Climate Adaptation & Resilience: Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Mitigation for Extreme Heat Webinar
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Rising heat levels across our environments, driven by climate change and growing urbanisation, are resulting in increased frequency, intensity and duration of extreme heat events. This issue is complex, extending beyond temperature. To understand it, we need to look at a broad range of microclimate interactions - humidity, air and water patterns, vegetation and water networks.
16:00 - 17:30 BST
Heat poses a distinct threat to ecosystems, human health and settlements, infrastructure and economies. This inter disciplinary webinar will explore innovative strategies for navigating this complex challenge. Our panel of experts bring together research, policy and practice and will discuss cross-disciplinary collaborations to develop holistic design strategies, including innovative community-led stewardship solutions. From city-scale strategies to small-scale projects, nature-based solutions, codesigned projects and stewardship, the webinar will provide an exploration of effective strategies for mitigating heat, adapting and building resilient and thriving places.
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OBJECTIVES:
- To share knowledge on rising heat and microclimate, with examples from research, policy and projects in practice, including practical mapping tools, references and innovative case studies.
- To share cross-disciplinary approaches to working in heat mitigation within the broad context of adaptation and resilience strategies. (Breaking down silos, supporting a collective approach and ‘common language’, including international perspectives)
- To highlight the integral connections between climate and nature, restoring natural systems and ecosystems services, and the crucial role of community-led codesign and stewardship in this process.
- To open dialogues and share learning resources, contributing to the collective ‘Climate and Nature Literacy’ CPD programme activities of the wider CIC Climate Change Committee.
- To identify gaps in knowledge within the field for further discussion, and also learn from strategies/projects which have not been successful.
- To inform members of professional institutions about the work of the CIC Workstream 8, including the role of landscape strategies and practitioners in Adaptation and Resilience.
Sophia Vela
Strategic Partnerships Project Manager, Chicago Department of Environment
Raed Mansour
Senior Fellow: Greening America's Cities, Metropolitan Planning Council
Asha Tomlin-Kent
Senior Policy and Programmes Officer, Green Infrastructure, Greater London Authority
Maria Villalobos Hernandez
Associate Professor & Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture and Urbanism, Illinois Institute of Technology