Paula Blackett
Biographic Data
| ID | 174466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula Blackett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula |
| FAMILY NAME | Blackett |
| SIGNATURE | BLACKETT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7399-7727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Values, rules, and knowledge: Understanding and enabling land use change decisions as adaptation to climate change
Changing productive land use can be a transformational adaptation strategy to reduce climate risk and enable new opportunities for farmers and growers. Such decisions, however, are complicated by uncertainty, long lead times, and substantial capital investment. These individual and collective choices are shaped by interactions between values, rules, and knowledge (VRK), which together define the decision-making contexts that enable or constrain l…
‘That still haunts me a little bit’: Decision-makers and information providers' experiences of recurring flood events
Those working in emergency hazard forecasting and response management play essential roles in reducing risk from extreme weather events and yet the lived, emotional experiences of these important groups is understudied. We interviewed information providers and decision-makers about their lived experiences of providing emergency response across three floods that took place over seven months in a rural community in Aotearoa New Zealand. Research pa…
Why do we argue about risk? The invisibility of worldviews in marine decision-making
The paper asks “why are we always arguing about risk?” It explores what drives risk perception in decision-making processes in Aotearoa New Zealand’s marine environment. The research’s holistic framing shows that the prevailing concern with risk and uncertainty (RU) issues in government and managerial settings deflects attention from and hides the background influences of worldviews. After introducing the invisibilities around RU and outlining wo…
Kia aiō ngā ngaru, kia hora te marino: Smoothing the waters in natural resource management to mitigate risk and uncertainty
Aotearoa (New Zealand) is undertaking reforms in natural resource management, and there are promising signals that Indigenous perspectives will be included alongside science for decision-making. Any resource management system is underpinned by worldviews, from which values stem and then risk and uncertainty derive. Māori (the Indigenous peoples of New Zealand) and Eurocentric notions of risk and uncertainty are fundamentally different because kno…
Marae-opoly: Supporting localised Māori climate adaptation decisions with serious games in Aotearoa New Zealand
Far from being passive and/or static victims of climate change, indigenous peoples are hybridizing knowledge systems, and challenging and negotiating new environmental and social realities to develop their own adaptation options within their own registers of what is place and culture appropriate. Our paper seeks to demonstrate how we, as guests on Māori land, were able to develop a partnership with a Māori community facing difficult adaptation de…
Principles and process for developing participatory adaptation pathways in the primary industries
Adaptation pathways is an approach to identify, assess, and sequence climate change adaptation options over time, linking decisions to critical signals and triggers derived from scenarios of future conditions. However, conceptual differences in their development can hinder methodological advance and create a disconnect between those applying pathways approaches and the wider community of practitioners undertaking vulnerability, impacts, and adapt…
Formulating a 100-year strategy for managing coastal hazard risk in a changing climate: Lessons learned from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand
What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes
Le Heron, E., W. Allen, R. Le Heron, M. J. Logie, B. Glavovic, A. Greenaway, D. Hikuroa, K. K. Davies, and P. Blackett. 2021. What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes. Ecology and Society 26(1):29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12211-260129
Climate adaptation pathways for agriculture: Insights from a participatory process
Revealing power dynamics and staging conflicts in agricultural system transitions: Case studies of innovation platforms in New Zealand
Innovation platforms (IPs) that support agricultural innovation to enable transition processes towards more sustainable agriculture provide a space where conflicts of interest among actors in the existing agricultural system (the so called incumbent regime) may play out. Sometimes these conflicts over how actors will benefit from an action are not revealed until actors are brought together. However, a barrier to change occurs when IP actors use t…
Towards a heuristic for assessing adaptation knowledge: Impacts, implications, decisions and actions
Climate change poses a significant challenge to primary industries and adaptation will be required to reduce detrimental impacts and realise opportunities. Despite the breadth of information to support adaptation planning however, knowledge is fragmented, obscuring information needs, hampering strategic planning and constraining decision-making capacities. In this letter, we present and apply the Adaptation Knowledge Cycle (AKC), a heuristic for …
Adaptive and interactive climate futures: Systematic review of ‘serious games’ for engagement and decision-making
Climate change is already having adverse impacts on ecosystems, communities and economic activities through higher temperatures, prolonged droughts, and more frequent extremes. However, a gap remains between public understanding, scientific knowledge about climate change, and changes in behaviour to effect adaptation. 'Serious games'-games used for purposes other than entertainment-are one way to reduce this adaptation deficit by enhancing opport…
National guidance for adapting to coastal hazards and sea-level rise: Anticipating change, when and how to change pathway
Reflexive monitoring in New Zealand: Evaluation lessons in supporting transformative change
An Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) approach is currently being used to determine whether the adoption of agricultural innovations in New Zealand can be enhanced. Important elements of the innovation systems approach include the participatory application of a co-innovation process, for example inclusiveness and a focus on transformative change, to remove barriers in the creation and uptake of sustainable innovations. Alongside AIS, novel eval…
Revealing power dynamics and staging conflicts in agricultural system transitions: Case studies of innovation platforms in New Zealand
Innovation platforms (IPs) that support agricultural innovation to enable transition processes towards more sustainable agriculture provide a space where conflicts of interest among actors in the existing agricultural system (the so called incumbent regime) may play out. Sometimes these conflicts over how actors will benefit from an action are not revealed until actors are brought together. However, a barrier to change occurs when IP actors use t…
National guidance for adapting to coastal hazards and sea-level rise: Anticipating change, when and how to change pathway
