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a better way to inform community dialogue and decision-making on climate change
mitigation and adaptation. Practitioners and professional associations internation-
ally should consider enhancing conventional community planning methods along
these lines, in order to test or adapt methods such as those applied in Canada, to
address growing issues of climate change at the local level everywhere.
If visioning processes and visualisations are to be used more systematically in
planning and engagement on climate change, training and guidance are needed.
Because landscape visualisations help to engaging emotional responses, strong
ethical procedures will be key. Visualisation tools are too powerful to be ignored,
but also to be used without careful consideration of defensibility. Scientists and
practitioners should adopt better standards for using visualisation and visioning
processes to convey the science, acknowledge the uncertainties, engage stake-
holders, and ultimately help local communities to develop their own solutions to
climate change.
Acknowledgments The co-authors wish to acknowledge the following people whose work on
previous studies and papers on climate change visioning has directly contributed to this chapter:
Adelle Airey, Kristi Tatebe, Ellen Pond, Sara Muir-Owen, Sara Barron, Glenis Canete, Jon
Laurenz, Stewart Cohen, John Robinson, Jeff Carmichael, Sonia Talwar, Rob Feick, John
Danahy, and Rob Harrap. We also wish to acknowledge the vital support from our many partners
on these projects, including agency staff and stakeholders from the communities of Delta, BC;
District of North Vancouver; Kimberley, BC; Clyde River Hamlet, Nunavut; and Toronto,
Ontario.
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