the importance of stakeholder dialogues in climate change adaptation prof. dr. martin welp...
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The importance of stakeholder dialogues in climate change adaptationProf. Dr. Martin Welp
University of Applied Sciences Eberswalde
Photo: Hannah Förster
POLDOC-WORKSHOP, Gdansk, 26 October 2006
Prof. Dr. Martin WelpSocioeconomics & Communication
New International Masters Programme:Global Change Management
URL: www.fh-eberswalde.de/gcm
Outline
1. Coastal management and climate change
2. Management, policy and scientific stakeholder dialogues
3. Analytical and communication tools
4. Conclusions
Source: http://www.ikzm-.de
Europe‘s coasts
• High diversity of coastal areas (from urban centres to coastal wetlands with protected areas for birds)
• Many of Europe's coastal zones face problems of deterioration of their environmental, socioeconomic and cultural resources
Key coastal concerns
• Quality of coastal waters
• Nature conservation
• Construction activities on the coast
• Coastal erosion
• Tourism development
• Climate change
Emerging issue: climate change
• Rising sea levels
• Storm surges
• Winterstorms
• Coastal flooding
• Air humudity
Photos: National Trust, UK, Sten Suuroja
Four coastal management styles
Participatory approach
Excludingapproach
Integrated approach
Sectoral approach
Routine management
Sector-based participatorymanagement
Social engineering
Management as
mutual learning
Welp 2000
Stakeholder dialogues
• Planning for adaptation as a process of mutual learning
• Stakeholders include planners, decision-makers, politicians, scientists, and the interested public
• Finding ways to adapt to climate change
• Raising awareness of climate change and coastal issues
Three types of dialoguesType of dialogue Objectives Initiator / principal
coordinatorManagement dialogues
- participation, building consensus, conflict resolution
Municipalities, planning agencies
Policy dialogues - creating support for policies, building alliances, passing laws and regulations
Policy-makers, government agencies
Science-based dialogues
- combining knowledge bases, increasing social relevance
Researchers, scientific institutions, networks
Management dialogues
• Coastal zone management on local and regional level
• Carried out by municipalities, sectoral agencies, etc.
• Stakeholders include land owners, businesses, local interest groups etc.
• From 1996-1999, Information about factors that encourage or discourage ICZM
• Stimulating a broad debate and exchange of information among the various actors involved in the planning, management or use of European coastal zones
• Stakeholder consultations (seminars, written responses)
EU Demonstration Programme on
Evaluation
• Evaluation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in Europe
• The results of this evaluation shall assist the European Commission
• http://www.rupprecht-consult.eu/iczm/
Science-based dialogues
• A science-based stakeholder dialogue is a structured communicative process of linking scientists with selected actors who are relevant for the research problem at hand.
• These actors may be representatives of companies, NGOs, local and regional planners, government agencies, etc.
Objectives of science-based dialogues
• Bringing together different knowledge bases• Identifying socially relevant research
questions • Identifying key data and parameters• ‘Reality check’
• - confronting mental models with reality• - confronting computer models with reality
• Preferences, expectations and decision-making rules
Tools for Dialogues
Communication tools Analytical tools
Communication tools
• Creating settings in which stakeholders with different backgrounds can team up and learn
• Examples: Focus Groups (ULYSSES), Games and role plays (ECF family of Climate Games), Visualisation
Analytical tools
• Structuring the problem
• Identifying areas of agreement and disagreement among stakeholders
• Examples: Group model building, Bayesian belief networks, Multi-criteria Analysis
Challenges
• Limited resources (stakeholder dialogues need to be effective)
• Stereotyping
• Trust building takes time
• Language barriers
• Different working cultures
• Difficulties in systems thinking
Conclusions• We need to create safe places where
the exchange of arguments is possible
• A combination of communication and analytical tools is needed
• We need to link scientific, policy and management dialogues
• Mainstreaming
Forthcoming book
Stoll-Kleemann, S. & Welp, M. (eds.) Stakeholder Dialogues in Natural Resources Management.Springer Environmental Sciences(November 15, 2006)
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