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1–10 5.7 6.5 6.7 6 0.2 6.7 10 0.2
Greenness 1–10 5.9 5.9 6.1 8 0.2 6.1 9 0.3
Groundwater 1–10 4.9 4.9 5.1 7 0.2 5.5 6 0.7
Building Year 1–10 4.4 4.8 3.4 20 -1.3 6.8 1 2.0
Air Conditioning 1–10 5.3 4.5 4.6 9 0.1 6.3 2 1.8
Parks 1–10 6.9 4.0 3.9 18 -0.1 3.5 19 -0.5
Disability 1–10 5.4 3.7 5.3 1 1.6 3.8 12 0.1
Poverty 1–10 1.8 2.1 2.7 3 0.6 2.9 4 0.8
Coastal Flooding 1–10 2.7 1.6 1.5 15 0.0 1.7 11 0.1
Public Transit 1–10 4.0 1.3 1.2 17 -0.1 1.0 17 -0.2
Vehicle
Availability
1–10 1.0 1.1 1.1 12 0.0 1.5 8 0.4
Storm water
Features
1–10 2.7 1.1 1.0 16 -0.1 1.0 15 -0.1
Housing Density 1–10 1.0 1.0 1.0 11 0.0 1.6 7 0.6
Flow
Accumulation
1–10 1.0 1.0 1.0 13 0.0 1.0 14 0.0
ICRA 20–
200
96.1 91.8 94.9 3.1 98.6 6.8
Note: Natural environment risk factors are shaded green, built environment risk factors are shaded purple, social environment risk factors are shaded orange.
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Fig 4. Homestead and Little River integrated climate risk assessment.
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RQ5: What are the most pressing issues and potential solutions for these concerns as expressed by
community members through design thinking? Do these issues and solutions vary by
community?
Our goal of design thinking is, in part, to advance from the individual concerns embodied
in the photovoice narratives to perceptions of the most pressing concerns facing the community and to imagine an ideal future. The range of perspectives and ideas provide a foundation
for the group to focus on solutions that can address multiple concerns. While the HyLo
method introduces individual experience through the photovoice process, participants often
inspire one another as they perceive other concerns they see as more pressing. While most of
the issues discussed draw from the photovoice narratives, additional topics can emerge and
resonate. For example, the issue of homeless populations and noise were raised in Little River
design thinking. In Homestead, by contrast, Covid-19 and safety received significantly more
discussion in design thinking than in photovoice, as did discussion around people and
community.
Reviewing the results of the design thinking process in Little River and Homestead, the
evolution from the narratives expressed through photovoice to action plans developed by
each design thinking group evidences the emergence of practical plans to enhance daily life.
The photovoice themes of greenness, flooding, extreme heat, storms and concern for health
and wellbeing begin to take shape in plans for greening streetscapes and planting urban gardens, while floods, heat, and storm issues are addressed through methods for safer means of
travel.
On the surface the connection between that second group of climate issues and their proposals may seem less clear, but as participants brought those larger topics into the focus of
how their daily lives are impacted, the ability to get from one place to another came to represent an important concern, especially when work, home, school and essential provisions all
require car trips. From that perspective, solutions that range from road repairs to shaded and
sheltered transit stops, with multiple modes of mobility from green sidewalks and bike lanes
to better busways and train service can be seen as a localized means of addressing climate
change.
Table 4 indicates each group’s thought journey as they move from larger issues to daily life
impacts to framing their key challenges to enhancing quality of life and identifying who would
be needed to implement their ideas. Most notably, each group ultimately landed on engaging
their own community members. While they also identified civic leaders and organizations,
between their first iterations of issues and their final conclusions on who could help, they
increasingly voiced confidence in their own powers for community transformation.
RQ6: What is the impact of our process on perceptions of community and individual capacity?
We conducted paired sample t-tests to examine changes on our variables of interest from
before to after the workshop sessions. As we have a very small sample size these results should
be seen as preliminary and interpreted as such.
Overall, we saw few significant changes, with threat perception approaching a significant
increase from pre- (M = 3.77) to post-test (M = 4.41), t(10) = -2.219, p = .051. Additionally,
Social Connectedness saw a significant increase from pre- (M = 12.50) to post-test
(M = 15.25), t(7) = -3.194, p = .015.
While we had anticipated increases in personal agency and communication competence,
and decreases in communication apprehension, the small sample size and the shift to online
sessions from in person sessions likely created its own set of communication challenges. We
are examining the protocols to make improvements for future sessions.
PLOS CLIMATE
Advancing a hyperlocal approach to community engagement in climate adaptation
PLOS Climate \| https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000041 June 8, 2022 19 / 26
Discussion
Overall, the results from our study show that participants living in two different neighborhoods in Miami-Dade County perceive and prioritize climate change risks in distinctive ways;
further, in depicting their neighborhood, they expand the suite of well-known climate stressors
(e.g., sea level rise, increased likelihood of hurricanes, higher average temperatures) to embrace
a range of local issues of concern, such as access to transport, green space, and affordable housing. These local issues were represented in participants’ individual photovoice projects; for
example, several Homestead participants included images and text about the impacts of heat
on farmworkers; whereas some Little River participants pointed to the problems of sunny day
(nuisance) flooding in parking garages and streets. As participants shared their photovoice
images with one another and the workshop facilitators, and began to characterize dominant
themes, they elaborated additional concerns which expanded beyond climate stressors. These
concerns demonstrate the challenges of competing crises, some of which are immediate and
affect day-to-day life more directly than long-term climate impacts. Further, these stories can
highlight the gap between the priorities of neighborhoods and their representative governments–a disconnect that the Hylo approach seeks to address.
Table 4. Design thinking flow.
Community
breakout
group
Design Thinking: Discover/Daily
experience
Design Thinking: Frame/leading
challenges

