Online participation in climate change adaptation: A case study of agricultural adaptation measures in Northern Italy

Geographic Information and Communication Technologies for Supporting Smallholder Agriculture and Climate Resilience

“…Communication technologies for enhancing knowledge access are often most beneficial for younger and more highly educated individuals [49]. Conversely, Bojovic et al [84] demonstrated a weakening of digital divides for online participation in climate adaptation with groups that are typically excluded appearing as active participants (e.g., older or uneducated individuals). The contrasting ability of geographic information and ICTs to disproportionately benefit those who have access could be exacerbated if existing socioeconomic divisions within and across communities become greater [85].…”

Evaluating media framing and public reactions in the context of a water reuse proposal

“…For example, Regan et al (2014) thematically explored dietary heath risk perceptions through online comments on two online media articles. Correspondingly, there is increased interest in studying online interactions across a range of water resource management domains, including through online participation tools (Bojovic, Bonzanigo, Giupponi, & Maziotis, 2015;White, Kingston, & Barker, 2010), social media (Tang, Zhang, & Xu, 2015) and online comments (Russell-Verma, Smith, & Jeffrey, 2015). A recent exploration of online comments on an aquifer recharge proposal (river water) in Finland concluded that debate on the subject was prone to polarization and lacked attention to benefits and risks (Lyytimaki & Assmuth, 2014).…”

An online platform supporting the analysis of water adaptation measures in the Alps

“…Most of these problems resulted from the use of old web browsers incompatible with the state-of-the-art web techniques applied in the platform. Drawing also from our previous experience with similar tools (see Bojovic et al 2015), we concluded that the low response-rate could be a result of the trade-off made between the complexity and comprehensiveness of a system and the simplicity of its use, all this in view of the lack of motivation on the part of potential users. The exercise that focused on the particular case study in Val Brenta had a higher responserate within its narrow group of motivated and active local stakeholders.…”