TY - JOUR
T1 - Future visioning of local climate change
T2 - A framework for community engagement and planning with scenarios and visualisation
AU - Sheppard, Stephen R J
AU - Shaw, Alison
AU - Flanders, David
AU - Burch, Sarah
AU - Wiek, Arnim
AU - Carmichael, Jeff
AU - Robinson, John
AU - Cohen, Stewart
N1 - Funding Information:
The research contributing to this paper has been supported by the GEOIDE Network Centre of Excellence, NSERC, Natural Resources Canada, Environment Canada, BC, Ministry of Environment, Metro Vancouver, Corporation of Delta, District of North Vancouver, and many other stakeholders. Thanks go to CALP staff and students for their contribution to the ideas and examples presented here. Special thanks go to Adelle Airey, CALP Administrative Assistant, for her help in editing and formatting.
Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - There is an urgent need for meaningful information and effective public processes at the local level to build awareness, capacity, and agency on climate change, and support planning and decision-making. This paper describes a conceptual framework to meet these requirements by generating alternative, coherent, holistic climate change scenarios and visualizations at the local scale, in collaboration with local stakeholders and scientists. The framework provides a template for a process to integrate emission scenarios with both mitigation and adaptation strategies, and to link local manifestations of impacts and responses with global climate change scenarios. The article outlines the empirical application of this framework in the Local Climate Change Visioning Project in British Columbia, Canada. The project collaboratively localized, spatialized, and visualized possible climate change effects and community responses in the community's 'backyards'. The article concludes with lessons learned and suggested principles for future visioning efforts to engage communities in possible policy and behavioural choices.
AB - There is an urgent need for meaningful information and effective public processes at the local level to build awareness, capacity, and agency on climate change, and support planning and decision-making. This paper describes a conceptual framework to meet these requirements by generating alternative, coherent, holistic climate change scenarios and visualizations at the local scale, in collaboration with local stakeholders and scientists. The framework provides a template for a process to integrate emission scenarios with both mitigation and adaptation strategies, and to link local manifestations of impacts and responses with global climate change scenarios. The article outlines the empirical application of this framework in the Local Climate Change Visioning Project in British Columbia, Canada. The project collaboratively localized, spatialized, and visualized possible climate change effects and community responses in the community's 'backyards'. The article concludes with lessons learned and suggested principles for future visioning efforts to engage communities in possible policy and behavioural choices.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.futures.2011.01.009
DO - 10.1016/j.futures.2011.01.009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79953162332
SN - 0016-3287
VL - 43
SP - 400
EP - 412
JO - Futures
JF - Futures
IS - 4
ER -