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- 1. Philip Berke, Director, Institute of Sustainable Coastal Communities Finding Justice in the Low-Carbon Transition Symposium University of Kansas April 28, 2016
- 2. Global Environmental Justice Challenges Next 100 million: Where will they go? More diverse population: Conflict or cooperation? Ecosystem decline Greenhouse gas emissions Extreme event threats Unjust impacts
- 3. Vision: • Transformative research: What is future exposure due to triple threat? What is future social, environmental and economic vulnerability? What factors influence adaptive capacity and better planning? • Community Engagement: Foster citizen science and test participatory models. • High Impact Service Learning: Create workshops, studios, and capstones. Resilience and Climate Change Cooperative Project (R3CP)
- 4. An Interdisciplinary research group: -20 faculty -10 grad students -30 undergrads
- 5. Houston: A Living Laboratory Hurricane Ike Path through the Houston Ship Channel A common occurrence in Houston
- 6. What & who will be affected? Social vulnerability
- 7. R3CP Investigators: over $2 million • NSF Partnership in International Research and Education: US/Holland, $200k award to TAMU-CS • Texas Sea Grant: $300k, Risk Perception and Communication • National Institute of Science and Technology: $1.2 million, Center for Excellence in Community Resilience. • Department of Homeland Security: $600K, Coastal Resilience Center for Excellence • In preparation: Two NSF proposals and one proposal to Gulf Research Program
- 8. Vision: • Transformative research: What is future exposure due to triple threat? What is future social, environmental and economic vulnerability? What factors influence adaptive capacity and better planning? • Community Engagement: Foster citizen science and test participatory models. • High Impact Service Learning: Create workshops, studios, and capstones. Resilience and Climate Change Cooperative Project (R3CP)
- 9. Community engagement and service learning as cornerstone Director | John Cooper Community concerns
- 10. Connecting to community organizers
- 12. Furr H.S. | Green Institute with Ag program Teachers | David Salazar, Juan Elizondo
- 13. Connecting to university resources
- 14. 1 | Mapping Pooling & Ponding Water
- 15. 1 | Mapping Pooling & Ponding Water
- 16. 2 | Infrastructure Quality Survey
- 17. 2 | Infrastrucutre Quality Survey
- 18. 3 | Water Sampling
- 19. 3 | Public Health Survey • Interviewed members of the community to acquire their health data and make sure we are addressing the concerns of the community.
- 20. Vision: • Transformative research: What is future exposure due to triple threat? What is future social, environmental and economic vulnerability? What factors influence adaptive capacity and better planning? • Community Engagement: Foster citizen science and test participatory models. • High Impact Service Learning: Create workshops, studios, and capstones. Resilience and Climate Change Cooperative Project (R3CP)
- 21. Landscape Architecture Mitigation Strategies
- 22. “Grey to Green” TX-ASLA ‘Honor Award’ and ‘Merit Award’
- 23. Next Steps
- 24. Keeping the relationships • Creating Aggies • Open Lab @ High School
- 25. Translating R3CP to the Environmental Grand Challenge at Texas A&M Strategies • Coordinate existing research strengths and make strategic investments. • Develop an engagement program that translates research to action. • Enhance and expand experiential education. Source: TAMU Grand Challenge: Natural and Built Environments (2013)
- 26. Environmental Grand Challenge: Administrative Structure LeadLead Lead Lead Global Grand Challenge Coordinator: Berke Climate ChangeBiodiversity Vice Provost: Benedik Provost & Executive VP: Watson Administrative Steering Committee Faculty Advisory Committee Project Manager Engagement Coordinator Health and Community Resilience Other
Editor's Notes
- Living lab serves to test major principles. The RCCCP creates a fundamentally different way to identify and tackle critical disaster resiliency and climate change challenges that threaten coastal cities around the world and aims to achieve 3 objectives:
- In 2014, a group of interdisciplinary researchers, led by Phil Berke began exploring the ‘triple threat’ of inland flooding, hurricane surge, and sea level rise on coastal communities. There aren’t models out there and they wondered how different hydrologic system would react. [image of team of researchers] [image of triple threat]
- Hurricane surge modelers, hydrologists, and engineers identified watersheds that would be susceptible to this. They decided Houston would make an excellent pilot study because of its size, economy, diverse population, triple threat exposure, and the fact that there is no planning They settled on evaluated Sims Bayou watershed in Houston [image of Sims Bayou Watershed] So the climatologists began taking global climate models and determining the implications for this watershed. [image of climate models]
- And a whole host of other disciplines got involved: Epidemiologists, public policy analysts, sociologists, urban planners, landscape architects, All questions leading to: What will be affected? Who will be affected? They identified and mapped these physically and socially vulnerable areas (results)
- Living lab serves to test major principles. The RCCCP creates a fundamentally different way to identify and tackle critical disaster resiliency and climate change challenges that threaten coastal cities around the world and aims to achieve 3 objectives:
- Decided that community engagement was needed: To understand the issues on the ground, which would ultimately inform research questions To provide students with high-impact service learning experiences So they brought in Texas Target Communities—our director, John Cooper began reaching out to community organizers…folks who were already on the ground that could connect us with community members
- We were introduced to t.e.j.a.s. – Juan Parras (who just received Sierra Club’s Robert Bullard Environemental Justice Award) and Yudith Nieto Tejas is an EJ …. They care about ej throughout the world, but in particular they are fighting for communities in Houston, in particular the Manchester/Magnolia Park/Harrisburg super neighborhood of Houston (which is partially within the Sims Bayou watershed---our study area).
- Map of Manchester within watershed Demographics Refineries
- Tejas, then introduced us to Furr HS, a local school which is already on the ground finding ways to improve the community About Green Institute and green ambassadors Award
- Tejas came to our Sustainability Day lecture and screening of Derrick Evans fillm. We invited the Green Ambassadors to visit campus
- PGIS Flooding May floods/fatalities Rurban bc of houston’s no planning andn developers chosing not to invest in infrastructure
- Using apps to collect points after rain events---currently we’ve been able to get three data collection days with the Green Ambassadors
- Infrastructure survey We wanted to know the type and quality of the infrastructure in place Using app
- Some of the questions on the survey include….
- Water Sampling of pooling and standing water to determine if heavy metals exist
- Public health survey –90% response rate because of green amabassadors Lots of concern with nearby refineries, concern for high rates of cancer, infertility, asthma, etc.
- Living lab serves to test major principles. The RCCCP creates a fundamentally different way to identify and tackle critical disaster resiliency and climate change challenges that threaten coastal cities around the world and aims to achieve 3 objectives:
- Landscape architecture studio developing conceptual design to mitigate flooding and the community concerns of air and water quality
- Some have worried about gentrification in the past, but now they are convinced that will never happen because of poor air and water quality. So they what to figure out ways to improve community TX_ASLA two awards from projects!
- Next steps— we received an EPA grant working with tejas to continue the data collection in the community. We plan for the green ambassadors to train community members; we will have several community meetings and workshops to discuss the data found and possible ways to address it
- Keeping the relationships: David Salazar has applied to the master of urban planning program our dean and High School principal will meet to discuss the idea of establishing and Open Lab at the high school where college students would spend the semester continuing data collection and projects for long-term relationship with community partners
- Because of the work of the interdisciplinary researchers 20 faculty members, 10 graduate assistants, and 30 undergrads students, we have received attention at the university level. IN 2013, Texas A&M identified 5 grand challenges that our world faces…under these challenges the university will help fund innovated projects and ideas that help address these concerns. This project gained attention because of the triple threat concept, but mainly because of the connection to the community and the intensive community engagement that is taking place.