Collaborating for Climate Equity (eBook, PDF)

Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships in the Americas
Redaktion: Shandas, Vivek; Hellman, Dana

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the capacity of different stakeholders to work together build urban resilience to climate change through an equity-cantered approach to cross-sectoral collaboration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000631968
• Artikelnr.: 63986438

Autorenporträt

Vivek Shandas is a professor of climate transformation and founding director of the Sustaining Urban Places Research (SUPR) Lab at Portland State University. Professor Shandas studies the effects of urban development patterns and processes on ecosystems and social justice. He has published over 100 articles and three books, and his research has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, and dozens of other international and local media. During his spare time he revels in the mountains and waters of the Pacific Northwest with his family. Dana Hellman is an environmental social scientist and holds a PhD degree in Earth, Environment & Society. Her work addresses topics spanning climate change risk and adaptation, environmental health, resource management, and nature conservation, as well as intersections among them. She delights in making unexpected connections and synthesizing information across fields and takes an interdisciplinary approach to research and analysis, drawing upon complementary theories and practices from social and environmental sciences. Her work emphasizes themes including resilience, power/ knowledge dynamics, collaborative approaches, and (sense of) place. Dana is passionate about translating theory into practice, applying research to real-world problems, and pursuing social justice through environmental action.

Inhaltsangabe

1 An introduction to researcher-practitioner partnerships for climate
equity 2 Designing urban greenspace from the grassroots up: The 'barrio
innovation' approach 3 Envisioning future scenarios to manage pluvial
flooding in social-ecological-technological systems 4 Co-evolution of
resilience initiatives toward a resilience collaboration 5 Operational
guidelines for the identification of green infrastructure in a semiarid
city 6 Community science for the (climate) win: An equity-based framework
for understanding and acting on extreme urban heat 7 Conclusion: Common
themes, lessons learned, and next steps