Raising awareness about climate change in Pacific communities

McNamara, Karen E.

doi:10.1080/13504622.2013.769046

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“…These lessons are fourfold. The first lesson is concerned with the need to provide locally and culturally appropriate and effective community awareness and education (see also McNamara, ). The second lesson related to the need to actively integrate local environmental knowledge throughout the entire project cycle, from inception to monitoring.…”

Section: Discussion: Four Lessons For Community‐based Climate‐change mentioning

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Taking stock of community‐based climate‐change adaptation projects in the Pacific

McNamara

2013

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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A number of international donors have in recent years shown great interest in implementing community-based projects related to adaptation to climate change climate-in the Pacific. This interest has seen a flurry of activity in Pacific communities to develop and implement on-ground activities in the hope of enhancing adaptive capacity. This article draws on the results of a questionnaire completed by 31 agencies that have implemented climate-change adaptation projects in various communities throughout the Pacific region. The impetus for this research is to better understand the types of projects that have been implemented, and assess their levels of success in safeguarding communities in the face of climate change. While there has been limited overall progress made across the region to address climate change impacts at the community level, four broad-brush lessons that relate to the process of project development and implementation are drawn from this research. These lessons include the need to: provide locally and culturally appropriate community awareness and education; integrate local environmental knowledge throughout the project cycle; ensure that community ownership is involved in all project stages; and enhance sustainable livelihood resources more broadly.

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Section: Discussion: Four Lessons For Community‐based Climate‐change mentioning

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Taking stock of community‐based climate‐change adaptation projects in the Pacific

McNamara

2013

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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“…Similar challenges concerning the use of knowledge in subnational policymaking have been the focus of study in other areas of South America and the European Union (Lehmann, Brenck, Gebhardt, Schaller, & Süßbauer, ; Orderud & Winsvold, ), Pacific countries (McNamara, ), and Canada (Picketts, Curry, & Rapaport, ). Thus, looking at the literature on the use of RBK in municipal climate change adaptation and mitigation to date, the majority of studies have been conducted outside of the United States.…”

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U.S. Local Governments and Climate Change: Examining the Acquisition and Use of Research‐Based Knowledge in Policy Development

Goggin¹,

Gerber²,

Larson³

2014

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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Cumulative research has demonstrated both the reality and potential impacts of global climate change. In this paper, we focus on the nature of climate-related policy development at a subnational level by considering actions undertaken by municipal governments in the United States. Specifically, our research objective is to provide an initial descriptive assessment of how local governments utilize what we term research-based knowledge (RBK) to inform their planning and action strategies around climate change mitigation and adaptation. Doing so is important because local governments in the United States represent a key source of policy innovation on climate change issues and because there is relatively little existing research on exactly how RBK might be utilized in this domain. Our comparative case descriptions from four locations suggest that city officials use RBK in both strategic and political manners. That is, while using existing information and policy networks and generally relying on outside experts for rational comprehensive evaluation, climate-related RBK often both justifies the existing position of local officials (strategic use) and legitimizes previous policy choices (political use). The implications of this initial assessment can assist in testing future theoretic arguments on the exact nature of RBK acquisition and use surrounding climate change policymaking.KEY WORDS: disaster planning and preparedness, hazard management and mitigation, risk policy and management 1944-4079 #

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“…The challenge that remains in the application of the climate risk concept by water professionals is the lack of political saliency and unclear demarcation of responsibility between actors (Boholm and Prutzer, 2017;McBean and Rodgers, 2010). Training water professionals from governmental bodies, as we did with SDE, can raise awareness about the role of governmen-tal bodies in climate change adaptation and, consequently, increase the demand for water professionals equipped with knowledge on climate risk (McNamara, 2013;Pruneau et al, 2013;McBean and Rodgers, 2010;George et al, 2016).…”

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Teaching climate risk for water planning: a pilot training for tertiary students and practitioners in Brazil

Amorim

Chaffe

2021

Geosci. Commun.

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Abstract. Climate change is one of the major challenges of our society; thus educational resources on climate risk and adaptation are needed. In this case study, we present a short-duration face-to-face training for water professionals about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s climate risk framework. The training uses problem-based learning (PBL) pedagogy, and its suitability and benefits are evaluated with qualitative observation and self-assessment of knowledge of tertiary students and practitioners from five independent groups in Brazil. We find that the application of a mapping exercise using the IPCC's climate risk framework supports learning about climate risk, as well as data interpretation, creativity, teamwork, communication, and critical thinking by the participants. This work merges the IPCC's climate risk framework and PBL for climate risk training. The proposed training enables the teaching of climate risk in stand-alone courses and professional development training in areas where climate is an embedded component.

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Raising awareness about climate change in Pacific communities

Cited by 17 publications

References 14 publications

Taking stock of community‐based climate‐change adaptation projects in the Pacific

Taking stock of community‐based climate‐change adaptation projects in the Pacific

U.S. Local Governments and Climate Change: Examining the Acquisition and Use of Research‐Based Knowledge in Policy Development

Teaching climate risk for water planning: a pilot training for tertiary students and practitioners in Brazil

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