The 5th Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference 2017

2017 年第五届 HBCU 气候变化会议

• 批准号: 9336632
• 负责人: Beverly L Wright
• 金额: $ 0.8万
• 依托单位: DILLARD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-03-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9336632
• 关键词: Academia; Address; Affect; Chronic; Cities; Climate; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Community Health; Competence; Data; Deep South; Disadvantaged; Disasters; Disputes; Drainage procedure; Droughts; Environment; Event; Faculty; Floods; Fostering; Gases; Goals; Health; Heat Waves; High School Student; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; International; Jordan; Justice; Learning; Natural Disasters; Oils; Paper; Participant; Policies; Population; Precipitation; Public Health; Relationship-Building; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Risk; Schools; Science; Scientist; Sea; Students; System; Temperature; Texas; Toxin; Universities; Work; base; climate change; climate impact; community living; disadvantaged population; environmental justice; experience; gulf coast; hazard; health economics; improved; leadership development; literacy; neighborhood safety; operation; physical conditioning; posters; severe weather; skills; social; symposium; synergism; theories; university student

Project Summary/Abstract The Dillard University Deep South Center for Environmental Justice will partner with the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University, in collaboration with twenty-five (25) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and fifteen (15) community-based organizations to host the 5th Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference. The conference, to take place from March 29, 2017 through April 2, 2017, will focus on the disproportionate impacts of climate change on vulnerable and marginalized communities. Conference sessions will address racial, social, public health and economic disparities in the wake of climate related disasters, serving as a call to action for students at HBCU’s to become engaged in the conversation around climate change and climate justice. While the fact of climate change is no longer subject to dispute, students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) need opportunities to engage with researchers and scientists about the expected impacts of climate change. Eleven major international studies conducted from 1987 to 2002 all predict significant climate change-induced hazards, including increased flooding, higher mean atmospheric temperatures, higher global mean sea levels, increased precipitation, increased droughts, increased atmospheric moisture-holding capacity, increased heat waves, increased strength of storms, more energetic waves, storm surges that reach further inland, under-capacity of urban sewerage and drainage systems, increased blight, increased vulnerability of port cities, and disproportionate impacts on disadvantaged population segments. HBCU students and faculty, many of whom are from disadvantaged communities, should be exposed to the impacts climate change could have in their communities and in other population segments. Our conference intends to offer such an experience The major purpose of the conference is to (1) introduce HBCU students to climate change science, (2) engage students with Gulf Coastal communities experiencing the impacts of climate change, (3) engage students in the practice of the profession through the presentation of research findings and (4) interact with and learn from professional experts in the field. The conference also strives to create synergy between academia and vulnerable communities. This synergy is expected to be achieved through the delivery of scholarly papers and presentations based on research conducted by students, faculty, scientific researchers and other environmental professionals using data, research findings, and scientific approaches to improve the environment and/or the health and well-being of climate impacted communities in coastal regions and harbor cities. In particular, the connections established through this conference are expected to contribute to addressing chronic or emerging challenges related to climate change in coastal regions or harbor cities that can be exacerbated by offshore oil and gas operations or natural disasters. Additionally, we expect to promote cross-boundary connections and activities that extend the HBCU consortium’s existing programming to new stakeholder communities in order to foster the development of leadership and communication skills, competencies in science literacy, and capabilities such as effective collaborations, partnerships and actions involving local and global-level climate change mitigation efforts. The aim of the proposed conference is to bring together HBCU faculty and students, researchers, climate professionals and environmental justice and coastal community residents impacted by toxic facilities and severe weather events related to climate change, in order to bridge the gap between theory and the experiential realities of climate change. To that end, conference participants will engage in the following activities during this 4 day event: (1) Panels and plenary sessions led by experts in the field; (2) Presentations, tours and interactions with Gulf Coast communities currently impacted by climate change and environmental justice communities living with toxins; (3) HBCU student panel presentations of climate change and environmental justice research projects; (4) HBCU student poster session highlighting the conduct of research projects and their findings presented to local high school students and others attending the conference. Through this conference, we expect to promote cross-boundary connections and activities that extend the HBCU consortium’s existing programming to new stakeholder communities in order to foster the development of leadership and communication skills, competencies in science literacy, and capabilities such as effective collaborations, partnerships and policy actions involving local and global-level climate change mitigation efforts in an effort to improve the public health.

