Landscape adaptation to climate change: Local networks, social learning and co-creation processes for adaptive planning. (January 2023) - Galan, Juanjo
Highlights: Local co-creation processes prove useful to produce legitimate and viable CCA plans. Representative networks can effectively support CCA planning and social learning. Identifiable factors connect local networks, co-creation processes and CCA planning. Landscape is an effective systemic and integrative platform for CCA. 15 pilots across Europe promote governance innovation and increased transferability. Abstract: The development of legitimate, operative, and feasible landscape adaptation planning for climate change is dependent on the specific characteristics of the landscape and its inhabitants. Spatial patterns, culture, governance systems, socio-economic structures, planning methods, history, and collectively envisioned futures need to be accommodated. The literature suggests that landscape is a complex and dynamic socio-ecological system, the management and adaptation of which requires systemic and integrative approaches to respond to a wide variety of drivers of change, challenges, and interests. Based on activities developed in 15 European pilot landscapes, we identify some of the key factors and conditions affecting the generation of representative local networks for landscape adaptation to climate change. We illustrate how social learning and co-creation processes can be implemented in them and how their co-produced outcomes can help local communities overcome barriers and address critical issues in adaptive planning. Our results provide a framework for the creation of similar networks in other landscapes, exploring at the same time the interactions between the composition of networks, social learning, and the quality of the co-produced outputs as a fundamental step for the development of Landscape Adaptation Plans to Climate Change.