ED51D:
Building Community Resilience Through Education and Public Engagement: Linking Theory to Practice I Posters


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Session ID#: 51515

Session Description:
Public engagement and K-12 education are important tools for increasing community resilience to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. However, significant challenges remain with respect to building knowledge systems to inform decision-making, in light of uncertainties associated with future climate projections, impacts and risks. Information and theoretical frameworks ranging from climate science to risk communication and decision-making are readily available to help guide engagement and education projects. This session highlights relevant projects anchored in this theory, illustrating best practices through case studies, project assessments, and realized outcomes. Collectively, these projects provide tested models for turning knowledge into action in order to build community resilience.
Primary Convener:  Brett F Branco, CUNY Brooklyn College, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Convener:  Jen Kretser, The Wild Center, Tupper Lake, United States
Primary Liaison:  Brett F Branco, CUNY Brooklyn College, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Chairs:  Brett F Branco, CUNY Brooklyn College, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn, NY, United States and Jen Kretser, The Wild Center, Tupper Lake, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Brett F Branco, CUNY Brooklyn College, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn, NY, 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]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Almost like Maria: A hurricane of science (442211)
Christina Bandaragoda, University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States and Collaborative RAPID Building Infrastructure to Prevent Disasters like Hurricane Maria Team
Furthering Native Community Self-Governance through Culturally-relevant STEM education (376320)
Kathleen Torso, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States and Anne Kern, University of Idaho, Curriculum and Instruction, Moscow, United States
Teaching about Food, Water and Energy in the context of Sustainability: Opportunities and connections with the InTeGrate STEP center (378871)
Cailin Huyck Orr, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, United States, Hannah H Scherer, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Cory Forbes, University of Nebraska Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, NE, United States and Monica Z Bruckner, Carleton College, SERC, Northfield, United States; Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College, Northfield, MN, United States
Collaborative Workforce Training in Geoscience and Social Science for Natural-Hazards Preparedness and Mitigation (HazPM) (455297)
Angel A Garcia Jr, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Heather A Fischer, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Steven Semken, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, United States, Elizabeth A Wentz, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, United States and Patricia Gober, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States

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