Bridging Perspectives by Coupling Data for Environmental Decision Support

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www.climateconcerns.org
Voicing Concerns about Regional Climate Change
and Community Vulnerability along the Oregon
Coast
Tim Nyerges, University of Washington Dawn
Wright, Oregon State University Robert Aguirre,
Robert W. Aguirre, PLLC Tanya Haddad, Oregon
Ocean and Coastal Management Program Jeff Weber,
Oregon Ocean and Coastal Management
Program Coastal Zone 09 Boston MA
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Vulnerability Mapping

• Project funded by NOAA-CPO-SARP
• Phase 1. On-line elicitation of stakeholder
  concern-indicators about climate change and
  variability along the Oregon Coast
• Phase 2. Data compilation from Oregon Coastal
  Atlas (www.coastalatlas.org) used for
  vulnerability mapping of concern-indicators
• Phase 3. On-line deliberative mapping of
  stakeholder vulnerability concerns-indicators

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From H-M Füssel and R. J.T. Klein (2006),
Climate change vulnerability assessments An
evolution of conceptual thinking. Climatic
Change 75 301-329.
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Phase 1
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From valued-concerns to indicators, creating
stakeholder-driven database design
1. climate concern -gt keyword/phrase2.
keyphrase -gt category3. category hierarchy
-gt path4. concern-indicator path -gt data
unit5. report
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From concerns to indicators
Knowledge,information, datacoupling1.
climateconcern -gtkeyword2. keyword -gt
category3. category hierarchy-gt path4.
concern-indicatorpath -gt data
Stakeholder-driven database design
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Phase 2. Database compilation in
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Phase 3. Deliberative Mapping of Vulnerability
Scenarios
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• Web interface for MapChat 2to be integrated

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Stakeholder created report

• Regional Climate Change
• and
• Community Vulnerability
• along the Oregon Coast
• Compiled from all previous input

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Conclusions

• Implementing online structured participation
  techniques fosters shared understanding of
  complex problems such as climate change indicator
  (database) design
• (NRC 1996, 2005, 2009)
• Access to relevant data will undoubtedly be a
  major challenge but identifying data for
  stakeholder-elicited indicators is a step toward
  operationalizing public concerns.
• Deliberative mapping tools show potential for
• getting the right science, and getting the
  science right
• to support mitigation and adaptation policy
  making.
• (NRC 1996)

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Thank you for listening!
www.climateconcerns.org

• Acknowledgement
• Research funded by the National Oceanic and
  Atmospheric Administration, Climate Program
  Office, Sectoral Applications Research Program
  NA07OAR4310410.
• Project personnel are responsible for the
  content and claims.

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