CBRCanada E-Learning: “A Climate CARE Assembly: Co-Creating Equity-Informed Emergency Planning and Policy” – Jun 12, 2025

Session Description

June E-Learning Event, hosted by Community-Based Research Canada 

Floods, droughts, storms, and heat waves are all on the rise as extreme weather events due to climate change becoming commonplace. Such crises have caught many governments off-guard, resulting in significant negative policy outcomes.

Presenters at this event will share their mixed methods study that asks: what barriers prevent access to public space for vulnerable communities during extreme weather events and how can they be addressed? The study also explored how CARE Assemblies (Community Actions and Responses to Extreme weather events), spaces for democratic deliberation that directly engages voices, perspectives, and knowledges of those most affected by a particular policy problem, can hold space for the co-creation of policy-oriented outputs for decision making that position policy-makers as ‘policy listeners’.

This design justice-informed research aims to support governing bodies and service providers to better understand the lived-experiences of extreme weather events and design better policies and programs to help vulnerable residents prepare for, respond to and recover from these events.

Presenters:

• Sarah Marie Wiebe, Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria
• Erin Nuckols, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria
• Kristopher Peters, First Nations’ Emergency Services Society

This is part of CBRCanada’s e-Learning series “Community-Based Research Responding to Crises Series”.