PART 1: Rethinking Climate Risk Assessment – Why Storylines Are Needed for Community Centred Engagement

Part 1 introduces the limitations of traditional, top-down climate risk assessments and prepares you to understand why narrative-based climate storylines offer a more inclusive, context-responsive approach to climate decision-making.

This introductory video positions the learner at the core tension:

Top-down climate risk assessments remain dominated by model-driven, technocratic approaches, which often fail to connect with how communities actually experience climate risk — while also marginalising local knowledge systems.

The video introduces three key challenges:

• Uncertainty in climate projections

• Failure to reflect lived experience, local context, or traditional knowledge

• Weak translation into actionable decisions

This prepares learners for the shift toward co-produced, narrative-based climate storylines as more inclusive, contextual, and decision-relevant tools.