Enabling knowledge for disaster risk reduction in integration to climate change adaptation - Deliverable 3.3.
Deliverable 3.3. Summary of the main findings of the four living labs.
This report [resents the finding of four living labs at different scales (national, interregional, and local), which have been developed in the KNOW-4-DRR project (Enabling knowledge for disaster risk reduction). they were held in central Vietnam, Spain (Lorca) and Italy (Po River basin and Umbria Region). They all involved enquiry and consideration of how the exchange of information, and also the co-production of knowledge between various social/institutional groups might more successfully take place or, alternatively, might be hampered under differing circumstances. These are the findings from the four living laboratories:
- The recognition that multi-stakeholder collaboration improves the development of knowledge for DRR and CCA, and should be encouraged.
- Opinons and facts have been revealed that would not necessarily have come to light otherwise; for instance, they changed the perception of what to focus on in damage assessments.
- The cross stakeholder collaborative nature of these experiences is rich and is to be encouraged as good working practice to better understand perceptions of risks and measures to reduce them.
- Last but not least, there is the need to change the way risk governance is conceived, emphasizing the idea of moving towards a “multi-objective approach”.
The report is one of the deliverables of the KNOW-4-DRR project. Its aims are to analyse, assess and understand how knowledge about disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change is actually produced, managed and shared, and ultimately made use of – or indeed not used – by scientists, practitioners, decision makers, and by educational and civil society actors.