Mind the gaps! Climate scientists should heed lessons in collaborative storytelling from William Shakespeare

L Shenk, WJ Gutowski Jr - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To co‐produce locally relevant climate knowledge, climate scientists are engaging in new
collaborations—with stakeholders and with scholars in the humanities, arts, and social …

[HTML][HTML] Growing community energy initiatives from the bottom up: Simulating the role of behavioural attitudes and leadership in the Netherlands

A Ghorbani, L Nascimento, T Filatova - Energy Research & Social Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Local energy initiatives (LEIs) are communities of households who self-organize to meet
their energy demand with locally produced green energy. They facilitate citizen participation …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunities and limitations of integrating computational and collaborative approaches to scenario planning

R Debnath, C Pettit, SZ Leao - Journal of Urban Management, 2023 - Elsevier
In the context of changing global trends and growing uncertainties, creating and evaluating
alternative future scenarios is crucial for urban and regional planning. Computational and …

Modeling social resilience: Questions, answers, open problems

F Schweitzer, G Andres, G Casiraghi… - Advances in Complex …, 2022 - World Scientific
Resilience denotes the capacity of a system to withstand shocks and its ability to recover
from them. We develop a framework to quantify the resilience of highly volatile, non …

[PDF][PDF] An urban modelling framework for climate resilience in low-resource neighbourhoods

U Passe, M Dorneich, C Krejci, DM Koupaei… - Buildings and …, 2020 - par.nsf.gov
Climate predictions indicate a strong likelihood of more frequent, intense heat events.
Resourcevulnerable, low-income neighbourhood populations are likely to be strongly …

[HTML][HTML] It's in the social network: The Social Neighbourhood model to unravel local social structures for liveable and safe neighbourhoods

G Slingerland, I Nikolic, F Brazier - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Fast growth of cities decreases the quality of life in these places. In response, Municipalities
install policies aiming to improve local livability. While literature suggests social structures to …

Women taking action: Multisession learning circles, storytelling, and an ecosystem of relationships for conservation

L Shenk, J Eells, W Almitra - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 2023 - jswconline.org
Current conservation outreach largely focuses on single-day, presentation-heavy events
typically addressed to farmers, mostly men. Our project created a multisession learning …

Inclusive decision-making: Applying human factors methods to capture the needs and voices of marginalized populations

J Stonewall, MC Dorneich, L Shenk… - … , inclusion, and social …, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
As urban areas face uncertain climate futures, leaders are challenged with making decisions
to mitigate the effects of climate events on vulnerable populations. However, these …

[HTML][HTML] Does distributive justice improve welfare outcomes in climate adaptation? An exploration using an agent-based model of a stylized social–environmental …

A Joshi, E Chappin, N Doorn - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Scholars increasingly propose distributive justice as a means to foster effective and fair
outcomes in climate adaptation. To advance the discussion on its place in climate policy, it is …

Shaking ground and shifting collectives: Understanding community resilience in Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the …

A Rudkevitch - 2022 - researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz
At 00: 02 on 14 November, 2016 a destructive 7.8 Mw earthquake struck the North
Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. Prior to and following the earthquake …