Reflexive monitoring in New Zealand: Evaluation lessons in supporting transformative change
An Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) approach is currently being used to determine whether the adoption of agricultural innovations in New Zealand can be enhanced. Important elements of the innovation systems approach include the participatory application of a co-innovation process, for example inclusiveness and a focus on transformative change, to remove barriers in the creation and uptake of sustainable innovations. Alongside AIS, novel eval…
Climate adaptation pathways for agriculture: Insights from a participatory process
Formulating a 100-year strategy for managing coastal hazard risk in a changing climate: Lessons learned from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand
Reflexive monitoring in New Zealand: Evaluation lessons in supporting transformative change
An Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) approach is currently being used to determine whether the adoption of agricultural innovations in New Zealand can be enhanced. Important elements of the innovation systems approach include the participatory application of a co-innovation process, for example inclusiveness and a focus on transformative change, to remove barriers in the creation and uptake of sustainable innovations. Alongside AIS, novel eval…
Adaptive and interactive climate futures: Systematic review of ‘serious games’ for engagement and decision-making
Climate change is already having adverse impacts on ecosystems, communities and economic activities through higher temperatures, prolonged droughts, and more frequent extremes. However, a gap remains between public understanding, scientific knowledge about climate change, and changes in behaviour to effect adaptation. 'Serious games'-games used for purposes other than entertainment-are one way to reduce this adaptation deficit by enhancing opport…
National guidance for adapting to coastal hazards and sea-level rise: Anticipating change, when and how to change pathway
Towards a heuristic for assessing adaptation knowledge: Impacts, implications, decisions and actions
Climate change poses a significant challenge to primary industries and adaptation will be required to reduce detrimental impacts and realise opportunities. Despite the breadth of information to support adaptation planning however, knowledge is fragmented, obscuring information needs, hampering strategic planning and constraining decision-making capacities. In this letter, we present and apply the Adaptation Knowledge Cycle (AKC), a heuristic for …
Climate adaptation pathways for agriculture: Insights from a participatory process
Revealing power dynamics and staging conflicts in agricultural system transitions: Case studies of innovation platforms in New Zealand
Innovation platforms (IPs) that support agricultural innovation to enable transition processes towards more sustainable agriculture provide a space where conflicts of interest among actors in the existing agricultural system (the so called incumbent regime) may play out. Sometimes these conflicts over how actors will benefit from an action are not revealed until actors are brought together. However, a barrier to change occurs when IP actors use t…
Principles and process for developing participatory adaptation pathways in the primary industries
Adaptation pathways is an approach to identify, assess, and sequence climate change adaptation options over time, linking decisions to critical signals and triggers derived from scenarios of future conditions. However, conceptual differences in their development can hinder methodological advance and create a disconnect between those applying pathways approaches and the wider community of practitioners undertaking vulnerability, impacts, and adapt…
Formulating a 100-year strategy for managing coastal hazard risk in a changing climate: Lessons learned from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand
What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes
Le Heron, E., W. Allen, R. Le Heron, M. J. Logie, B. Glavovic, A. Greenaway, D. Hikuroa, K. K. Davies, and P. Blackett. 2021. What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes. Ecology and Society 26(1):29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12211-260129
Marae-opoly: Supporting localised Māori climate adaptation decisions with serious games in Aotearoa New Zealand
Far from being passive and/or static victims of climate change, indigenous peoples are hybridizing knowledge systems, and challenging and negotiating new environmental and social realities to develop their own adaptation options within their own registers of what is place and culture appropriate. Our paper seeks to demonstrate how we, as guests on Māori land, were able to develop a partnership with a Māori community facing difficult adaptation de…
Kia aiō ngā ngaru, kia hora te marino: Smoothing the waters in natural resource management to mitigate risk and uncertainty
Aotearoa (New Zealand) is undertaking reforms in natural resource management, and there are promising signals that Indigenous perspectives will be included alongside science for decision-making. Any resource management system is underpinned by worldviews, from which values stem and then risk and uncertainty derive. Māori (the Indigenous peoples of New Zealand) and Eurocentric notions of risk and uncertainty are fundamentally different because kno…
Why do we argue about risk? The invisibility of worldviews in marine decision-making
The paper asks “why are we always arguing about risk?” It explores what drives risk perception in decision-making processes in Aotearoa New Zealand’s marine environment. The research’s holistic framing shows that the prevailing concern with risk and uncertainty (RU) issues in government and managerial settings deflects attention from and hides the background influences of worldviews. After introducing the invisibilities around RU and outlining wo…
‘That still haunts me a little bit’: Decision-makers and information providers' experiences of recurring flood events
Those working in emergency hazard forecasting and response management play essential roles in reducing risk from extreme weather events and yet the lived, emotional experiences of these important groups is understudied. We interviewed information providers and decision-makers about their lived experiences of providing emergency response across three floods that took place over seven months in a rural community in Aotearoa New Zealand. Research pa…
Values, rules, and knowledge: Understanding and enabling land use change decisions as adaptation to climate change
Changing productive land use can be a transformational adaptation strategy to reduce climate risk and enable new opportunities for farmers and growers. Such decisions, however, are complicated by uncertainty, long lead times, and substantial capital investment. These individual and collective choices are shaped by interactions between values, rules, and knowledge (VRK), which together define the decision-making contexts that enable or constrain l…
Business (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Climate change (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (5 works) · Adaptation (eye (4 works)