TY - JOUR
T1 - Learning and envisioning under climatic uncertainty: An African experience
AU - Tschakert, Petra
AU - Dietrich, K.
AU - Tamminga, K.
AU - Prins, E.
AU - Shaffer, J.
AU - Liwenga, E.
AU - Asiedu, A.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Learning about and embracing change and uncertainty are essential for responding to climate change. Creativity, critical reflection, and cogenerative inquiry can enhance adaptive capacity, or the ability to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to adverse future impacts. However, precisely how learning about change and its driving forces occurs and how experiences are combined with envisioned yet indefinite prospects of the future are poorly understood. We present two linked methodological tools-an assessment of drivers of change and participatory scenario building-used in a climate change adaptation project in Ghana and Tanzania (ALCCAR). We discuss opportunities and challenges of such iterative learning. Our findings suggest that joint exploration, diverse storylines, and deliberation help to expand community-based adaptation repertoires and to strike a balance between hopelessness and a tendency to idealize potential future realities. © 2014 Pion and its Licensors.
AB - Learning about and embracing change and uncertainty are essential for responding to climate change. Creativity, critical reflection, and cogenerative inquiry can enhance adaptive capacity, or the ability to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to adverse future impacts. However, precisely how learning about change and its driving forces occurs and how experiences are combined with envisioned yet indefinite prospects of the future are poorly understood. We present two linked methodological tools-an assessment of drivers of change and participatory scenario building-used in a climate change adaptation project in Ghana and Tanzania (ALCCAR). We discuss opportunities and challenges of such iterative learning. Our findings suggest that joint exploration, diverse storylines, and deliberation help to expand community-based adaptation repertoires and to strike a balance between hopelessness and a tendency to idealize potential future realities. © 2014 Pion and its Licensors.
U2 - 10.1068/a46257
DO - 10.1068/a46257
M3 - Article
SN - 0308-518X
VL - 46
SP - 1049
EP - 1068
JO - Environment and Planning A
JF - Environment and Planning A
IS - 5
ER -