TY - JOUR
T1 - Making local futures tangible-Synthesizing, downscaling, and visualizing climate change scenarios for participatory capacity building
AU - Shaw, Alison
AU - Sheppard, Stephen
AU - Burch, Sarah
AU - Flanders, David
AU - Wiek, Arnim
AU - Carmichael, Jeff
AU - Robinson, John
AU - Cohen, Stewart
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to particularly thank Bill Taylor (Senior Climatologist, Environment Canada), Brent Burton (Senior Project Engineer, Policy and Planning Department, Metro Vancouver), Marcy Sangret (Senior Planner, Corporation of Delta), and Hugh Fraser (Deputy Director of Engineering, Corporation of Delta) for their expertise and in-kind support throughout this research project. We would like to acknowledge the work of contributing CALPies, Jon Laurenz, Jon Salter, Cam Campbell, and Adelle Airey and the international advisory team, Pam Berry at ECI and Susanne Moser at NCAR. Alison Shaw, Stephen Sheppard, Sarah Burch, and David Flanders acknowledge the funding and support of the GEOIDE NCE Strategic Investment Initiative (SII) 60, Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada, BC Ministry of Environment, BC Integrated Land Management Bureau, and Metro Vancouver, Delta staff and elected officials. In addition we would like to acknowledge the regional and local sea level rise and storm surge research of Phil Hill at NRCAN and Ben Kangasniemi at BC MOE. Arnim Wiek acknowledges the support of the Swiss NSF grant PA0011-115315. Alison Shaw and Arnim Wiek would like to thank Katja Brundiers for invaluable personal support.
PY - 2009/10
Y1 - 2009/10
N2 - Local in its causes and global in its impacts, climate change still poses an unresolved challenge for scientists, politicians, entrepreneurs, and citizens. Climate change research is largely global in focus, aims at enhanced understanding, and is driven by experts, all of which seem to be insufficient to anchor climate change action in regional and local contexts. We present results from a participatory scenario study conducted in collaboration with the municipality of Delta in SW British Columbia, Canada. This study applies a participatory capacity building approach for climate change action at the local level where the sources of emissions and the mechanisms of adaptation reside and where climate change is meaningful to decision-makers and stakeholders alike. The multi-scale scenario approach consists of synthesizing global climate change scenarios, downscaling them to the regional and local level, and finally visualizing alternative climate scenarios out to 2100 in 3D views of familiar, local places. We critically discuss the scenarios produced and the strengths and weaknesses of the approach applied.
AB - Local in its causes and global in its impacts, climate change still poses an unresolved challenge for scientists, politicians, entrepreneurs, and citizens. Climate change research is largely global in focus, aims at enhanced understanding, and is driven by experts, all of which seem to be insufficient to anchor climate change action in regional and local contexts. We present results from a participatory scenario study conducted in collaboration with the municipality of Delta in SW British Columbia, Canada. This study applies a participatory capacity building approach for climate change action at the local level where the sources of emissions and the mechanisms of adaptation reside and where climate change is meaningful to decision-makers and stakeholders alike. The multi-scale scenario approach consists of synthesizing global climate change scenarios, downscaling them to the regional and local level, and finally visualizing alternative climate scenarios out to 2100 in 3D views of familiar, local places. We critically discuss the scenarios produced and the strengths and weaknesses of the approach applied.
KW - Climate change communication
KW - Decision support
KW - Global to local downscaling
KW - Local climate change impacts and responses
KW - Participatory scenario development
KW - Visualization
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U2 - 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.04.002
DO - 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.04.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70349758115
SN - 0959-3780
VL - 19
SP - 447
EP - 463
JO - Global Environmental Change
JF - Global Environmental Change
IS - 4
ER -