scholarly journals Beyond Planning Tools: Experiential Learning in Climate Adaptation Planning and Practices

Climate ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Kristen M. Schmitt ◽  
Todd A. Ontl ◽  
Stephen D. Handler ◽  
Maria K. Janowiak ◽  
Leslie A. Brandt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Adaptation Planning ◽  
Work Time ◽  
Training Approach ◽  
Climate Change Response ◽  
Planning Tools ◽  
Change Response

In the past decade, several dedicated tools have been developed to help natural resources professionals integrate climate science into their planning and implementation; however, it is unclear how often these tools lead to on-the-ground climate adaptation. Here, we describe a training approach that we developed to help managers effectively plan to execute intentional, climate-informed actions. This training approach was developed through the Climate Change Response Framework (CCRF) and uses active and focused work time and peer-to-peer interaction to overcome observed barriers to using adaptation planning tools. We evaluate the effectiveness of this approach by examining participant evaluations and outlining the progress of natural resources projects that have participated in our trainings. We outline a case study that describes how this training approach can lead to place and context-based climate-informed action. Finally, we describe best practices based on our experience for engaging natural resources professionals and helping them increase their comfort with climate-informed planning.

Institutional perceptions, adaptive capacity and climate change response in a post-conflict country: a case study from Central African Republic

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Carolyn Peach Brown ◽  
Barry Smit ◽  
Olufunso A. Somorin ◽  
Denis J. Sonwa ◽  
Félix Ngana
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Climate Change Response ◽  
Change Response

scholarly journals Turning back the rising sea: Theory performativity in the shift from climate science to popular authority

2021 ◽  
pp. 017084062110245
Author(s):  
Vanessa Bowden ◽  
Jean-Pascal Gond ◽  
Daniel Nyberg ◽  
Christopher Wright
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Property Prices ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
The Relationship

Action on climate change continues to be hampered by vested interests seeding doubt about science and the need to reduce carbon emissions. Using a qualitative case study of local climate adaptation to sea level rise, we show how climate change science is translated into a self-referential theory focussed on property prices. Our analysis develops two mechanisms – enablement and theorization – to explain the relationship between theory performativity and power within a process of translation. This contributes to i) the performativity debate by showing how the constitution of power relations shapes theory performativity; ii) theories of power, by tracing the ways in which certain actors are able to enrol others and impact the authority of particular theories, and; iii) processes of translation by developing mechanisms for following the ways in which power and theory performativity interact. We conclude by arguing that a performative understanding of how power shapes beliefs is central to combat the failure to address climate change.

Bridging climate science to adaptation action in data sparse Tanzania

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
EVAN H. GIRVETZ ◽  
ELIZABETH GRAY ◽  
TIMOTHY H. TEAR ◽  
MATTHEW A. BROWN
Keyword(s):  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Adaptation Planning ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Climate Projections ◽  
Current Conservation ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
Adaptation Action ◽  
Climate Adaptation Planning

SUMMARYIn the face of an already changing climate, conservation practitioners and local communities face the major challenge of how to plan for a future climate. In data-sparse areas of the world, where action is often most needed, the daunting scope of the problem can lead to inaction. This paper shows that climate adaptation planning can be accomplished successfully with publicly and globally available data by linking science and stakeholders through a facilitated process. Working with local stakeholders in the western Tanzanian Greater Mahale and Greater Gombe Ecosystems, future climate projections produced using Climate Wizard and analyses of literature provided an understanding of the climate vulnerabilities of local ecosystems and human livelihoods. Facilitated workshops enabled local stakeholders to use this information to develop conceptual models and hypotheses of change for these systems, and to identify possible modifications to conservation plans. Here, climate change planning required the modification of most current conservation strategies, developing some new strategies and abandoning others. The paper indicates that climate adaptation planning is achievable even in data-sparse rural and developing areas, but requires appropriate scientific analyses, engaged stakeholders and a facilitated process.

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