understanding who to involve in adaptation planning - kate lonsdale
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Understanding who to involve in adaptation planning
Roles, Responsibilities and Skills for the core team
Some things to bear in mind when undertaking adaptation planning…
1. We need to consider the whole system e.g. a water catchment
Source: Jenny Bellamy for the CADWAGO Project
Changes in run-off, erosion, land slides
Inundation and
sea level rise Groundwater depletion
Flooding risks
Industrial &and household waste management
Source: Jenny Bellamy for the CADWAGO Project
Food security and irrigation
Water management
policy
Marine protection area
Fish Habitat Code of Practice
Works in tidally affected areas
Ecosystems services
Marine Plants
Recreation areas and aesthetics
Renewable energy policy
Wetlands & Biodiversity
Human wellbeing and livelihoods
1. We need to consider the whole system e.g. a water catchment
In what ways might climate change affect Inner Mongolia?
urban infrastructure?
agricultural pests and diseases?
biodiversity and water resources?
herding and grassland
management?
Transport systems?
human health?
Livelihood Risks and Adaptation of Grasslands in Inner Mongolia
2. There are many different perspectives about what the problems are and how the situation might be solved. We have to find ways to understand and accommodate other’s perspectives despite limited resources if our risk based adaptation plans are to be implementable and effective..
3. Our understanding of the future climate, as well as future social, ecological and economic systems will always be incomplete.
We make better informed decisions when we accept this include uncertainty about how the things we are concerned about will be affected.
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‘we simply can’t afford not to take the views and needs of policy-makers and
industry fully into account’
Collaborative Research for a Changing Climate, Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing Climate Programme
Policy makers
Policy Makers (PM), Core team/experts
PM, core team/Experts
Policy Makers (PM), Core team/Experts
PM
Policy Makers (PM), Core team/experts
Greater investment in collaboration Informational functions: creating, collecting, codifying, storing, communicating ideas and info over time and between different groups to make it accessible and useful
Relational functions: improving relationships between various actors and around an the issue to enable co-production of knowledge and genuine dialogue and taking into account power dynamics between those involved
Systems functions: understanding and working around the systems of concern building connections between different groups to create change and to ensure that there is a good institutional environment for sustainable innovation
project manager
Monitoring and Evaluation
facilitator
relationship builder
data and knowledge gatherer
Communicator – science to policy
Areas to consider
Photo credit BBC Wales Photo credit Yorkshire Post
Some of the skills needed by an adaptation plan development team