Abstract
In light of the socio-ecological complexities associated with climate vulnerability, planning for community resilience will require participatory techniques to engage those most vulnerable. In particular, youth set to inherit the predicted impacts of climate change must be engaged with the processes that determine the future of their built environments. Drawing from existing literature on youth-based participatory planning and climate engagement, this paper presents an alternative process for engaging youth in climate resilience planning by employing digital technology as a tool for youth-based evaluations of existing built environments. Using the pilot project #OurChangingClimate as a case study, the authors propose a new model for engaging youth with an understanding of their communities and their resilience or vulnerability to climate change. The article details the use of social media and digital narratives as tools for participatory resilience planning and presents some of the preliminary content generated in four pilot youth workshops held from 2015–2017. Lastly, implications of youth-generated content on climate resilience planning are discussed.
Highlights
Climate change provides a good example of a complex systems problem for which place-specific case studies and participatory methodologies are apt. (Berkes & Jolly, 2001, p. 29)Climate change is a complex socio-ecological problem: vulnerability to its impacts are determined not merely by environmental conditions, and by a broad range of social conditions (Reid et al, 2009; Reid & Huq, 2007)
Using the pilot project #OurChangingClimate as a case study, this paper presents an alternative model for engaging youth with an understanding of their communities and its resilience or vulnerability to climate change
This paper will focus on content generated from four youth-based workshops held between 2015 and 2017: the 2-day pilot workshop in Oakland, California; a half-day workshop held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in collaboration with the National Organization for Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) as part of the Imagining America National Conference in October 2016; a 10-week workshop held at the University of California, Davis as part of a first-year seminar offered January through March 2017; and a half-day workshop held in Santa Barbara, California as part of the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference (CHESC) in June 2017
Summary
Climate change provides a good example of a complex systems problem for which place-specific case studies and participatory methodologies are apt. (Berkes & Jolly, 2001, p. 29). Community-based adaptation planning, which seeks to engage those most vulnerable to climate impacts, is growing in practice in North American cities (Ebi & Semenza, 2008), with notable examples in more vulnerable communities in the Northwest Territories of Canada (Armitage, 2005; Cohen, 1997), Florida (Frazier, Wood, & Yarnal, 2010) and California (Garzon et al, 2012; Moser & Ekstrom, 2011) These participatory approaches allow planners, decision-makers, and stakeholders to effectively address the complex challenges associated with climate change, linking the social with the ecological factors that contribute to vulnerability or resilience within a community. Implications of youth-generated content on contemporary community resilience planning efforts are discussed
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