Activities

ARISE’s various activities are implemented to test and evaluate resilience-building activities across three main domains. In addition to these researcher-led collaborative activities, we also support a Community of Practice, in which activities are driven by community members. The overarching aim is to generate transferable tools, methods and evidence that communities and policy makers can use in practice to strengthen resilience to coastal change.

• Citizen Science + Art activities aim to assess the role that contemporary scientific research and engaged art practice can play in understanding what levels of biodiversity knowledge communities already have and how citizen science art tools can be used to advance it. Furthermore, it seeks to examine ways in which education can foster ‘people – nature’ connection and promote nature-based resilience.
• Community Engagement activities aim to assess the impact of external engagement interventions in strengthening coastal resilience, by improving levels of trust, dialogue, meaningful participation, agency and a sense of ownership.
• Riverfly Monitoring activities aim to assess the impact that scientific monitoring could have on strengthening the community. This is quite general and needs further clarification. I added that this intervention could also look to evaluate the impact of scientific monitoring on early identification of environmental concerns and institutional responses to community-and citizen science-generated information.
• Community of Practice activities are led by our community members to address issues and concerns that we can collaboratively tackle together.