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Innovative tools to involve stakeholders in collaborative
efforts to share and discuss uncertainties in DDR and CCA
Experiences and lessons learnt
Lydia Pedoth, Marco Pregnolato & Stefan Schneiderbauer
European Academy Bolzano- EURAC, Italy
In collaboration with SEI Oxford, SEI York
Environment Agency Austria and CIPRA International
Chambery, 27th May 2015
• Co-production of knowledge between scientists and
stakeholders
• Necessity to deal with and act under uncertainty
• Communication of research results to the public
• Deal with complexity and interlinkages within multiple systems
• Knowledge is spread among science and practice
• Different disciplines, backgrounds and actors
• Aim to influence policies and support the decision making process
• Need to foster behavioral change and action on the ground
Challenges
• Inter-and transdisciplinary approaches
• From unidirectional to bidirectional knowledge flows
• Innovative participatory approaches to involve and engage with stakeholders
• Common process for co-production of knowledge
• Shared and trusted knowledge
• Tools and methods for communicating science to the public
• Approaches and tools for “translating” and communicating uncertainty
What do we need?
3 European cooperation projects
• FP7 Project Know4DRR- knowledge for disaster risk reduction
• FP7 Project emBRACE- community resilience to natural hazards
• Alpine Space Project C3 Alps- Capitalizing Climate Change
Knowledge for Adaptation in the Alpine Space
Experiences and lessons learnt
Knowledge mapping
Interviews mapping interactions and communication flows
between risk management actors after a landslide event
Experiences and lessons learnt
• Visualisation and structuring of knowledge
• Shared interactive process between interviewer and interviewee
• Immediate and tangible output
• Look at the created map triggers critical reflection and discussion
about how the network deals with uncertainty
• Different views of the same network
• Method applicable for stakeholders working at different scales
and with different background and responsibilities
Gaming approach
Workshop with scientist and stakeholders
Flood scenario game: How to deal with uncertainty in decision making?
Experiences and lessons learnt
• The gaming approach enabled participants to put themselves in
someone else's situation
• Game created a context free of rules and settings linked to
participants institutional affiliations and roles
• Despite the created game context the approach revealed mechanisms
and situations linked to decision making similar to real situations
• Game helped to grasp the concept of uncertainty
• Discussion about experiences of participants during the gaming
exercise as important part for knowledge creation
Innovative communication tools
Calendar: Climate change adaptation day by day
Experiences and lessons learnt
• Link research results and climate change adaptation to every day life
• Work with key messages and commonly used terminology
• Simple does not mean banal
• Use of graphics for transmitting knowledge
• Importance of collaboration between researcher and graphic designers and
communication experts
• Local language for communication with the public
Conclusions
• Huge range of participatory approaches
• No one size fits it all solution- choice according to context and
type of stakeholders
• Willingness and openness for sharing knowledge
• Acknowledgement and appreciation of different kind of expertise
• Challenges due to different objectives, mindsets and terminology
but also source for innovative and tangible knowledge that can
lead to concrete actions
