Climate change is expected to bring along remarkable changes in both natural environment and societies. Climate change strategies are currently being made all over the world so that nations, regions, municipalities, towns, villages, companies and citizens could adapt to the projected effects of climate change.

Climate change belongs to the increasing group of environmental problems that are understood as a result of developed measurement devices and scientific knowledge. Currently natural sciences seem to have the greatest power in defining climate change and its effects. But what kind of knowledge is needed for anticipating the changes in the local lifeworlds? How can different types of knowledge be gained for and then used in regional climate change strategy planning processes for anticipating changes in natural and social environments?

This presentation discusses a regional climate change strategy from the Arctic area as a futures oriented and highly political planning process, with emphasis on conceptual discussion on climate change and strategic planning as consisting of Latournian translations and black boxes. Whether actually happening or not, climate change has become an actant that has the power to make changes in the current stabilized actor-networks. The changes in the actor-networks challenge the stability of the “black boxes” and thus the mechanisms of the current uses of different modes of knowledge can be studied.