Making Sand Dunes Public: involving communities with living sea defences

使沙丘公共化是一个实验性项目，探讨如何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，建立对沿海管理的信任和支持，将沙丘作为一种自然的海岸防御形式。它的出发点是，当前复杂的环境问题，如与气候变化有关的问题，需要采取新的、更具创造性的方法来进行环境决策。这将需要一个更具包容性的进程，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所未闻的声音、支持者和证据形式。该项目是通过与诺福克县理事会（NCC）ENDURE（确保沙丘抵御气候变化）项目团队的合作伙伴关系开发的，该项目团队出现在AHRC资助的项目“倾听气候变化：声音民主实验”的后期阶段（面向公众的标题“声音海岸变化”（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。它的目的是“把沙丘建成适应性强的、有生命力的海洋防御工事”。许多传统的混凝土海上防御系统已经陈旧，并且正在失效，维护起来可能很昂贵或具有挑战性。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，这两方面仍然存在问题。在北诺福克，这一点在两个沙丘上得到了特别的反映：霍姆-滨海和布兰卡斯特。MSDP将与ENDURE合作开发一个研讨会计划，并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主要沿海沙丘的未来管理战略。该项目建立在SCC和诺福克海岸伙伴关系（NCP）参与的公众参与工作中开发的方法的关键方面，NCP制定了5-诺福克海岸杰出自然美景区（AONB）的一年法定管理计划。NCP将与MSDP和NCC合作，作为其职权范围的一部分，增加公众对AONB规划过程的参与。通过地方参与建立对环境政策和管理的信任已被强调为当前气候变化和不确定时期的一个关键国家问题。MSDP有助于发展相互理解，共享知识基础和共同创造的解决方案，这对于建立沿海地区的复原力和持续灵活的适应战略至关重要。* 在北诺福克两个沙丘地点举办和促进一系列讲习班和活动，以改善地点管理人员、当地社区、游客和当地企业之间的合作;* 在沙丘管理方面建立理解、交流和信任的进程中，吸收被忽视和未被听到的声音、支持者和多种形式的证据;* 让学校、志愿者、地方团体和公众参与沙丘管理计划的设计、实施和责任;* 探索、试验和发展一种新的促进合作的工作方法，让当地学校、志愿者、团体、公众、环境和保护团体与环境和规划专业人员一起参与环境活动;

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;