Towards 'Creative Participatory Science': Exploring Future Scenarios Through Specialist Drought Science and Community Storytelling
Towards 'Creative Participatory Science': Exploring Future Scenarios Through Specialist Drought Science and Community Storytelling
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DOI：
10.3389/fenvs.2020.589856
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发表时间：
2021-02-05
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Wilson, Michael
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作者：
Liguori, Antonia;McEwen, Lindsey;Wilson, Michael
人们对不同形式的参与式建模越来越感兴趣，这些建模将科学和非专业知识带入同一空间。这承认，传统上，环境科学界大多认为利益攸关方的参与是一个“后续”活动，一旦关键的科学研究已经完成。科学家将社区排除在科学进程之外，或最多以单向交流的方式与社区接触，从而错失了当地社区关于他们试图了解的环境各个方面的丰富知识。然而，面临的挑战是确定、开发和采用适当的交流和共同创造平台，使科学家和当地社区能够进行有效对话，有效收集、解释和评估外行知识，并开发相关的、科学上可靠的、但广泛理解的结果。DRY（干旱风险与你）是一个为期4年的项目，由RCUK干旱和缺水计划资助，旨在开发基于证据的资源，以支持联合王国干旱风险管理中更好的决策。在干旱和干旱年，科学数据和多种叙述方法被汇集在一起，以促进决策过程和提高社区的复原力。DRY跨学科团队设计了创造性的实验，让当地社区参与使用专业科学作为在流域层面讲故事的刺激因素，同时也让科学家了解制定有意义的当地变化情景所需的洞察力，以探索特定河流流域的潜在干旱影响。讲故事的一个挑战是，它通常是回顾性的，与过去的经历和记忆有关。它可以被看作是一种向后看的活动，主要是从以前发生的事情中学习。在干旱、干旱和干旱年中采用的参与性方法表明，讲故事也可以用来想象、询问和规划社区可能集体希望认同或适应的未来。特别是，通过共同设计和促进故事板研讨会，DRY团队与当地利益相关者一起，一直在探索可能的未来，作为一种创造故事和可视化社区未来图景的方式。通过让科学家、社区和当地利益攸关方利用讲故事的方式共同反复制定干旱情景模型，这些情景不仅应在科学上准确，而且还应反映当地的利益和愿望，以及当地的干旱缓解做法。这一进程结合了宝贵的知识交流和共同资本的建立，以支持当地的风险决策----从个人到集体。
There is a growing interest in different forms of participatory modeling that bring science and lay knowledge into the same space. This recognizes that, traditionally, the environmental science community has mostly seen stakeholder engagement as a 'follow on' activity to be undertaken once the key scientific research has been completed. By excluding communities from the scientific process, or at best approaching communities in one-way communication, scientists are missing out on the wealth of local community knowledge about the very facets of the environment which they seek to understand. The challenge, however, is in identifying, developing and adopting appropriate platforms for communication and co-creation to allow scientists and local communities to have effective dialogue, efficiently gather, interpret and evaluate lay knowledge, and develop relevant, scientifically robust, but widely comprehensible, results. DRY (Drought Risk and You) was a 4-year project, funded under the RCUK Drought and Water Scarcity Program, with the aim of developing an evidence-based resource to support better decision-making in United Kingdom drought risk management. In DRY, scientific data and multiple narrative approaches have been brought together to facilitate decision-making processes and improve community resilience. Creative experiments were designed by the DRY interdisciplinary team to engage local communities in using specialist science as a stimulus for storytelling at catchment level, but also to give scientists the insight required to develop meaningful scenarios of local change to explore potential drought impacts in a particular river catchment. One challenge of working with storytelling is that it is very often retrospective and linked to past experiences and memories. It can be seen as a backward-looking activity, learning principally from what has happened before. The participatory approaches applied in DRY demonstrated that storytelling can be also used to imagine, interrogate and plan for a future that communities might collectively wish to subscribe or adapt to. In particular, by co-designing and facilitating storyboarding workshops, the DRY team, together with local stakeholders, have been exploring the 'scenario-ing' of possible futures as a way of creating a story and visualizing a picture for the future of the community. By allowing the scientists, community and local stakeholders to develop model drought scenarios iteratively together using storytelling, these scenarios should not only be scientifically accurate, but should also reflect local interests and aspirations, as well as local drought mitigation practices. This process integrates valuable knowledge exchange and the building of mutual capital to support local risk decision-making - scaling up from the level of the individual to the collective.