Visualisation techniques to support public interpretation of future climate change and land-use choices: a case study from N-E Scotland

Wang, Chen; Miller, David; Brown, Iain; Jiang, Yang; Castellazzi, Marie

doi:10.1080/17538947.2015.1111949

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“…This topic is therefore an example of an issue placed on the UKCCRA2017 'watch list'. For example, research methodologies are now investigating the role of landscape features in climate change risk perception [169] or using scenario visualization techniques to elicit diverse responses on landscape change [170,171].…”

Section: (J) Risks To Amenity Heritage and Charactermentioning

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Assessing climate change risks to the natural environment to facilitate cross-sectoral adaptation policy

Brown

2018

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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Climate change policy requires prioritization of adaptation actions across many diverse issues. The policy agenda for the natural environment includes not only biodiversity, soils and water, but also associated human benefits through agriculture, forestry, water resources, hazard alleviation, climate regulation and amenity value. To address this broad agenda, the use of comparative risk assessment is investigated with reference to statutory requirements of the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment. Risk prioritization was defined by current adaptation progress relative to risk magnitude and implementation lead times. Use of an ecosystem approach provided insights into risk interactions, but challenges remain in quantifying ecosystem services. For all risks, indirect effects and potential systemic risks were identified from land-use change, responding to both climate and socio-economic drivers, and causing increased competition for land and water resources. Adaptation strategies enhancing natural ecosystem resilience can buffer risks and sustain ecosystem services but require improved cross-sectoral coordination and recognition of dynamic change. To facilitate this, risk assessments need to be reflexive and explicitly assess decision outcomes contingent on their riskiness and adaptability, including required levels of human intervention, influence of uncertainty and ethical dimensions. More national-scale information is also required on adaptation occurring in practice and its efficacy in moderating risks.This article is part of the theme issue 'Advances in risk assessment for climate change adaptation policy'.

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Section: (J) Risks To Amenity Heritage and Charactermentioning

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Assessing climate change risks to the natural environment to facilitate cross-sectoral adaptation policy

Brown

2018

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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“…Instead of bringing all experts together in a workshop, as previous studies do, our approach grouped experts in separated sectoral workshops, which makes it easier to develop a consistent set of Bsectoral^visions. Many of the participatory scenario exercises found in literature (Volkery et al 2008;Brown and Castellazzi 2014;Wang et al 2016) have used a range of methods and visualisation tools separately, but we combined and adapted them in an iterative process to get a greater co-creation and richness in the visions. The use of electronic canvas as visualisation tool facilitates the linking of qualitative stakeholder statements with quantitative model simulations and at the same time enhances the engagement and understanding of the modelling outcomes by stakeholders.…”

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“…Most of the studies are at local or regional scales and do not cover all land-use sectors (Faysse et al 2014;Wang et al 2016). Compared to these previous exercises, our approach covers all Europe and is cross-sectoral.…”

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“…Using participatory approaches involving sufficiently large groups of stakeholders, and adequate time for the elicitation process and for review and outreach, can enhance credibility, legitimacy and saliency and thereby promote their uptake in land-use policies and strategies (Swart et al 2004). In addition, innovative participatory techniques and computer-based tools can help to stimulate the imagination and enhance stakeholders' engagement (Appleton and Lovett 2003;Vervoort et al 2010;Wang et al 2016). Imagining a distant future is a difficult exercise for human beings (Bryant and Veroff 2007), because the brain recombines past experience information to imagine the future (Grant and Suddendorf 2005).…”

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Sketching sustainable land use in Europe by 2040: a multi-stakeholder participatory approach to elicit cross-sectoral visions

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The continuously growing global demands on a finite land resource will require better strategic policies and management of trade-offs to avoid conflicts between different land-use sectors. Visions of the future can support strategic planning by stimulating dialogue, building a consensus on shared priorities and providing long-term targets. We present a novel approach to elicit stakeholder visions of future desired land use, which was applied with a broad range of experts to develop cross-sectoral visions in Europe. The approach is based on (i) combination of software tools and facilitation techniques to stimulate engagement and creativity; (ii) methodical selection of stakeholders; (iii) use of land attributes to deconstruct the multifaceted sectoral visions into land-use changes that can be clustered into few cross-sectoral visions, and (iv) a rigorous iterative process. Three cross-sectoral visions of sustainable land use in Europe in 2040 emerged from applying the approach in participatory workshops involving experts in nature conservation, recreation, agriculture, forestry, settlements, energy, and water. The three visions-Best Land in Europe, Regional Connected and Local Multifunctional-shared a wish to achieve a land use that is sustainable through multifunctionality, resource use efficiency, controlled urban growth, rural renewal and widespread nature. However, they differ on the scale at which land services are provided-EU-wide, regional or local-reflecting the land-sparing versus land-sharing debate. We discuss the usefulness of the approach, as well as the challenges posed and solutions offered by the visions to support strategic land-use planning.

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“…permeable surfaces and associated greenspace) but these do not facilitate an interactive or immersive engagement with the proposed design features. In other contexts, innovative use of computer-based visualization and Virtual Reality (VR) technology has been shown to encourage greater engagement and awareness of landscape design challenges amongst diverse participants [11] [12], further highlighting our rationale for investigating its application in meeting the design challenges of sponge cities. Most notably, the additional realism of a 3D application may also help avoid misunderstandings that occur between the design teams and stakeholders when using 2D illustrations that typically leads to the need for re-design and reworking during the design phase.…”

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Flood risk management in sponge cities: The role of integrated simulation and 3D visualization

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Miller

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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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The Sponge City concept has been promoted as a major programme of work to address increasing flood risk in urban areas, in combination with wider benefits for water resources and urban renewal. However, realization of the concept requires collaborative engagement with a wide range of professionals and with affected communities. Visualization can play an important role in this process. In this research, a sponge city flood simulation and forecasting system has been built which combines hydrological data, topographic data, GIS data and hydrodynamic models in real-time and interactive display in a three-dimensional environment. Actual and design flood events in a pilot sponge city have been simulated. The validation results show that the simulated urban water accumulation process is consistent with the actual monitoring data. Use of advanced virtual reality technology can enable simulations to be placed in the wider design context including enhanced awareness of multiple functions of urban ecosystems. This procedure can therefore reduce the information communication gap and encourage innovation regarding low impact development required for sponge city construction.

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Visualisation techniques to support public interpretation of future climate change and land-use choices: a case study from N-E Scotland

Cited by 15 publications

References 51 publications

Assessing climate change risks to the natural environment to facilitate cross-sectoral adaptation policy

Assessing climate change risks to the natural environment to facilitate cross-sectoral adaptation policy

Sketching sustainable land use in Europe by 2040: a multi-stakeholder participatory approach to elicit cross-sectoral visions

Flood risk management in sponge cities: The role of integrated simulation and 3D visualization

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