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POLDOC-WORKSHOP, Gdansk, 26 October 2006
The importance of stakeholder
dialogues in climate change
adaptation
Prof. Dr. Martin Welp
University of Applied Sciences Eberswalde
Photo: Hannah Förster
Prof. Dr. Martin Welp
Socioeconomics & 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
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Quality of coastal waters
Nature conservation
Construction activities on the coast
Coastal erosion
Tourism development
Climate change
Emerging issue: climate change
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Rising sea levels
Storm surges
Winterstorms
Coastal flooding
Air humudity
Photos: National Trust,
UK, Sten Suuroja
Four coastal management styles
Integrated
approach
Social
engineering
Management as
mutual learning
Excluding
approach
Participatory
approach
Routine
management
Sector-based
participatory
management
Sectoral
approach
Welp 2000
Stakeholder dialogues
• Planning for adaptation as a process of
mutual learning
• Stakeholders include planners, decisionmakers, politicians, scientists, and the
interested public
• Finding ways to adapt to climate change
• Raising awareness of climate change and
coastal issues
Three types of dialogues
Type of dialogue
Objectives
Initiator / principal
coordinator
Management
dialogues
- participation, building Municipalities,
consensus, conflict
planning agencies
resolution
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.
EU Demonstration Programme on
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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)
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 decisionmaking 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)
Learning for adaptation:
Dutch cow ready for sea level rise…
Thank you!
Email: [email protected]
URL: www. fh-eberswalde.de/welp