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Fig. 7.5 Semi-realistic landscape visualization of the community of Kimberley showing high
(orange) and moderate (cream) susceptibility to Pine Beetle infestation in the surrounding
forested watershed due to warmer winters, with potential increased flood hazard (yellow circles)
in town. Credit O. Schroth, CALP, UBC. Mountain Pine Beetle Data source: ILMB, BC
Government. Background Image: 2009 Google Earth. Image 2009 Province of British
Columbia; Image 2009 Digital Globe; Image 2009 Terra Metrics. Reproduced from
Sheppard ( 2012 ) ''Visualizing Climate Change'', Earthscan/Routledge
visualizations raised awareness and facilitated understanding of climate change
impacts and mitigation/adaptation options. Rankings of the various kinds of
visualizations in order of importance to users (if involved in commenting on a
planning proposal) revealed a bi-modal distribution for Google Earth, where the
virtual globe was ranked first 16 times and ranked last 11 times, suggesting that
some people really like the interactive tools whereas others preferred the more
static media. Overall, the stakeholder workshops produced more than 70 rec-
ommendations for climate change mitigation and adaptation, some of which have
since been implemented in policy (Schroth et al. 2011 ).
Based on the Kimberley project and the earlier Metro Vancouver projects,
CALP produced a Guidance Manual on the LCCV process and tools (Pond et al.
2010 ) for interested practitioners. This was used during the next series of pro-
jects in a comparative national study (Pond et al. 2012 ). Over four years,
researchers at the Universities of British Columbia, Toronto, Waterloo, and
Calgary have collaborated with local partners to adapt LCCV processes to other
contexts—from downtown Toronto, to a regional watershed in Alberta, to a
Hamlet in Nunavut.
 
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