ED53C:
Education and Public Engagement Are Key to Community Resilience Efforts I Posters

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Session ID#: 25460

Session Description:
Building communities resilient to climate change, extreme weather events and other environmental hazards has become an important way Earth science information is applied at state and city levels. Beyond down-scaled data, scientifically informed policy decisions, and decision makers who understand the issues, these communities also need well-informed and engaged members of the public. The third National Climate Assessment highlighted that strengthening connections between community resilience initiatives and education efforts are key to ensuring that local communities make informed decisions to prepare for, and recover from significant environmental hazards and stresses with minimum damage to social wellbeing, the economy, and the environment. This session will explore new approaches for how K-12 and informal education and public engagement support development and successful implementation of local government resilience or climate adaptation plans. Discussion will include lessons learned from adaptation and use of decision-support tools and data products in K-12 and informal education environments.
Primary Convener:  Sarah E Schoedinger, NOAA Washington DC, Office of Education, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  Carrie McDougall, NOAA Washington DC, Office of Education, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Carrie McDougall, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and Sarah E Schoedinger, NOAA Office of Education, Asheville, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sarah E Schoedinger, NOAA Office of Education, Asheville, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0805 Elementary and secondary education [EDUCATION]
0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
4327 Resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6334 Regional planning [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Preparing Norfolk Area Students for America's Second Highest Sea Level Rise (235274)
Robin Rene' Dunbar, Elizabeth River Project, Portsmouth, VA, United States
Convening Young Leaders for Climate Resilience in New York State (274502)
Jen Kretser, The Wild Center, Tupper Lake, United States
What do decision makers learn from public forums on climate-related hazards and resilience? (292798)
Nicholas Weller, PhD1, Mahmud Farooque1 and David Sittenfeld2, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Museum of Science, Boston, MA, United States
Education as a key objective of the interdisciplinary volcanic risk mitigation strategy VESUVIUS PENTALOGUE for developing resilient and sustainable areas around Vesuvius (294554)
Flavio Dobran and Annamaria Imperatrice, GVES, Naples, Italy

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