ABSTRACT

The meaningful engagement of community-based actors in climate change adaptation planning is crucial for effective plans, but achieving it is an ongoing challenge, even with participatory methods. In this paper we explore very different approach, using shared-values crystallization as a pre-process to standard vulnerability risk assessments (VRAs), which recently reported significant impacts on plans produced. We posit this could be due to learning via changed local perceptions of roles, and we use multiple-case study work with five Village Development Committees (VDCs) in North East District, Botswana, and examine VRA outputs, and pre- and post-VRA interview transcripts, for evidence. Findings indicate that VDC members who took part in the shared-values pre-process significantly clarified and prioritized their general roles, and subsequently engaged more deeply in the planning process, taking more responsibility and ownership for the final adaptation plans. They related climate risks to their local lived-realities better, producing quality action plans, funding innovations and mainstreaming of adaptation into wider local plans, alongside an eagerness to present ideas to higher-governance levels. These findings suggest the shared-values pre-process could be immediately valuable for multilevel adaptation planning practices, and that the concept of role clarification deserves more specific consideration in academic studies on participation.

摘要

以社区为基础的行动者有意义地参与气候变化适应规划对于有效的计划至关重要，但实现它是一项持续的挑战，即使采用参与式方法也是如此。在本文中，我们探索了非常不同的方法，使用共享价值结晶作为标准漏洞风险评估 (VRA) 的预处理，该评估最近报告了对制定的计划的重大影响。我们认为这可能是由于通过改变当地对角色的看法来学习，我们与博茨瓦纳东北区的五个村庄发展委员会 (VDC) 一起使用多个案例研究工作，并检查 VRA 输出，以及 VRA 前后面试成绩单，作为证据。调查结果表明，参与共享价值观预处理的 VDC 成员显着澄清并优先考虑了他们的一般角色，随后更深入地参与规划过程，为最终的适应计划承担更多责任和所有权。他们更好地将气候风险与当地生活现实联系起来，制定了高质量的行动计划，资助创新并将适应纳入更广泛的当地计划，同时渴望向更高的治理水平提出想法。这些发现表明，共享价值观的预处理对于多层次的适应规划实践可能立即有价值，并且角色澄清的概念值得在有关参与的学术研究中进行更具体的考虑。资助创新和将适应纳入更广泛的地方计划的主流，同时渴望向更高的治理水平提出想法。这些发现表明，共享价值观的预处理对于多层次的适应规划实践可能立即有价值，并且角色澄清的概念值得在有关参与的学术研究中进行更具体的考虑。资助创新和将适应纳入更广泛的地方计划的主流，同时渴望向更高的治理水平提出想法。这些发现表明，共享价值观的预处理对于多层次的适应规划实践可能立即有价值，并且角色澄清的概念值得在有关参与的学术研究中进行更具体的考虑。