"Moving the Dial" on: Equity-Informed Approaches to the Climate Emergency

This presentation brought together perspectives on equity studies, intersectionality-based policy analysis and environmental justice to examine emergency management, planning and policy responses to extreme heat in British Columbia, with a specific focus on a collaborative research project between researchers from the Capital Regional District of Victoria and University of Victoria. This project brings an equity-informed lens to amplify the voices of those most vulnerable to the negative health impacts of extreme heat in the Capital Regional District to understand the impact of that experience as well as their recommendations to decisionmakers that will help them prepare for, respond to and recover from extreme heat events in a way that accounts for equity and intersectional experiences.

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