A report has recently been published on, “Tools for the Understanding of Spatio-temporal Climate Scenarios in Local Planning: Kimberley (BC) Case Study.” The lead author of the study, Dr. Olaf Schroth works at the Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning (CALP) at the University of British Columbia. This group specializing in landscape visualization, environmental perception, public land management processes and sustainable landscapes.

“The research question of this explorative case study asks how multi-dimensional navigation, defined as the combination of spatial, temporal and thematic navigation, can facilitate the understanding of complex climate change impacts and adaptation and mitigation options. The results show that multi-dimensional navigation facilitated the spatio-temporal understanding of climate-related scenarios in this case study. Users successfully applied multi-dimensional navigation to select individual perspectives and to compare climate change risks over time. Particularly important was the opportunity to explore alternative scenario options which gave users a scope of action.”

The research was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF, in collaboration with the City of Kimberley, and the Columbia Basin Trust (CBT).  The full report can be downloaded here.

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