Work Package 6
Climate-resilient Strategies for Urban Planning
Work Package is led by Co-PI Nkiko, Co-Applicants Dixon and local case city teams to bring together multiple voices to leverage the insights for strategy implementation for the different participants engaged in the project especially WP1-5. It aims to unite diverse stakeholder groups, leveraging their collective innovative insights from Work Packages 1 through 5, to enhance the implementation of climate-resilient strategies for urban planning.
Research Questions.
This work package explores multiple research questions including what methodologies are most effective for synthesizing and integrating insights from multiple work packages into actionable urban planning strategies and how can integrated insights be tailored to address specific urban climate resilience challenges effectively.
It also explores what are the key components of a comprehensive framework for the practical implementation of climate-resilient urban planning strategies and how can implementation frameworks be designed to support the practical application of climate-resilient strategies in diverse urban contexts.
In the context of knowledge creation and sharing, it asks what criteria should be used to identify best practices in climate-resilient urban planning and how can success stories be effectively communicated to inspire and guide future urban planning initiatives.
Methods
WP 6 will use storytelling techniques in semi-structured interviews to prompt migrants to share lived climate hazard stories and experiences during their journeys and their stay in the host communities. Semi-structured interviews enable a more intimate, trusted and honest setting in which interviewees could reflect as freely as possible on their own others experiences and knowledge of the tensions experienced during stakeholder engagement events (WP1-5).
We will first carry out follow-up semi-structured group interviews (months 25-26) with 10-15 key stakeholders from categories selected during Strand 2 in each case city (including migrants, host citizens, policymakers, educators and businesses and support organisations). Second, utilizing resulting data and future urban migration flows (WP 5) and cultural, norms and value points (WP4), participant mind-maps will allow participants to connect different elements and to identify recurrent climate hazards and SEVs. Each category group will then identify one or two leverage points for strategy implementation, that is, elements that occupy a crucial position on their map and requires participants to agree on a limited set of issues to be prioritized for city planners and policymakers. Continuing, the groups will then develop innovative strategic points for local planning and policy that draws on the expertise and experiences of the groups’ identified climate hazards and SEVs.
Intellectual Merit and impact
This work package leverages strategy points will feed into LVB and GLR case cities’ adaption and resilience strategies.WP 6 promotes resilience through the development of long-term strategies for future uncertainty of climate migration influxes into cities.
