CASCADE-NET: Civil Agency, Society and Climate ADaptation to weather Extremes

ESRC Seminar Series

Project title: ESRC Seminar Series: CASCADE-NET (Civil Agency, Society and Climate ADaptation to weather Extremes)

Funder: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Project Leader: Professor Lindsey McEwen, UWE Bristol

Other UWE Bristol researchers:

Research partners/Collaborators:

  • Dr Tom Ball (University of Winchester, UK)
  • Dr Andrew Black (University of Dundee, UK)
  • Associate Professor Alison Cottrell (James Cook University, Australia)
  • Professor Hamish Fyfe (University of South Wales)
  • Associate Professor David King (James Cook University, Australia)
  • Dr Martina McGuinness (University of Sheffield, UK)
  • Professor Mike Wilson (Loughborough University, UK)
  • Dr Adam Corner (Climate Outreach)
  • Paul Cobbing (UK National Flood Forum)
  • Paul Hendy (Scottish Flood Forum)

Start date: June 2016

End date: June 2020

Summary

This seminar series critically examined the changing role of civil society in the Extreme Weather Adaptation Cycle.

Key outputs

The key output from the seminar series was a special edition of the Journal of Extreme Events – 9.2/3, where many of the original contributors were authors.  An editorial and twelve papers in a variety of formats were produced.

Special Issue: JOEE CASCADE-NET - Increasing civil society’s capacity to deal with changing extreme weather risk: Negotiating dichotomies in theory and practice.

An additional paper was published early in a different volume:

Website resources

Most of the eight themed seminars and one conference were recorded and lodged on the project website.

Visit the CASCADE-NET website

Key findings

“This special edition aims to distil the interdisciplinary, inter-professional and transdisciplinary discussions within the CASCADE-NET seminars, recognising the opportunities to capture and narrate a wide diversity of participant voices (cf. Goldstein et al. 2015). The objective is to share this thinking and promote wider dialogue across disciplinary and professional audiences and civil society. It distils some critical reflections from that dialogue across key themes, identifies lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and   on the key implications for future research agendas.

The set of 12 papers are stimulated by CASCADE-NET’s dialogue and in some draw directly from the workshop discussions. Over 35 network members contribute their thinking and evidence under four main headings: citizenship and participation, broadening spaces for participation, innovations in participation and mutual learning and civil agency in extreme weather and COVID-19.

The papers take a variety of formats: empirical research papers, methodological reflections, a roundtable dialogue, a policy forum, a literature review and reflective commentaries. They offer ideas and guidance to promote further discussion about possible ways forward in navigating futures for the research, policy and practice of participatory citizenship in extreme weather risk management and wider climate resilience.”

See full editorial:

Reference:

Contact

For further information on the project, please contact Professor Lindsey McEwen (lindsey.mcewen@uwe.ac.uk).