Abstract

Over the next decade, an estimated 100 million people will need to adapt where and how they live to accommodate the changing climate. Although mitigation strategies can slow the pace of climate change, change is inevitable. Government and intergovernmental institutions will need to lead the way in facilitating adaptation processes; but for these to be successful, equitable, and not lead to maladaptive outcomes, institutions need to collaborate with frontline and Indigenous communities, the first and often most impacted by climate change. Currently, the communication infrastructure for collaborative adaptation planning does not exist. Frontline communities lack the mechanisms and institutional support to communicate well with institutions. Likewise, institutions lack the capacity to understand communities’ values or to integrate their lived experiences and visions into concrete decision-making scenarios. At the conference, we will focus on the theme of climate justice that presents a need for a theoretical framework for communication infrastructure for climate action. The Deep Listening Project (TDLP) is a multidisciplinary, and multi-university effort to create a sustainable communication infrastructure for collaborative adaptation. We aim to present our framework that is built on five components of the deep listening project- Knowledge sharing, Holding space, Co-production and sharing of climate imaginaries, Sensemaking with a diversity of perspectives, Evaluation and monitoring support to assure accountability. We will highlight the gaps in current communication infrastructure by inferring from adaptation case studies and explore how the application of tools and procedures for effective communication can contribute towards procedural justice, leading to fewer maladaptive outcomes.

Presenters

Mona Vijaykumar
Student, Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, United States

Gabriela Degetau Zanders
Student, Architecture and Planning, MIT, United States

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

2022 Special Focus - Responding to Climate Change as Emergency: Governing the Climate Emergency

KEYWORDS

COLLABORATIVE CLIMATE ADAPTATION, INDIGENOUS AND FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES, TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE

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