Making Sand Dunes Public: involving communities with living sea defences

“沙丘公共化”（MSDP）是一项实验性项目，旨在通过让当地公众集中参与有关沙丘管理和规划的实际决策，作为一种自然的海防形式，探索如何建立对海岸管理的信任和支持。它的前提是，当前复杂的环境问题，如与气候变化有关的问题，需要新的、更具创造性的环境决策方法。这将需要更具包容性的进程，在环境不确定时期建立理解、交流和信任的进程中纳入许多目前被忽视和闻未闻的声音、选民和证据形式。该项目是通过与诺福克郡议会（NCC） ENDURE（确保沙丘抵御气候变化）项目团队合作开发的，该项目团队出现在AHRC资助项目的后期阶段倾听气候变化：声音民主实验(面向公众的标题探测海岸变化（SCC） （AH/P000126/1 01/09/2016 - 30/06/2019）。ENDURE是一个210万欧元的欧洲资助项目，合作伙伴包括英国（诺福克）、比利时、法国和荷兰。它的目标是“把沙丘建设成适应性强的、活的海洋防御工事”。许多传统的混凝土防海堤年久失修，维护起来既昂贵又困难。自然生态系统可以提供更好、更有弹性的保护。然而，在个别社区一级与地方建立信任和合作，以发展和鼓励自然沙丘系统仍然存在问题。在北诺福克，这在两个沙丘上得到了特别的反映：海滨霍尔姆和布兰卡斯特。MSDP将与ENDURE合作制定一个研讨会计划，促进一系列当地公众和社区参与，让用户和当地公众共同制定这些关键海岸沙丘地点的未来管理战略。该项目建立在公众参与工作中制定的方法的关键方面，其中包括SCC和诺福克海岸伙伴关系（NCP），后者为诺福克海岸杰出自然美区（AONB）制定了5年法定管理计划。NCP将与MSDP和NCC合作，作为其职责范围的一部分，以增加公众对AONB规划过程的参与。在当前气候变化和不确定时期，通过地方参与环境政策和管理来建立信任已被强调为一个关键的国家问题。MSDP有助于发展相互理解、共享知识基础和共同创造解决方案，这对沿海地区建立复原力和持续灵活的适应战略至关重要。面对气候变化导致的海平面上升、洪水、淹没增加和海岸线更加不稳定，这些变得越来越重要。*在北诺福克两个沙丘地点发展和促进一系列研讨会和活动，以改善地点管理者、当地社区、游客和当地企业之间的合作；*在沙丘管理过程中纳入被忽视和闻所未闻的声音、选民和多种形式的证据，以建立理解、交流和信任；*让学校、义工、地方团体和公众参与制订、实施和承担沙丘管理计划的责任；*探索、试验及发展一种新的便利的协作工作方法，让本地学校、义工、团体、公众、环保及自然保育团体与环境及规划专业人士共同参与环保工作；

Making Sand Dunes Public (MSDP) is an experimental project exploring ways to build trust and support for coastal management by engaging and enrolling local publics centrally in practical decisions concerning the management and planning of sand dunes as a natural form of coastal defence. It starts from the premise that current complex environmental problems, such as those related to climate change, require new, more creative approaches to environmental decision making. These will necessitate more inclusionary process, incorporating many currently neglected and unheard voices, constituencies and forms of evidence within processes that build understanding, exchange and trust in times of environmental uncertainty. The project is developed through a partnership with the Norfolk County Council (NCC) ENDURE (Ensuring Dune Resilience against Climate Change) project team which emerged in the later stages of the AHRC funded project Listening to Climate Change: experiments in sonic democracy (public facing title Sounding Coastal Change (SCC) (AH/P000126/1 01/09/2016 - 30/06/2019). ENDURE is a 2.1m Euro European funded project with partners in the UK (Norfolk), Belgium, France and the Netherlands. It aims to 'look at establishing sand dunes as adaptive, living sea defences'. Many traditional concrete sea defences are old and failing and can be expensive or challenging to maintain. Natural ecosystems can provide better, more resilient protection. However, building trust and collaboration with localities at an individual community level to develop and encourage natural sand dune systems remains both problematic. In North Norfolk this is reflected at two dune sites in particular: Holme-next-the-Sea and Brancaster. MSDP will partner with ENDURE to develop a workshop programme and facilitate a series of local public and community engagements which involve users and local publics in co-producing future management strategies for these key coastal dunes sitesThe project builds on key aspects of methodology developed in public engagement work involving SCC and the Norfolk Coast Partnership (NCP) who produce the 5-year statutory management plan for the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). NCP will co-partner MSDP and NCC as part of their remit in increase public engagement in the AONB planning process. Building trust through local involvement, in environmental policy and management has been highlighted as a key national issue in the current period of climate change and uncertainty. MSDP contributes to developing the mutual understandings, shared knowledge bases and co-created solutions that are fundamental to building resilience and ongoing and flexible adaptation strategies for coastal locations. These become increasingly vital in the face of sea level rises, increased flooding, inundation and more volatile coastlines resultant from climate change.Aims and Objectives* Develop and facilitate a series of workshops and events at the two north Norfolk sand dune sites in order to improve the cooperation between site managers, the local community, visitors and local businesses; * Involve neglected and unheard voices, constituencies and multiple forms of evidence within processes that build understanding, exchange and trust in the management of the sand dunes;* Engage schools, volunteers, local groups and publics in devising, implementing and taking responsibility for dune management plans;* Explore, trial and develop a new facilitated collaborative working methodology for environmental engagement involving local schools, volunteers, groups, publics, environmental and conservation groups with environmental and planning professionals;