Journal
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
Volume 142, Issue -, Pages 147-158Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.03.011
Keywords
Climate change; Participatory decision-making; Landscape visualization; Virtual globe; Process evaluation; Policy outcomes
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Funding
- Columbia Basin Trust as part of the CBT's Communities Adapting to Climate Change initiative
- City of Kimberley
- Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia [16R45753, 16R43378, 16S70956]
- Ministry of Community Development - Smart Development Partnership Program [16R32784, 16R44450, 16R63592]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [PBEZP1-122976]
- European Biosphere 3D
- Columbia Basin Trust [16R65260]
- Geospatial Research Centre at Selkirk College (GEOIDE) [16R65906, 16R45255, 16R78095]
- Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC) ((PICS) [16R65069, 16R64820, 16R63896, 16R47168, 16R08614, 16R07664, 16R06546]
- Real Estate Foundation
- Ministry of Community Development
- Columbia Basin trust
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [PBEZP1-122976] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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This study synthesizes two evaluations of a local climate change planning process in a rural town in British Columbia (Canada), which was supported through landscape visualizations. First, the impact of the visualizations, based on scientific environmental modeling and presented in three different presentation formats, verbal/visual presentation, posters and a virtual globe, was evaluated with regard to immediate impacts during the process. Second, the long-term impacts on decision-making and actual outcomes were evaluated in a retrospective evaluation 22 months after the end of the initial planning process. Two results are highlighted: according to the quantitative pre-/post-questionnaires, the visualizations contributed to increased awareness and understanding. Most importantly, the retrospective evaluation indicated that the process informed policy, operational and built changes in Kimberley, in which the landscape visualizations played a role. The post interviews with key decision-makers showed that they remembered most of the visualizations and some decision-makers were further using them, particularly the posters. The virtual globe seemed to be not a sustainable display format suitable for formal decision-making processes such as council meetings though. That may change with the further mainstreaming of visualization technologies or mobile devices. Until then, we recommend using display formats that can be re-used following a specific planning event such as an Open House, to ensure on-going support for effective decision-making over the longer-term. Crown Copyright (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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