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Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
Issues for implementing a transdisciplinary approach to
coastal planning
Copenhagen, 27-28 October 2010
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
Presentation outline:• Why implementing a transdisciplinary
approach to coastal planning• Issues• Discussion
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
Coastal zone and coastal zone management
• Coastal areas as emblematic example of complex systems:– Multiple agents– Conflicts of resources uses– Complex natural processes– Land-ocean interactions– Emergent properties
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
Integrated Coastal Zone Management
• Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament (2000, for the preparation of a Recommendation adopted on 30 May 2002)– “ICZM is a process that implies a new style of
governance, a style that involves and is in partnership with all of the segments of civil society. ICZM solicits the collaboration of all coastal zone stakeholders in the conception and implementation of a development model that is in their mutual interest”
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
Notwithstanding this 30 years history of ICZM:
‘ICZM has not yet fully demonstrate its potential’
(World Bank 2003)
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
Two levels:• Institutional and governance issues
– International, national, and local levels– Sectorial agencies– Coastal users
• Epistemological issues– Natural sciences– Social sciences
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
• Transdisciplinary approach:– Communicative and collaborative
planning to integrate different perspectives, and preferences of the different agents
– Researchers, stakeholders, and decision-makers cooperate in the research process
– The legitimate setting is provided by the concept of governance
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
Governance
• A more cooperative process of governing, policy-making, and decision-making, so different from the hierarchical model in which state authorities exterted sovereign control over groups and citizens that make up the civil society (Van Bueren and ten Heuvelhof, 2005)
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
The emergence of transdisciplinarity
Mode-2 (Gibbons et al. 1994) Mode-1 Science Mode-2 Science
Academic Academic and socialMono-disciplinary Trans- and
interdisciplinaryTechnocratic ParticipativeCertain UncertainPredictive Explorative
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
The emergence of transdisciplinarity
• Post-normal science (Funtowicz and Ravezt 1993)
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
CoAST (Collaborative Assessment Support Tools)
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM
Stakeholders
Decision-makersPolicy-makers
EcosystemStructure
&Processes
Values Views
Operational objectives
Coastal zoneplanning
Coastal zonemanagement
EcosystemGoods &Services
Planning and management alternatives
Scenarios
OngoingAdaptiveManagement
Governance
Monitoring Management
Public participation
EvaluationThrough
selected indicators
DESIGN PHASEDECISION
PHASE
INTELLIGENCE PHASE
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
Discussion (1)• Processes of structuring and taking decisions in
complex environments– Normative and prescriptive decision-theory– Development of a framework for knowledge
sharing and knowledge co-production– Involvement of all social actors– Scientists needs insights and scientists need to
communicate their results– Learning process
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
Discussion (2)
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
Strengths and weaknesses of transdisciplinarity
– discussion of transdisciplinarity as a guiding idea in integrated resource management and environmental policy
– a discussion of examples of successful cooperation between scientists, resource managers and resource user groups
– general epistemological discussion of the concept and its variants
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
Reflections• A growing debate on the role of science in
contemporary knowledge societies. • A key tenet of most of these debates is that
science and society are ever more strongly intertwined.
• Techno-scientific knowledge and products have become crucial to a broad range of economic, social activities
• Knowledge production is no longer restrained to the classical spaces and places of science, but rather society as an extended ‘laboratory’ in which experimental knowledge is produced in close proximity to and interaction with life-world
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
Open questions (1)• Research objects and questions negotiated
and developed in transdisciplinary research
• Different and partly contradictory time regimes structure these investigations
• Role of the language and communication play in the generation and dissemination of transdisciplinary knowledge
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
Open questions (2)• Spaces and places of
transdisciplinary knowledge production and how they frame the knowledge produced
• Forms of collaboration are produced, performed and negotiated in such heterogeneous contexts
Methods for assessing current and future coastal vulnerability to climate change
Dr. Francesca Santoro Università Ca’ Foscari and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
Thank you for your attention!