Moving the Dial On: Equity-Informed Approaches to the Climate Emergency

Community-Based Research Canada presents “Moving the Dial”: the 2023 E-Learning series. This series will highlight action-oriented community-based research that is ‘moving the dial’ on today’s pressing societal challenges. An important hallmark of community-based research, taking an action-orientated and impactful approach, means research partnerships mobilizing knowledge and mobilizing communities towards positive societal change. The research projects highlighted within this series demonstrate impact of community-based research. You will hear about research partnerships that facilitated actions improving societal conditions, including changes in policies, systems, organizations, and communities where everyone is supported and belongs.

This presentation will bring 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.