Date: 27 September
Time: 13.30 - 15.00

Session program

• Welcome and introduction to the session  
• The value of citizen engagement in deliberation to strengthen capacity building, Fanny Möckel 
• Exploring people's place attachment, risk perception and adaptive behavior in two small communities, Leikny Bakke Lie 
• Recognition and integration of citizens’ climate adaptation practices by local authorities: Landslide prevention in Mid-Norway, Sara Heidenreich 
• How sense of place influence perspectives on flood risk prevention on small Danish Islands, Nina Baron 

Each presenter has 10 min. to present + 2-3 min. for questions.  

Climate change requires deep and wide societal transformation both for accelerating decarbonization and reducing greenhouse gases and for adapting to the irreversible changes we already experience and will experience in the future. The expected increase of climate change-related hazards, such as floods, storms, extreme rains, or landslides, requires that local communities, organisations, and authorities build capacity to deal with such hazards.  

Capacity building is important in the context of prevention of climate change-related hazard as well as for preparedness, response, and recovery. However, local communities, organisations, and authorities are often not adequately equipped to deal with an increase of hazards. Thus, this session addresses how different stakeholders, such as authorities and emergency management organisations, can build capacity together with the local communities, through involving the resources, knowledges, and skills of their citizens.  

We invite paper submissions that address the following issues: 

• How do citizens perceive climate change related hazards in their community? What are the local concerns? 
• How can capacity building be organized to meet local concerns? 
• How can competencies and resources such as local knowledge, local practices, among local communities/of citizens contribute to capacity building for climate change adaptation? 
• How can public and private support systems, in and around the local communities, be organized to better build capacity? 
• What role does place attachment have in capacity building? 
• What role can methodological approaches such as narratives and storytelling have in capacity building? 
• And more… 

Organizers 

Sara Heidenreich, KULT, NTNU 
Nina Baron, University College of Copenhagen 
Robert Næss, KULT, NTNU

Contact: Sara Heidenreich