Abstract
Climate change adaptation is challenging in community planning because of the conflict between planners’ scientific knowledge and residents’ local knowledge. Focusing on the Bansong Pilbongoreum community in South Korea, we suggest a community-based adaption plan that uses local knowledge and builds consensus between local residents and planners by identifying problems and planning objectives. We applied this plan to our case study, using in-depth interviews, a community workshop, local knowledge, and scientific climate adaptation measures to identify the community’s problems and develop a plan. Planners and residents must communicate so that planners can incorporate local knowledge into effective planning objectives for community adaptation.
Highlights
Many studies have emphasized the need to incorporate local knowledge in planning and decision-making processes
There are several specific definitions for local knowledge within a diverse range of fields, but essentially, this type of knowledge is based on local context or practices and possesses commonalities that are collectively embedded in experiential information [20,21,22,23,24]
Using Korea’s Bansong Pilbongoreum community as a research subject, we recommended a series of processes that planners can use to gather local knowledge and build a consensus while developing community climate change adaptations
Summary
Many studies have emphasized the need to incorporate local knowledge in planning and decision-making processes. Effective community collaboration requires consideration of local knowledge, when identifying and scoping out environmental issues. Local knowledge is useful in the “joint fact-finding” approach, because it is derived from individuals who have closely encountered environmental issues in their community [4,5,6,7]. This approach dictates that, in order to solve a problem, one must establish an investigative scope and collect information based on that scope [8,9,10]. Local knowledge is beneficial for developing policy measures that will impact communities [11]
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