The Water and Fire project, co-led by CR&DALL Director Anna Wilson, used a range of participatory processes to mobilise local knowledges and place literacies about climate-change exacerbated hazards in South Africa’s Cape Flats. In the latest publication from the project, led by Prof Laurence Piper, the team describes how they engaged local authorities and other stakeholders with both key findings and the community co-researchers who generated them.

The paper is published in Evidence and Policy and Laurence was invited to write a post about it for the Evidence and Policy blog. We hope CR&DALL subscribers will enjoy both.

You can access the blog here: Shaping policy with climate resilience stories: Cape Town’s most affected speak for themselves

and the full paper here: Piper et al., Policy engagement as ‘empowered representation’: democratic mediation through a participatory research project on climate resilience.