Visions of Resilience - A Workshop Manual
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2014
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Visions of Resilience - A Workshop Manual
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Architecture, Building and Planning
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BIGGS, C., Ryan, C., Bird, J., Trudgeon, M. & Roggema, R. (2014). Visions of Resilience - A Workshop Manual. VEIL.
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This manual aims to help organisations and communities adapt to future climate extremes. It outlines a process designed to involve community in climate change adaptation planning and to identify novel strategies to
build local resilience. Communities play a limited role in climate change adaptation planning, despite having the majority stake in the results. Many of the adaptation strategies currently considered by local and state government are small adjustments to existing ways of working. They don’t reflect the complexity and severity of likely climate impacts. Impacts we are already beginning to see. Effective adaptation demands a significant
change to current thinking and practice in community and government. But significant change is also disruptive. To make adaptation work, affected stakeholders need to know why change is needed. They must also own the goals and trajectory of change. This demands a significant ‘opening-up’ of existing planning processes – making them more democratic, open to diverse input and transparent about values and assumptions involved. In most instances of institutional change stakeholders need to feel they have helped shape the direction of change
before they will own it. With change needed in every town and every region, we require new collaborative decision-making tools to catalyse and support this process. This manual presents one such tool - a step-by-step workshop process to build local visions of resilience and identify barriers to change. The process can be used to identify local vulnerabilities to climate change and identify ways to build resilience that reflect community values and aspirations. It is intended primarily for a spatially defined area of interest – a town, suburb, city or region etc.