Climate Resilience in Concept and Practice: ISET Working Paper 1
The Shared Learning Dialogue
Building Stakeholder Capacity and Engagement for Resilience Action
Overview
Climate change represents a unique challenge as a global force with profoundly local consequences. Generating effective responses to climate change impacts requires understanding of emerging global scientific knowledge as well as the range of local factors that shape the nature of impacts on individuals, communities, and local ecosystems. It also requires overcoming the significant divisions that typically exist between sectors and disciplines within a locality. To that end, ISET, along with local and regional partners, have developed and piloted the Shared Learning Dialogue (SLD), a stakeholder engagement process born from strong roots in participatory action research. This paper outlines the underpinnings and key characteristics of the SLD process. ISET has successfully applied the SLD process in a number of Asian contexts to facilitate learning and generate options for responding to current and future climate conditions. We offer a number of examples and key lessons from the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) project, as well as more rurally focused examples from Pakistan and Nepal, to illustrate the utility and challenges of using a shared learning approach to building an understanding of climate change risks, impacts, and resilience
Citation: ISET-International (2010). The Shared Learning Dialogue: Building Stakeholder Capacity and Engagement for Resilience
Action. Climate Resilience in Concept and Practice Working Paper Series. Colorado, USA: ISET-International.
