Background and Goals
How governance by integrative visions can support cities in achieving heat risk resilience - The Project "GoingVis – keeping a cool head in hot times"seeks to enhance the resilience of small towns and their residents to the impacts of climate change.
Recent climate change adaptation strategies in Germany mainly concentrate on planning and technological measures of the built environment and infrastructure, such as greening of landscape or measures for (improved) water harvesting and storage. In comparison, social as well as behavioral measures and small cities, their needs and chances to adapt to climate change are given less attention in research and policy-making. At the same time, these cities often have less capacity to implement large-scale construction projects
The aim of GoingVis is to develop climate change adaptation processes suitable for small, peripheral towns. The two project partners Boizenburg / Elbe (PLATZ-B) and Transformation Centre Brikettfabrik Louise (Leuchtturm LOUISE) engage citizens and stakeholders in different participation formats, workshops and experiments to develop social adaptation practices.
Content time
toResearch area/region
Country
- Germany
Region of implementation (all German federal states)
- Brandenburg
- Mecklenburg Western Pomerania
Steps in the process of adaptation to climate change
Step 2b: Identify and assess risks - Vulnerability, risks and chances
Approach and results
Together with citizens and local actors, images of the future are developed in the project in order to test changed social practices in dealing with heat. It should be tested whether the images of the future help to implement adaptation measures and motivate them to make provision for themselves.
Step 3: Develop and compare measures
Measures and/or strategies
With the help of images of the future, new social practices in dealing with heat are to be developed. The focus is on practices that achieve heat resilience through coordination and collective behavior.
Step 4: Plan and implement measures
Measures and/or strategies
As part of the project, the citizens and actors involved test selected adaptation measures for dealing with heat and evaluate them to determine whether they can be successfully implemented locally and perpetuated.
Participants
Funding / Financing
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Project management
Freie Universität Berlin - Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU)
Cooperation/Partners
Stadt Boizenburg/Elbe, Brikettfabrik Louise in der Verbandsgemeinde Liebenwerda, (r)evolutionäre ideen
Our project “GoingVis – keeping a cool head in hot times” seeks to enhance the resilience of small towns and their residents to the impacts of climate change. We develop climate adaptation measures in participatory and co-creative processes with the local population.