1–10 5.7 6.5 6.7 6 0.2 6.7 10 0.2

Greenness 1–10 5.9 5.9 6.1 8 0.2 6.1 9 0.3

Groundwater 1–10 4.9 4.9 5.1 7 0.2 5.5 6 0.7

Building Year 1–10 4.4 4.8 3.4 20 -1.3 6.8 1 2.0

Air Conditioning 1–10 5.3 4.5 4.6 9 0.1 6.3 2 1.8

Parks 1–10 6.9 4.0 3.9 18 -0.1 3.5 19 -0.5

Disability 1–10 5.4 3.7 5.3 1 1.6 3.8 12 0.1

Poverty 1–10 1.8 2.1 2.7 3 0.6 2.9 4 0.8

Coastal Flooding 1–10 2.7 1.6 1.5 15 0.0 1.7 11 0.1

Public Transit 1–10 4.0 1.3 1.2 17 -0.1 1.0 17 -0.2

Vehicle

Availability

1–10 1.0 1.1 1.1 12 0.0 1.5 8 0.4

Storm water

Features

1–10 2.7 1.1 1.0 16 -0.1 1.0 15 -0.1

Housing Density 1–10 1.0 1.0 1.0 11 0.0 1.6 7 0.6

Flow

Accumulation

1–10 1.0 1.0 1.0 13 0.0 1.0 14 0.0

ICRA 20–

200

96.1 91.8 94.9 3.1 98.6 6.8

Note: Natural environment risk factors are shaded green, built environment risk factors are shaded purple, social environment risk factors are shaded orange.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000041.t003

PLOS CLIMATE

Advancing a hyperlocal approach to community engagement in climate adaptation

PLOS Climate | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000041 June 8, 2022 17 / 26

Fig 4. Homestead and Little River integrated climate risk assessment.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000041.g004

PLOS CLIMATE

Advancing a hyperlocal approach to community engagement in climate adaptation

PLOS Climate | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000041 June 8, 2022 18 / 26

RQ5: What are the most pressing issues and potential solutions for these concerns as expressed by

community members through design thinking? Do these issues and solutions vary by

community?

