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Participatory futures methods: towards adaptability and resilience in climate‐vulnerable communities
Author(s) -
Gidley Jennifer M.,
Fien John,
Smith JodiAnne,
Thomsen Dana C.,
Smith Timothy F.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
environmental policy and governance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.987
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1756-9338
pISSN - 1756-932X
DOI - 10.1002/eet.524
Subject(s) - futures contract , climate change , citizen journalism , adaptability , context (archaeology) , psychological resilience , sociology , resilience (materials science) , community resilience , environmental resource management , futures studies , environmental planning , political science , computer science , geography , environmental science , business , psychology , economics , social psychology , ecology , management , artificial intelligence , law , archaeology , biology , operating system , thermodynamics , physics , finance , redundancy (engineering)
This paper points to the value of broadening the palette of approaches to climate change futures beyond the dominant methods of empiricist predictive trends and expert scenarios. The first half of the paper contextualizes the climate change discourse within the field of futures studies and explores potential points of dialogue between a number of futures approaches and the most prominent of the climate protection work. The second half of the paper introduces a case study of community based participatory approaches involving community scenario writing and community visioning, which enacts a collaborative engagement between futures researchers and climate‐vulnerable communities. However, any participatory futures method chosen to facilitate climate change adaptation must be context aware in both its design and implementation if it is to facilitate adaptability and resilience in climate‐vulnerable communities. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.