subverting the activity (Peterson and Broad, 2010).…”

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Sharing Skills and Needs between Providers and Users of Climate Information to Create Climate Services: Lessons from the Northern Adriatic Case Study

Giannini

Bellucci

Torresan³

2016

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Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Seasonal Forecast Email NotificationSystem 3 , and UKCIP climate change scenarios (for UK). In order to increase effectiveness and usability of outcomes of climate research, some researchers have engaged with the potential end-users: the co-production of climate services increases possible use of the information (Vaughan and Dessai, 2014).Information useful for decision making could integrate physical climate information with other specific information, according to the local specificities and the institutional mandates, e.g. land-use planning, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, etc. (Asrar et al., 2012). Moreover, societies will benefit from climate services, if given in a timely and effective manner, because these, e.g., will give warnings on risks and impacts of climate change, support adaptation planning, sustainable development, water resources management, human health, weather risk management (Asrar et al., 2012;Scott et al., 2011). Climate research, in fact, can address specific needs arising from users, for example, the increase in climate knowledge and the improvement of its applicability can help us decrease impacts and risks associated with climate variability and change (Lyon et al., 2014). Forecasts of climate events, which are based on the understanding of the physical mechanisms, could, therefore, be used for decision making and prevention, if the consequences on the environment and on society are investigated, as is proven by interdisciplinary research stemming from climate research on the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, and its impacts on society: a transformation is in progress, which will bring change in institutions and in the way they act (Zebiak et al., 2014 hand, end-users will have the opportunity to discuss about their mandate while learning about how the use of climate services could improve their work, thus end-users' information needs will be assessed; on the other, climate scientists will learn how to communicate their research outcomes, so that end-users will be able to integrate this information in their decision making system (McNie, 2013).Two aspects need to be taken into account: (1) improving models, e.g. increasing predictive skill and reducing uncertainty, and (2) understanding end-users' needs, which could drive climate research. Within the climate research community there is discussion on how to improve knowledge produced, this could improve the application and dissemination of existing predictions, and bring new prediction methodology in operation (Graham et al., 2011). In this respect, an important coordinating role and guidance for the development and provision of climate services has been played by several sovranational initiatives and networks, such as (among others) the UN-led Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), the IRI-led Climate Services Partnership (CSP), the European Climate Services Partnership (ECSP), the European Climate Observations, Modelling and Services -2 (ECOMS2), and the EU JPI-Climate.The...

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Participatory processes and climate forecast use: Socio-cultural context, discussion, and consensus

Cited by 59 publications

References 52 publications

Understanding gender dimensions of agriculture and climate change in smallholder farming communities

Understanding gender dimensions of agriculture and climate change in smallholder farming communities

Five Approaches to Social Sustainability and an Integrated Way Forward

Sharing Skills and Needs between Providers and Users of Climate Information to Create Climate Services: Lessons from the Northern Adriatic Case Study

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