Resilience to climate change: from theory to practice through co-production of knowledge in Chile

Sustainability Science - Tập 12 - Trang 163-176 - 2016
Roxana Borquez1,2, Paulina Aldunce2,3, Carolina Adler4
1Department of Geography, King’s College London, London, UK
2Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR2), Blanco Encalada 2002, 4 Piso, DGF, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
3Department of Environmental Science and Resource Management, Faculty of Agricultural Science, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
4Institute for Environmental Decisions and Transdisciplinarity Lab, D-USYS, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Tóm tắt

In theory, building resilience is touted as one way to deal with climate change impacts; however, in practice, there is a need to examine how contexts influence the capacity of building resilience. A participatory process was carried out through workshops in regions affected by drought in Chile in 2014. The aim was to explore how resilience theory can be better applied and articulated into practice vis-á-vis participatory approaches that enrich the research process through the incorporation of co-produced. The results show that there are more differences in responses by type of actor than between regions, where issues of national interest, such as ‘education-information’ and ‘preparedness’, are highlighted over others. However, historically relevant local topics emerged as differentiators: decentralisation, and political will. This reinforces why special attention must be given to the different understandings in knowledge co-production processes. This study provides evidence and lessons on the importance of incorporating processes of the co-production of knowledge as a means to better articulate and transfer abstract concepts, such as resilience theory, into practice.

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