The EcoAdapt Project
The EcoAdapt project assisted South American communities in developing their ecosystem-based adaptation strategies.
Challenging predominant views with Theatre of the Oppressed
Theatre of the Oppressed is a powerful tool for challenging top-down approaches. This short film and article show how this approach can be used to build resilience.
Prosus #2: Building capacity for climate change adaptation in semi-arid regions
The second issue of START’s ProSus magazine features research and stories from the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) program.
Serious Climate Games: An Introduction
Climate games provide a way to facilitate learning in an interesting, engaging and memorable way. This article provides a brief outline of different climate games and resources available.
AdaptaClima: CCA Knowledge for Brazil
The AdaptaClima platform makes available various materials on adaptation to climate change, including studies, tools and methods, that are specific to Brazil.
Experiential learning workshop
Understanding Community Disaster Resilience
This animation visualises and explains the key components of the emBRACE project framework, and illustrates its potential utility as a tool to better understand CDR processes in communities.
emBRACE: Social Learning and Resilience Building
This report explores how the challenges faced by communities at risk from environmental hazards might be tackled via the application of social learning practices.
Social learning and climate change adaptation: evidence for international development practice
This article draws lessons from international practice on the use of social learning interventions for adaptation.
The split ladder of participation: A diagnostic, strategic, and evaluation tool to assess when participation is necessary
Abstract
The mainstream literature sees participation as critical to deepening democracy and solving complex environmental issues. An explosion of literature on public participation has...
Social Learning for Adaptation
Introduction
This handbook presents the experience of a participatory social learning process that evolved to support individual and community level adaptation to the myriad of stressors...
Catalysing adaptive capacity for development and climate change
Abstract
There is convergence between current theory and practice in global environmental change research and development communities on the importance of approaches that aim to ‘engage...
A framework for facilitating dialogue between policy planners and local climate change adaptation professionals
The dominant approach to mainstreaming climate adaptation into sectoral policies relies on an ‘upscaling’ model in which it is envisaged to extract lessons from local change processes to...
Stakeholder engagement
The process of stakeholder engagement and creating dialogue aims to generate a concrete understanding that empowers, builds capacity and facilitates different modes of learning.
Adaptacion y Agua para el Desarrollo Local
Este artículo relata el proceso de planificación y ejecución de un Seminario denominado “Adaptación al Cambio Climático y Agua para el Desarrollo Local” que se realizó con los actores...
Emerald Network Ltd
Working through an international network with core values of collaboration and inquiry, Emerald Network is a leading-edge niche consultancy specialising in social and institutional learning for cli
NCAP Methodologies
The NCAP projects used a variety of different methodologies to explore vulnerability and adaptation, from hydrological modelling to social learning and participatory planning. This page collects...
University of Foggia
The University of Foggia was established in 1999, formerly an offshoot of the University of Bari in the early 1990's.
Social Learning in Organisations
This article describes a number of barriers to learning in organisations that may occur.
What is Social Learning?
'Social' learning is thought to occur through the sharing of knowledge between individuals, groups and organisations in society through interactions, particularly in novel environments and situations where new opportunities and spaces of possibility can be explored.
Participation Methods
How do you input effective participatory methods? There is a general suite of methodologies and tools that can be combined and applied in a situation-specific manner with some being more participatory than others.
Learning and Power
Learn about the significance of power and how it can act in positive ways (empowerment) but also in negative ways, for example through excluding people from participating in the process or manipulating what information is shared.
Planning Stakeholder Engagement
How do you engage stakeholders after they have been identified? Effective use of stakeholders requires that decision-makers use the right stakeholders in the right place at the right time and undertake appropriate analysis of the elicited information.
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