项目总结/摘要 迪拉德大学深南环境正义中心将与芭芭拉乔丹米奇利兰合作 德克萨斯南方大学公共事务学院与二十五（25）所历史上的黑人学院合作， 大学（HBCUs）和十五（15）个社区组织主办第五届HBCU气候变化年度会议 会议会议将于2017年3月29日至2017年4月2日举行，将重点关注不成比例的 气候变化对弱势和边缘化社区的影响。会议将讨论种族，社会，公众 在气候相关灾害之后的健康和经济差距，作为HBCU学生的行动呼吁， 参与有关气候变化和气候正义的对话。 虽然气候变化的事实不再受到争议，但历史上的黑人学院和大学的学生 （HBCU）需要有机会与研究人员和科学家就气候变化的预期影响进行接触。十一 从1987年到2002年进行的主要国际研究都预测了重大的气候变化引起的灾害，包括 洪水增加，平均气温升高，全球平均海平面升高，降水增加， 干旱，增加大气持水能力，增加热浪，增加风暴强度，更有活力 波浪、风暴潮进一步深入内陆，城市污水和排水系统能力不足，枯萎病增加， 港口城市的脆弱性增加，对弱势群体的影响不成比例。HBCU学生 和教师，其中许多人来自弱势群体，应该接触到气候变化可能产生的影响， in their其communities社区and in other population人口segments部分.我们的会议打算提供这样的经验 会议的主要目的是（1）向HBCU学生介绍气候变化科学，（2）让学生参与 经历气候变化影响的海湾沿岸社区，（3）让学生参与专业实践 通过介绍研究成果和（4）与该领域的专业专家互动并向他们学习。的 会议还努力在学术界和弱势群体之间建立协同作用。这种协同作用预计将是 通过基于学生、教师、 科学研究人员和其他环境专业人员使用数据，研究成果和科学方法，以改善 沿海地区和港口城市受气候影响社区的环境和/或健康和福祉。在 特别是，通过这次会议建立的联系预计将有助于解决长期或新出现的问题， 与沿海地区或港口城市气候变化相关的挑战，这些挑战可能因海上石油和天然气而加剧 行动或自然灾害。此外，我们期望推动跨境联系和活动， HBCU财团现有的方案，以新的利益相关者社区，以促进领导的发展 和沟通技能，科学素养的能力，以及有效合作，伙伴关系和 涉及地方和全球一级减缓气候变化努力的行动。 拟议会议的目的是汇集HBCU教师和学生，研究人员，气候专业人士和 环境正义和沿海社区居民受到有毒设施和与气候有关的恶劣天气事件的影响 气候变化的理论与实际经验之间的差距。为此，会议 在为期4天的会议期间，与会者将参加以下活动：（1）由专家领导的小组和全体会议， （2）介绍、图尔斯和与目前受气候变化影响的墨西哥湾沿岸社区的互动， 环境正义社区生活与毒素;（3）HBCU学生小组介绍气候变化和 环境正义研究项目;（4）HBCU学生海报会议突出研究项目的进行， 他们向当地高中生和其他与会者介绍了他们的研究结果。 通过这次会议，我们希望促进跨境联系和活动， 联合会的现有方案，以新的利益相关者社区，以促进发展的领导和 沟通技巧，科学素养的能力，以及有效合作，伙伴关系和 涉及地方和全球一级减缓气候变化努力的政策行动，以努力改善公众健康。