How can foresight help to reduce vulnerability to climate-related hazards?

Description

Foresight combines participatory futures thinking with strategic analysis in a way that can be particularly useful to support the integration of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). It is a forward-looking approach to help decision-makers explore and prepare for a range of possible future scenarios, and influence and shape those futures. Systematic and participatory intelligence gathering, and medium- to long-term vision-building processes to are used to uncover a range of alternative future ideas (see FLIS Interest Group).

This policy brief, prepared within the PLACARD project, presents the barriers to using foresight in CCA and DRR, and provides insight on how foresight can support CCA and DRR, as well as suggestions on how to better make use of foresight in CCA and DRR.

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