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Sovereignty and equity-seeking groups are poorly engaged in municipal climate action planning due to various barriers. By using digital technologies, these barriers may be partly overcome. Due to the multitude of requirements regarding accessibility and simplicity, it is challenging to use or design a single application. Instead, a combination of multiple technologies can help overcome individual accessibility barriers and generate co-creative relationships across all stakeholder groups, allowing all groups to be involved in communication according to their accessibility needs. This study identifies design principles for such digital engagement tools and technologies to improve sovereignty- and equity-seeking groups' engagement within municipal climate action planning. It also provides a toolbox for municipalities to support the design of hybrid online-offline engagement systems with digital technologies. A design science research approach is used to develop a method for analyzing engagement systems.

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Jan 17th, 12:00 AM

A Taxonomy of Engagement Barriers for Municipal Climate Action Planning: Work in Progress

Sovereignty and equity-seeking groups are poorly engaged in municipal climate action planning due to various barriers. By using digital technologies, these barriers may be partly overcome. Due to the multitude of requirements regarding accessibility and simplicity, it is challenging to use or design a single application. Instead, a combination of multiple technologies can help overcome individual accessibility barriers and generate co-creative relationships across all stakeholder groups, allowing all groups to be involved in communication according to their accessibility needs. This study identifies design principles for such digital engagement tools and technologies to improve sovereignty- and equity-seeking groups' engagement within municipal climate action planning. It also provides a toolbox for municipalities to support the design of hybrid online-offline engagement systems with digital technologies. A design science research approach is used to develop a method for analyzing engagement systems.