Table 2.
Case study overview
| Title | Communicating climate change: what’s the forest worth? | Co-producing and co-learning climate adaptation strategies in biodiversity conservation: lessons from Colombian protected areas | Communicating climate change in the Indian Sundarbans | Communicating grassroot stakeholders: climate change and biodiversity crisis in coastal Bangladesh | The Aswan DESIRE Workshop on socio-economic impacts of RES in MENA countries | Ecosystem Services as a rallying concept in multi-stakeholder workshops on biodiversity management and conservation | Dissidence and sabotage to redress scientific bias in communicating desirable coastal land management futures | Fieldwork experiences from climate change adaptation research on the Isles of Scilly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region | South America | South Asia | Africa | Europe | ||||
| Location | Amazon rainforest, Brazil | Various protected areas in Colombia | Mousuni Island, India | Shyamnagar Upazila, Bangladesh | Aswan, Egypt | Lake Manyara Basin, Tanzania | Baltic Sea, Germany | Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom |
| Context (What is the larger context of the case study?) |
Interdisciplinary research project on climate change and land management. The activity aimed at assessing carbon stocks, analysing knowledge production, and providing indigenous people with data for REDD+ projects | Interdisciplinary research project on how to strengthen protected-area managers’ capacities to anticipate and respond to climate change and to rethink conservation and management strategies for climate adaptation | Research project on the effects of water-related hazards on the vulnerability of islanders to climatic events. Analysis of the adequacy of institutional support for locals who lost faith in gov. support and engaged in maladaptation practices | Research project on trends in aquatic ecosystems of the coast of Bangladesh. Investigation of community perceptions on changes in the ecosystem, biodiversity and their impacts | Capacity-building project for higher education institutions in teaching students and young professionals in the MENA region on evaluating the socio-economic impacts of renewable energy/energy efficiency | Multi-disciplinary research initiative-project to support the development of a decision-support system for integrated water management and for assessing priority ES | Interdisciplinary research project on climate change and coastal land management. Key topic: evaluation of coastal protection scenarios based on managed realignment compared to conventional hard defence | Research project to analyse the role of social capital and community resilience in the context of climate change adaptation |
| Duration of the case study event (without interviews) | 4 weeks field trip and 1 day presentation | 40 days with various workshops 28 individual interview sessions |
6 days with workshops 120 individual interview sessions |
60 workshops of 3 hours each | 1-day workshop | 6 days, split into two workshops | 1-day World Café and 21 expert interviews | 35 interview sessions, split over 9 weeks 1-day workshop |
| Focus area | Mitigation (REDD+) | Adaptation and conservation (various) | Adaptation (extreme weather) | Adaption (responses to biodiversity loss) | Climate change mitigation (renewable energy) | Adaptation (ecosystems) | Mitigation (CO2 storage) and adaption (sea level rise, extreme weather) | Adaptation (sea level rise) |