Stories and imaginaries of resilience and progress in a changing climate
How can our understanding of people’s aspirations of ‘a good life’ inform climate resilient development pathways?
Listening and learning with communities
Climate resilient development has emerged as a new response to integrating adaptation, mitigation, and sustainable development agendas. However, such framing relies on notions of resilience and low carbon development that are mostly informed by narratives in high income economies that have greater resources for transformational change.
We listened and learned with disaster-affected communities in the Philippines to understand what this looks like on the ground.
Ahon (meaning ‘to rise up’) explores people’s visions of a good life in order to produce a values-based narrative of climate resilient development and set out ways to track progress and articulate aspirational goals based on lived realities and local knowledge systems.
Retelling stories of hope, strength, and aspirations
We worked with artists and local storytellers and drew inspiration from our research findings to retell people’s stories in storybooks.
Facilitating dialogue and co-design of solutions
By working closely with the local communities and hosting public engagement events, we facilitated discussions between the academe, policy, and civil society. Our aim is to help improve policy and practice on climate resilient development.
