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Climate Hazard Resilience Forum: Extreme Heat

In this interactive forum program participants will discuss the social, economic, and environmental impacts of extreme heat in facilitated groups.

DESCRIPTION

This deliberative forum brings the participants through the resilience planning process around heat for a generic city, named Heattown. Participants will use visualizations to explore potential vulnerabilities to city infrastructures, social networks, and ecosystems from heat. They then learn and discuss stakeholder values, consider trade-offs of various resilience strategies, make a final recommendation for increasing their city’s community resilience, and then experience visualizations of how their plan will affect the city and the people who live there.

Learn more about the Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities (CSCRC) project.

 

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  • NOAA Climate Hazard Resilience heat forum with people sitting around tables talking
  • NOAA Climate Hazard Resilience heat forum with person's hands on worksheet with pencil
  • Heat Workbook cover image
  • CSCRC Heat board
  • Citizen Science Civics and Resilient Communities CSCRC logo
  • NOAA Climate Hazard Resilience heat forum with people sitting around tables talking
  • NOAA Climate Hazard Resilience heat forum with person's hands on worksheet with pencil
  • Heat Workbook cover image
  • CSCRC Heat board
  • Citizen Science Civics and Resilient Communities CSCRC logo

DESCRIPTION

This deliberative forum brings the participants through the resilience planning process around heat for a generic city, named Heattown. Participants will use visualizations to explore potential vulnerabilities to city infrastructures, social networks, and ecosystems from heat. They then learn and discuss stakeholder values, consider trade-offs of various resilience strategies, make a final recommendation for increasing their city’s community resilience, and then experience visualizations of how their plan will affect the city and the people who live there.

Learn more about the Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities (CSCRC) project.

 

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TRAINING VIDEOS

OBJECTIVES

BIG IDEA

Engage participants in discussions about climate-related hazards and resilience strategies and policies in part through the exploration of NOAA data.

LEARNING GOALS

  • As a result of participating in this program, the public and educators will:

    • Increase understanding of environmental changes, extreme heat, and the ways human and natural systems interact.
    • Engage in discussions about measures that contribute to resilient communities, ecosystems, and economies and use of visualizations, case studies, and other data to make decisions during the forums.
    • Increase interest in research related to heat and societal issues related to environmental changes and natural hazards.
    • Be more supportive of the creation of robust community resiliency measures.

     

Credits

YEAR CREATED
2017, revised 2021
OWNING INSTITUTION

Museum of Science, Arizona State University, and Northeastern University

FUNDING

These materials were created by the Museum of Science, Boston under the awards NA15SEC0080005 and NA18SEC0080008 from the Environmental Literacy Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations within are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of NOAA or the U.S. Department of Commerce.

PERMISSIONS

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

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