Our goal of design thinking is, in part, to advance from the individual concerns embodied

in the photovoice narratives to perceptions of the most pressing concerns facing the community and to imagine an ideal future. The range of perspectives and ideas provide a foundation

for the group to focus on solutions that can address multiple concerns. While the HyLo

method introduces individual experience through the photovoice process, participants often

inspire one another as they perceive other concerns they see as more pressing. While most of

the issues discussed draw from the photovoice narratives, additional topics can emerge and

resonate. For example, the issue of homeless populations and noise were raised in Little River

design thinking. In Homestead, by contrast, Covid-19 and safety received significantly more

discussion in design thinking than in photovoice, as did discussion around people and

community.

Reviewing the results of the design thinking process in Little River and Homestead, the

evolution from the narratives expressed through photovoice to action plans developed by

each design thinking group evidences the emergence of practical plans to enhance daily life.

The photovoice themes of greenness, flooding, extreme heat, storms and concern for health

and wellbeing begin to take shape in plans for greening streetscapes and planting urban gardens, while floods, heat, and storm issues are addressed through methods for safer means of

travel.

On the surface the connection between that second group of climate issues and their proposals may seem less clear, but as participants brought those larger topics into the focus of

how their daily lives are impacted, the ability to get from one place to another came to represent an important concern, especially when work, home, school and essential provisions all

require car trips. From that perspective, solutions that range from road repairs to shaded and

sheltered transit stops, with multiple modes of mobility from green sidewalks and bike lanes

to better busways and train service can be seen as a localized means of addressing climate

change.

Table 4 indicates each group’s thought journey as they move from larger issues to daily life

impacts to framing their key challenges to enhancing quality of life and identifying who would

be needed to implement their ideas. Most notably, each group ultimately landed on engaging

their own community members. While they also identified civic leaders and organizations,

between their first iterations of issues and their final conclusions on who could help, they

increasingly voiced confidence in their own powers for community transformation.

RQ6: What is the impact of our process on perceptions of community and individual capacity?

We conducted paired sample t-tests to examine changes on our variables of interest from

before to after the workshop sessions. As we have a very small sample size these results should

be seen as preliminary and interpreted as such.

Overall, we saw few significant changes, with threat perception approaching a significant

increase from pre- (M = 3.77) to post-test (M = 4.41), t(10) = -2.219, p = .051. Additionally,

Social Connectedness saw a significant increase from pre- (M = 12.50) to post-test

(M = 15.25), t(7) = -3.194, p = .015.

While we had anticipated increases in personal agency and communication competence,

and decreases in communication apprehension, the small sample size and the shift to online

sessions from in person sessions likely created its own set of communication challenges. We

are examining the protocols to make improvements for future sessions.

PLOS CLIMATE

Advancing a hyperlocal approach to community engagement in climate adaptation

PLOS Climate | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000041 June 8, 2022 19 / 26

Discussion

Overall, the results from our study show that participants living in two different neighborhoods in Miami-Dade County perceive and prioritize climate change risks in distinctive ways;

further, in depicting their neighborhood, they expand the suite of well-known climate stressors

(e.g., sea level rise, increased likelihood of hurricanes, higher average temperatures) to embrace

a range of local issues of concern, such as access to transport, green space, and affordable housing. These local issues were represented in participants’ individual photovoice projects; for

example, several Homestead participants included images and text about the impacts of heat

on farmworkers; whereas some Little River participants pointed to the problems of sunny day

(nuisance) flooding in parking garages and streets. As participants shared their photovoice

images with one another and the workshop facilitators, and began to characterize dominant

themes, they elaborated additional concerns which expanded beyond climate stressors. These

concerns demonstrate the challenges of competing crises, some of which are immediate and

affect day-to-day life more directly than long-term climate impacts. Further, these stories can

highlight the gap between the priorities of neighborhoods and their representative governments–a disconnect that the Hylo approach seeks to address.

Table 4. Design thinking flow.

Community

breakout

group

Design Thinking: Discover/Daily

experience

Design Thinking: Frame/leading

challenges