The approach is also central to a pathway along which some delegates were considering a form of "superresilience" through building societal and institutional integrity, well-being, and a quality of life that would offset future disaster risk.
Mobilising greater levels of private finance through local citizen investment in low-carbon technologies can help bridge the capital shortfall to meeting climate objectives, while also building societal support for the low-carbon transition.
Building societal trust is likely to begin to tackle corrupt use of such schemes.
However, respondents reported (see Table 2 and socio-demographic profile) living alone, being members of truncated networks with restricted opportunities for societal participation and building social capital.
Therefore, at a societal level, green buildings can contribute substantial energy savings, but further work needs to be done to define green building rating schemes to ensure more consistent success at the individual building level.
We should focus our energies on building general societal resilience (of which efforts to address inequality are a part), but more specifically, the first priority needs to be fighting and preparing for climate change.
Societal challenges, such as building inclusive, innovative and reflective societies within the resource constraints of a 2 °C planet, are interconnected and cut across multiple sectors, levels of policy, and areas of society.
I work for the Climate Outreach and Information Network (COIN), a UK-based charity which focuses on building wider societal support for climate change.
In addition to the research presented in this article, the societal component of the Building with Nature program included the feasibility of local decision-making arenas (Smit 2011), the role of knowledge, and uncertainty in decision-making (van den Hoek et al. 2012, van den Hoek 2014, Janssen et al. 2014), and innovative project arrangements (Korbee and van Tatenhove 2013, Korbee et al. 2014).
There are emotional genes and societal chromosomes as well, the building blocks of who we are and how and what we came to be.
