This slide deck was designed to initiate a conversation with participants of Vancouver ChangeCamp '09 on how we can use social media tools to engage in adaptive strategies to climate change in British Columbia and Canada.

1. Coordinating Adaptation to Climate Change through Social Media Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega (Social media) http://hummingbird604.com - @hummingbird604 (Environmental/Public Policy) http://www.raulpacheco.org - @raulpacheco Vancouver ChangeCamp, June 20th, 2009

2. What would happen to us if everybody thought this way? http://www.hcn.org/allimages/1998/nov23/graphics/981123.011.gif

7. Source: GEO-4

8. Source: GEO-4

9. Water stress indicators (W/A) Source: World Water Council. Available at: http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/typo3temp/pics/a4aba79626.jpg

10. Ok,climate change is here… what are we doing/what can we do about it? Well... participate in the design of policy options to adapt to climate change! http://www.inklinepress.com/beast/do-nothing.gif

13. Credit and source: http://www.fredcavazza.net/2008/06/09/social-media-landscape/

14. Social change Public policy goals Social media Participation Source: Pacheco-Vega (2009)

16. Source: Arnstein (1969) Arnstein’s Citizen Participation Ladder Manipulation Therapy Information Consultation Placating Alliances Delegated power Citizen control Degrees of citizen power Degrees of maintenance Degrees of non-participation Increasing citizen participation

17. 8 public participation processes (Rowe & Frewer 2000, 2004) Canadian examples Referenda Provincial referendum on electoral reform in British Columbia (2005) Public hearings/inquiry Expansion of wastewater treatment plant in Annacis Island Public opinion/surveys Support for/against NAFTA (1990-1992) Negotiated rule-making Whitehorse Mining Initiative –mineral policy (1992) Consensus conference Salmon aquaculture in British Columbia (2007) Citizen jury/panel Health Canada process on xenotransplantation (Einsiedel 2002) Citizen/public advisory committees Urban development in Metro Vancouver (2009) Focus groups Global overfishing, organized by DFO (2005)

20. GEO-4 Options for climate change