Paper

Blueprints for Green Communities: Climate change visioning and participatory landscape planning for resilient low-carbon communities

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Abstract

Emerging 3D visualization tools and future visioning methods offer new ways to make climate change impacts and potential responses explicit, and accelerate holistic solutions. Previous research at UBC’s Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning (CALP) and elsewhere confirms that 4D visioning processes using landscape visualizations of recognizable places under alternative future conditions can improve community engagement and awareness on complex environmental and planning issues (Tress and Tress, 2002; Sheppard and Meitner, 2005; Schroth, 2007). This paper examines a visioning process (Sheppard, 2008) that applies visualization and other landscape planning methods to explore high and low-carbon futures of the affluent, sub-urban hillside community of North Vancouver with climate change, and its surrounding scenic North Shore sub region of Metro Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Keywords: greenways, communities, climate change, participatory, vancouver, planning, resilient, low-carbon, british columbia

How to Cite:

Flanders, D. N., Sheppard, S. R., Pond, E., Burch, S., Shaw, A. & Cohen, S., (2010) “Blueprints for Green Communities: Climate change visioning and participatory landscape planning for resilient low-carbon communities”, Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning 3(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/fabos.857