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T1 Creating local storylines for climate mitigation and adaptation with policymakers across Europe: a new participatory and bottom-up method
A1 López Muñoz, Paola
A1 Llases, Luis
A1 Lauer, Arthur
A1 Mencarini, Eleonora
K1 Local scenarios
K1 Participatory methods
K1 Local climate mitigation
K1 Local climate adaptation
K1 Climate change scenarios
K1 5902.08 Política del Medio Ambiente
AB While climate change is a global problem, solutions are often rooted at the local level. Conse-quently, the capacity to mitigate or adapt to climate change in local contexts is increasinglyrecognized as a crucial element in coping with it. Climate policies must be highly context-dependent, as they need to account for local needs and priorities. This article contributes tothe ongoing research on participatory climate change socioeconomic scenarios and climate-resilient development pathways by presenting a participatory methodology for creatingbottom-up, locally tailored climate adaptation and mitigation storylines. The methodologycombines a visioning technique with an analytical framework that categorizes the visioningoutcomes, facilitating scenario development while addressing real challenges to promote the co-creation of viable, site-specific solutions. We applied this methodology with policymakers fromfour case studies across Europe, revealing significant differences in how mitigation and adapta-tion are prioritized, policy actions chosen, key actors involved, and economic sectors impacted ineach case. These findings underscore the value of the method in bridging local and scientificknowledge and generating context-sensitive narratives which can be compared between them.Finally, we present a set of qualitative climate mitigation and adaptation scenarios, outliningpossible and desirable developments for each case study by 2050.
PB Elsevier
SN 0016-3287
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/76288
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/76288
LA eng
NO Futures, 2025, vol. 171, p. 103617
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 19-jul-2025