Risk-Tandem: A Novel Framework for Combining Risk Governance and Knowledge Co-production for integrating disaster risk management, climate change adaptation and local knowledges.

This poster demonstrates the Risk-Tandem framework, a methodology guiding the implementation of knowledge co-production in risk governance contexts. Currently applied and refined within the DIRECTED project, it guides and enables the integration of disaster risk management and climate change adaptation through the transdisciplinary co-production of locally led risk governance methodologies and approaches.

The Framework seeks to promote collaboration across disciplines and scales of governance to 1) support the integration of climate change considerations into disaster risk management practice; 2) improve the interoperability and usability of risk information through the co-production of information products (between users and modellers), and; 3) improve collaboration between practitioners, academics, risk modellers and the public through capacity development and engagement, to enable the co-creation of risk governance solutions that bridge science and contextual needs in a Real-World Lab (RWL) setting.

The poster will detail the framework’s conceptual and theoretical underpinning, its current refinement and redevelopment through DIRECTED’s RWLs, and the approach to capacity development for co-production. It will also explore the risk governance “solutions” and approaches already co-created with local stakeholders, to demonstrate how the process has responded to needs of the project’s implementation contexts.