Mapping Oregon’s Coastal COmmunity REsilience (CORE) Perspectives -Workshop

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Overview

This presentation represents a sub-product in SSWR.402.1.2 (“Climate Impact on Ecosystem Resources that Support Coastal Community, Mitigation, Adaptation, & resilience”; Product Lead: Matt Harwell), within the Ecosystem and Community Resilience Research Area (SSWR.402), Coastal Community Resilience Output (SSWR.402.1). The presentation provides background and context for a participatory mapping workshop (breakout room) at the Hatfield Marine Science Research Summit, which aims to introduce participatory mapping methods to researchers in the coastal space, and serve as an exploratory ground truthing exercise for the related literature review (L-PESD-0034428-QP-1-0).

Impact/Purpose

About 40% of the world’s population live within 100km of the coast (approximately 9% of global land area), with 22% of those areas considered highly vulnerable to risks associated with climate change like coastal flooding and sea-level rise. Additionally, links between socio-economic inequities, environmental injustice, and social determinants of health significantly contribute to overall climate change vulnerability but are less spatially understood because of existing nuance at the community-level. Maps have long been an essential tool to spatially represent these and other coastal management issues but have traditionally been a top-down practice. More recently, there has been a surge of “participatory mapping”, a collaborative mapping effort that acknowledges the importance of public attitudes, values, perceptions, and knowledge for just and resilient community futures. This session provides an opportunity for researchers/scientists, practitioners, etc. working in the Hatfield community to lend their voice to a participatory mapping activity and a broader conversation about Oregon coastal communities’ values and perceptions. In a hands-on mapping activity for everyone, the workshop will result in a co-generated community map representing local knowledge and lived experience, and discussing how knowledge co-production can lead to increased resilience and capacity building in communities.

Citation

Farrell, D., P. Meeks, AND B. Haley. Mapping Oregon’s Coastal COmmunity REsilience (CORE) Perspectives -Workshop. Hatfield Marine Science Center Research Summit, Newport, OR, October 15 - 16, 2024.