CHOOSE CLEAN WATER CONFERENCE 2013 LOCAL APPROACHES TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN

THE CHESAPEAKE

SOCIAL APPROACHES TOCLIMATE CHANGE

IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY REGION

Panelist: Victoria Chanse, Ph.D.

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

Social Responses & Shifting Scales: Barriers to Developing Sea Level Change

Responses1. lack of available local data; 2. the gap between hazard-related plans and land

use planning; 3. lack of public support; 4. competing workplace priorities; and 5. limited budgets.

(Source: NOAA 2010)

Approaches to Addressing the Social Components of Local Climate Change

1) Developing visualization approaches and communication (NOAA 2010; Schroth 2009)

2) Work with with stakeholders and communities to develop an understanding of the localized impacts and the design responses at the regional and site scales is critical (Schroth et. al. 2009).

(Source: NOAA 2010)

Questions

1. What are some different ways to involve the public in climate change management & design?

2. What are the implications of these different approaches with regards to the Chesapeake Bay Restoration and Clean-up?

What are some different ways to involve the public in climate change management & design?

Flyer designed by doctoral student Jennifer Salazar.

Workshop Goals

• Convey potential impacts to Dorchester County stakeholders.

• Identify and prioritize locations around the county.

• Examine different design responses and preferred approaches to incorporate into the design.

MLA Students Rosamaria Mora, Matt Sickle, and Michael Boeck

Some Examples of Particular Workshop Approaches

• Identify where residents live and spend time.• Preferences & Priorities (environmental, built

form, flooding solutions, prioritizing natural features

• Statements in terms of selecting which was important (economic, infrastructure, drinking water)

• Identification of Issues and locations within the county that residents were concerned about.

Issues of Concern to Residents and StakeholdersWhat is most important to you?

• Roads near home becoming unusable (#1)

• Concerned about the quality of wells and

septic systems (#2)• Flooding (#3)• Property value (#4)

Participation Team:MLA Students Kory Kreiseder, Allison Jensen, Kim Wharton, and Chris Myers

2. What are the implications to with the Chesapeake Bay Restoration and Clean-up?

LARC 748 – ARCH 403UG COLLABORATIVE STUDIO

STUDENT:

MORA, ROSAMARIA

PROJECT:

KINETIC LANDSCAPES

LARC 748 – ARCH 403UG COLLABORATIVE STUDIO

Stakeholder Involvement Needs: Climate Change Visuals

1) To translate complex climate change data into potential impacts at the local scale;

2) To examine the different possible trajectories such as retreat or protect the shoreline by building up (Sheppard 2011);

3) To incorporate different types of information (social, ecological, and economic components); and

4) Engaging stakeholders in exploring possible responses. Different types of images and maps at different scales inform different stages of the process and different types of involvement. Personal images of important local places can quite literally bring climate change home to audiences.

Priorities, Visuals, and Trajectories

• Developing a series of scenarios of adaptation responses (defend, retreat, or other forms of adaptation) for stakeholder workshops.

• Use visuals to engage cross-disciplinary and cross-collaboration with stakeholders, residents, hazard planners in order to a) identify and prioritize areas and issues of concern and b) to examine different possibilities. This is particularly pertinent given sense of loss in addressing sea level change in Dorchester County.

• Developing and demonstrating a rationale for planning and design decisions.

Implications

• Public Involvement Process from Site Analysis to Alternative Responses

• Visual Communication Approaches• Time Frames• Scales of Inquiry• Design Exploration of Alternative Responses• Design Exploration

References• Cole, Wanda Diane. 2008. Sea Level Rise: Technical Guidance for Dorchester County.

Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Coastal Zone Management Division.• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coastal Services Center. 2010.

Hazard and Resiliency Planning—Perceived Benefits and Barriers Among Land Use Planners: Final Research Report 26 April 2010. Accessed at: www.csc.noaa.gov/publications/social_ science/NOAACSCResearchReport.pdf

• Sheppard, Stephen R.J.; Alison Shaw; David Flanders; Sarah Burch, Arnim Wiek, Jeff Carmichael, John Robinson,and Stewart Cohen. 2011. “Future visioning of local climate change: A framework for community engagement and planning with scenarios and visualization.” Futures 43(4): 410.

• Schroth, Olaf, Ellen Pond, Sara Muir-Owen, Cam Campbell, and S.R.J. Sheppard. 2009. Tools for the understanding of spatio-temporal climate scenarios in local planning. National Science Foundation SNSF Bern: Swiss. www.calp.forestry.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Schroth_2009_Final_SNSF_Report.pdf.

• Sheppard, Stephen. 2012. Visualizing Climate Change: A Guide to Visual Communication of Climate Change and Developing Local Solutions. Routledge Press.

Dorchester Acknowledgments• Dorchester County, the City of Cambridge, and the Eastern Shore Land

Conservancy.• Anne Roane, Planner and Landscape Architect and Rodney Banks, Hazard

Planner (City of Cambridge, MD).• Thanks to Chris Haynes (NOAA Coastal Services), David Cronrath (School of

Architecture), Brad McCrea (SF Bay Conservation and Development Commission, Rising Tides Competition), Olaf Schroth (CALP), Clark Wilson (U.S. EPA), and Zoe Johnson (MD DNR) for their insights, support, and ideas as the project developed.

• Spring 2011 LARC748 MLA Students Allison Palmer, Chris Myers, Kim Wharton, Kory Kreiseder, Matt Sickle, Michael Boeck, and Rosamaria Mora.

• Research collaborators Architecture Professor Luis Diego Quiros and doctoral student Kevin Adams.

• Spring 2012 ARCH403 Sections (Architecture Professors Ronit Eisenbach, Isaac S Williams, and Michael Stanton)

• This work would not have been possible without the financial support of the 2011-2012 Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station Grant.