Contents
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Research Background 1
1.1.1 Climate change: the interlinked challenges of mitigation and adaptation 1
1.1.2 Steps in Adaptation process 3
1.1.3 The climate learning Ladder 4
1.2 Aim 6
1.3 Research Questions 7
1.4 Methodology 7
2 Policy Context and Background 9
2.1 International Policy context 9
2.2 National Policy Context 11
3 Stakeholder Mapping 13
3.1 Conceptualizing climate change adaptation process 13
3.1.1 Adaptation to climate change 13
3.2 Conceptualizing stakeholders 14
3.3 Identification of the stakeholders 15
3.4 The Method 17
3.4.1 Step 1: Specifying the typology of stakeholders 17
3.4.2 Step 2: Specifying the roles of stakeholders 21
3.4.3 Step 3: Categorization of stakeholders 21
3.4.4 Step 4 & 5: Associating Stakeholders with Roles and Analyze Their Influence and Interests 23
4 Selection of target Stakeholder 27
4.1 Stakeholder‘s participation in climate change adaptation process 27
4.1.1 Stakeholder Participation 27
4.1.2 Top-down and Bottom-up Perspectives in Adaptation Governance 29
4.1.3 The role of community engagement in climate change adaptation 30
4.2 Public Perception 31
4.2.1 The importance of public perception in adaptation 31
4.3 Challenges in Civic Stakeholder Participation 32
5 Awareness generation 33
5.1 Conceptualizing climate change adaptation Awareness 33
5.2 Current state of awareness, knowledge creation and accessibility 34
5.3 Methods of awareness generation 34
5.3.1 Drama and Role playing 35
5.3.2 Games 39
5.3.3 Art and Design (installations) 40
5.3.5 Publications 49
5.4 The Awareness exercise 51
5.4.1 Introduction 51
5.4.2 The Walk 53
5.4.3 Findings 58
6 Conclusion 60