Visualization for supporting individual climate change adaptation planning: Assessment of a web-based tool

Glaas, Erik; Ballantyne, Anne Gammelgaard; Neset, Tina-Simone; Linnér, Björn‐Ola

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.09.018

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“…those that are already committed and work actively with the issue. These statements are in line with previous studies on climate communication (Ballantyne et al 2017) and the development of interactive tools (Glaas et al 2017;Neset et al 2016;Bohman et al 2015), which stress the importance of clear visual outputs for awareness raising and for creating engagement and involvement. In this context, maps as a medium for presenting information (related to practical implementation) were discussed in more detail.…”

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“…Although the workshop provides the primary reference for the argument presented here, other projects and experiences have largely contributed to our understanding of these issues. This includes stakeholder interactions held in other sub-studies within the NORD-STAR project, such as interviews with municipal officials in Trondheim to discuss adaptation and integrated vulnerability using the visualization tools VisAdapt™ and ViewExposed™(Bohman et al 2015), and with homeowners in Aarhus, Denmark, Norrköping, Sweden and Trondheim, Norway, to discuss climate risks and adaptation alternatives using the VisAdapt™ tool(Glaas et al 2017;Neset et al 2016). Moreover, interviews have been held with municipal officials in Swedish cities to discuss co-production of climate vulnerability assessments(Glaas and Jonsson 2014), and adaptation measures in the cities of Copenhagen and Helsinki(Klein et al 2017).…”

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On the call for issue advocates, or what it takes to make adaptation research useful

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This essay discusses the concept of usefulness of research for climate change adaptation. Based on prior research and stakeholder interactions with policymakers and practitioners in the Nordic countries, we contend that critical issues related to the usefulness of adaptation research seem less associated with content (i.e. research outputs), but rather centre around the efforts made to design and communicate research, that is, to put research at the service of society and make the case for adaptation on the political agenda. This, we argue, to some extent mirrors the situation and political context in the Nordic countries, where adaptation in many locations still is an issue in its infancy, not firmly established on the political agendas, and where working procedures are not yet institutionally settled. In this context, science is considered and sometimes used as a discursive tool to make the case for adaptation. Based on the calls for research that inspires, raises hope and helps to raise the issue of adaptation on the political agendas, we elaborate the role of honest issue advocates for researchers in the field of adaptation science.

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“…Third, after the test sessions, the participants reconvened in the focus group setting to discuss their perceptions of VisAdapt TM . The present analysis treats the test sessions, while analyses treating the focus group discussions are presented in Glaas et al (2017) and Glaas et al (2015a).…”

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Localizing Climate Change: Nordic Homeowners’ Interpretations of Visual Representations for Climate Adaptation

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Environmental Communication

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In recent years, effort has been put into developing various forms of climate visualization to create opportunities for people to explore and learn about local climate change risks and adaptation options. However, how target audiences make sense of such climate visualization has rarely been studied from a communication perspective. This paper analyzes how Nordic homeowners made sense of a specific climate visualization tool, the VisAdapt™ tool. Involving 35 homeowners from three cities in 15 group test sessions, this study analyzes the interpretive strategies participants applied to make sense of and assess the relevance of the visualized data. The study demonstrates that participants employed a set of interpretive strategies relating to personal experience and well-known places to make sense of the information presented, and that critical negotiation of content played an important role in how participants interpreted the content.

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“…Following an established approach for evaluating climate-related visualization tools (Glaas et al 2017), discussions with municipal stakeholders were arranged. Individual interviews were held with officials mandated to coordinate municipal climate action in two steps: first to validate and complement the data collections as above, and secondly to evaluate the UCT representations.…”

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Developing transformative capacity through systematic assessments and visualization of urban climate transitions

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Ambio

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Transforming cities into low-carbon, resilient, and sustainable places will require action encompassing most segments of society. However, local governments struggle to overview and assess all ongoing climate activities in a city, constraining well-informed decision-making and transformative capacity. This paper proposes and tests an assessment framework developed to visualize the implementation of urban climate transition (UCT). Integrating key transition activities and process progression, the framework was applied to three Swedish cities. Climate coordinators and municipal councillors evaluated the visual UCT representations. Results indicate that their understanding of UCT actions and implementation bottlenecks became clearer, making transition more governable. To facilitate UCT, involving external actors and shifting priorities between areas were found to be key. The visual UCT representations improved system awareness and memory, building local transformative capacity. The study recommends systematic assessment and visualization of process progression as a promising method to facilitate UCT governance, but potentially also broader sustainability transitions. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s13280-018-1109-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Visualization for supporting individual climate change adaptation planning: Assessment of a web-based tool

Cited by 40 publications

References 52 publications

On the call for issue advocates, or what it takes to make adaptation research useful

On the call for issue advocates, or what it takes to make adaptation research useful

Localizing Climate Change: Nordic Homeowners’ Interpretations of Visual Representations for Climate Adaptation

Developing transformative capacity through systematic assessments and visualization of urban climate transitions

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