New grant for use of deliberative polling for climate adaptation issues

 

Funding awarded through the Stanford Doerr School Sustainability Accelerator

Collaborators: co-PIs Ashish Goel (MS&E), Gabrielle Wong-Parodi (ESS), Rishee Jain (CEE), and Alice Siu (CDDRL)

Public misconceptions and misunderstandings about climate risk and adaptation can pose significant barriers to developing effective climate adaptation measures. Deliberative Polling is a method that helps the public form and revise opinions, and recognize misinformation. This project will extend the functionalities of the AI-assisted Stanford Online Deliberation Platform, which is designed based on the method of Deliberative Polling®. The platform is being transformed into a user-friendly, “plug and play” tool that cities and communities worldwide can easily implement to address their regional climate adaptation challenges. The goal is for the deliberation platform to be adopted and implemented by over 100 cities or communities within two years of the project's completion.

 
GrantSarah BillingtonBuilding for wellbeing, Sarah Billington, Billington Lab, Sustainability, ashish goel, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Alice Siu, Rishee Jain, Doerr School, Sustainability Accelerator, Climate Adaptation, Affordable Housing