The 5th Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference 2017

项目摘要/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和 大学(HBCU)和十五(15)个社区组织将主办第五届HBCU气候变化年会 会议。这次会议将于2017年3月29日至2017年4月2日举行，将集中讨论不成比例的 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、公共 气候灾害后的健康和经济差异，呼吁HBCU的学生采取行动 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有争议，但历史悠久的黑人学院和大学的学生们 (HBCU)需要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由气候变化引起的重大危害，包括 洪灾加剧，平均大气温度升高，全球平均海平面上升，降水量增加， 干旱，大气保湿能力增加，热浪增加，风暴强度增加，更有活力 海浪，风暴潮蔓延到更深的内陆，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 而教职员工，其中许多来自弱势社区，应该暴露在气候变化可能产生的影响中 在他们的社区和其他人口群体中。我们的会议打算提供这样的体验 会议的主要目的是(1)向HBCU的学生介绍气候变化科学，(2)让学生参与 墨西哥湾沿岸社区经历气候变化的影响，(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和学习。这个 会议还努力在学术界和弱势社区之间创造协同效应。这种协同效应预计将是 通过发表学术论文和基于学生、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来改进 环境和/或气候的健康和福祉影响到沿海地区和港口城市的社区。在……里面 特别是，通过本次会议建立的联系预计将有助于解决长期的或新出现的问题 与沿海地区或港口城市气候变化相关的挑战，近海石油和天然气可能加剧这些挑战 作业或自然灾害。此外，我们期望促进跨境联系和活动，以延长 HBCU联盟向新的利益攸关方社区提供的现有方案，以促进领导力的发展 和沟通技能，科学素养方面的能力，以及有效合作、伙伴关系和 涉及地方和全球层面减缓气候变化努力的行动。 拟议中的会议的目的是将HBCU的教职员工和学生、研究人员、气候专业人员和 受有毒设施和与气候有关的恶劣天气事件影响的环境正义和沿海社区居民 为了弥合气候变化的理论和实际经验之间的差距。为此，会议 在这次为期4天的活动中，与会者将参加以下活动：(1)由 实地考察；(2)介绍、参观和与目前受气候变化影响的墨西哥湾沿岸社区的互动 与毒素共存的环境正义社区；(3)HBCU学生小组报告气候变化和 环境正义研究项目；(4)HBCU学生海报会议，强调开展研究项目和 他们的发现展示给了当地的高中生和其他参加会议的人。 通过这次会议，我们希望促进跨境联系和活动，以扩大HBCU 财团对新的利益攸关方社区的现有规划，以促进领导力和 沟通技能、科学素养方面的能力，以及有效合作、伙伴关系和 涉及地方和全球层面减缓气候变化努力的政策行动，以努力改善公众健康。

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.