When designing the Climate Resilient Islands (CRI) Programme Live & Learn wanted to develop a process communities could use to plan resilience actions that sat within the flow of complexity (without falling into the trap of trying to map everything!). The process developed by Live & Learn is innovative as it brings together a diversity of existing approaches and concepts, building a system or ‘net’ of knots and links through the activities that communities can use to explore ecosystem complexity and vulnerability in their context, and strengthen their resilience ability – especially in the context of adaptation to the increasing impacts of climate change. This fact sheet provides an overview of this approach.

The Climate Resilient Islands Programme is supported by the New Zealand Government and implemented by Live & Learn Environmental Education.