Cities face increasing risks due to climate change, and many cities are actively working towards increasing their climate resilience. Climate change-induced risks and interventions to reduce these risks do not only impact urban risk management systems and infrastructures, but also people’s daily lives. In order to build public support for climate adaptation and resilience-building and stimulate collaboration between authorities and citizens, it is necessary that adaptation and resilience-building are locally meaningful. Thus, interventions should be rooted in citizens’ concerns and aspirations for their city. Urban policymakers and researchers have started the search for better citizen participation in adaptation. However, tools to connect the relatively strategic and long-term notions of adaptation to a gradually changing climate held by planners and scientists with how citizens experience today’s climate and weather remain elusive. This paper investigates the use of ‘narratives of change’ as an approach to elicit perceptions of past, present and future weather, water, and climate, and how these relate to citizens’ desired futures. We tested this by eliciting and comparing narratives of change from authorities and from citizens in the Dutch city of Dordrecht. Our analysis of the process showed that historical events, embedded in local memory and identity, have a surprisingly strong impact on how climate change is perceived and acted upon today. This contributes to an awareness and sense of urgency of some climate risks (e.g. flood risks). However, it also shifts attention away from other risks (e.g. intensified heat stress). The analysis highlighted commonalities, like shared concerns about climate change and desires to collaborate, but also differences in how climate change, impacts, and action are conceptualized. There are possibilities for collaboration and mutual learning, as well as areas of potential disagreement and conflict. We conclude that narratives are a useful tool to better connect the governance of climate adaptation with peoples’ daily experience of climate risks and climate resilience, thereby potentially increasing public support for and participation in resilience-building.

由于气候变化，城市面临越来越大的风险，许多城市都在积极致力于提高其气候适应能力。气候变化引发的风险以及减少这些风险的干预措施不仅会影响城市风险管理系统和基础设施，还会影响人们的日常生活。为了获得公众对气候适应和复原力建设的支持并促进当局与公民之间的合作，适应和复原力建设对当地意义重大。因此，干预应植根于市民对其城市的关注和愿望。城市政策制定者和研究人员已开始寻求让公民更好地参与适应工作。然而，将相对战略性的长期适应概念与规划者和科学家所掌握的逐渐变化的气候联系在一起的工具，以及人们如何体验当今的气候和天气仍然难以捉摸。本文研究了“变化的叙事”作为一种方法来引起人们对过去，现在和将来的天气，水和气候的认识，以及它们与公民期望的未来之间的关系。我们通过引出并比较荷兰多德雷赫特市当局和公民的变化叙事来检验这一点。我们对这一过程的分析表明，嵌入当地记忆和身份的历史事件对当今人们对气候变化的认识和应对方式具有令人惊讶的强大影响。这有助于提高对某些气候风险（例如洪水风险）的认识和紧迫感。然而，这也将注意力从其他风险（例如加剧的热应激）转移开来。分析强调了共同点，例如对气候变化的共同关注和合作愿望，还对气候变化，影响和行动在概念上的区别提出了不同。合作和相互学习以及潜在的分歧和冲突领域都有可能。我们得出的结论是，叙事是将气候适应治理与人们日常的气候风险和气候适应能力的日常经验更好地联系在一起的有用工具，从而有可能增加公众对适应能力建设的支持和参与。但是在概念，气候变化，影响和行动方面也存在差异。合作和相互学习以及潜在的分歧和冲突领域都有可能。我们得出的结论是，叙事是将气候适应治理与人们日常的气候风险和气候适应能力的日常经验更好地联系在一起的有用工具，从而有可能增加公众对适应能力建设的支持和参与。但是在概念，气候变化，影响和行动方面也存在差异。合作和相互学习以及潜在的分歧和冲突领域都有可能。我们得出的结论是，叙事是将气候适应治理与人们日常的气候风险和气候适应能力的日常经验更好地联系在一起的有用工具，从而有可能增加公众对适应能力建设的支持和参与。