The Center for Heat Resilient Communities gets a NOAA Grant with Dr. Kelly Turner and Dr. Ladd Keith
06/03/24 • 33 min
In episode 207 of America Adapts, Dr. Kelly Turner of UCLA and Dr. Ladd Keith at the University of Arizona join host Doug Parsons to discuss groundbreaking work in extreme heat governance and planning, specifically focusing on the recent NOAA grant awarded to launch the Center for Heat Resilient Communities. The grant aims to enhance heat resilience in communities by encouraging connections between stakeholders and the federal government, with a heavy emphasis on climate justice and environmental justice as part of President Biden’s Justice40 initiative. The discussion also covers federally funded research programs supporting rural and tribal communities with heat resilience, mapping shade equity nationally, and initiatives on indoor cooling. Kelly and Ladd encourage involvement in the field of heat policy and governance, inviting individuals to reach out and engage with the three year project.
Topics covered:
- NOAA Grant Overview
- Biden Administration's Role
- Principals and Key Partners/Community Partnerships
- Heat Resilient Communities Framework
- Evaluating Heat Resilience Policies
- Training Future Heat Leaders
- Funding and Support for Communities
- Climate and Environmental Justice
- Media Coverage of Extreme Heat
- Plug for Other Research Programs for Kelly and Ladd
- Call to Action: Visit heat.gov
Principal Researchers for the Grant:
Dr. V. Kelly Turner, UCLA (lead)
Dr. Ladd Keith, University of Arizona
Dr. Sara Meerow, Arizona State University
Transcript of episode available here.
Quotes from the episode:
Dr. Kelly Turner:
Really, there are two main goals. One is to to create a robust framework across a diverse set of contexts that communities could use to do heat resilience work. And so we have a series of six cores that the whole center is organized around. So the first goal is for us to create this framework. And the second goal is to then fund and to support communities. So 10 communities per year over three years to test that framework and refine it. And I could get into a little bit about each one of the cores if that's of interest.
Dr. Ladd Keith
And we'll be co-developing essentially this heat resilient framework that the communities will be going through. And it involves all the cores and is really focused on supporting heat action planning at the local level and really drawing on that network of experts that we have involved in the center. I think one of the exciting things is we'll be co-developing this heat resilient framework with the communities that we're working with. And of Of course, we'll be supporting the initial 30 communities, but we'll also be putting a lot of that information on heat.gov so that it's accessible to all of the other 19,000 communities in the United States. And another part of it that's really exciting is all of the lessons that we're going to learn through the center is feeding that back to federal agencies and really partnering with them so they know how to better support community heat planning as well.
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Biden-Harris Administration invests $4.55 million for community heat resilience through Investing in America agenda UCLA to lead the Center of Excellence for Heat Resilient Communities
In episode 207 of America Adapts, Dr. Kelly Turner of UCLA and Dr. Ladd Keith at the University of Arizona join host Doug Parsons to discuss groundbreaking work in extreme heat governance and planning, specifically focusing on the recent NOAA grant awarded to launch the Center for Heat Resilient Communities. The grant aims to enhance heat resilience in communities by encouraging connections between stakeholders and the federal government, with a heavy emphasis on climate justice and environmental justice as part of President Biden’s Justice40 initiative. The discussion also covers federally funded research programs supporting rural and tribal communities with heat resilience, mapping shade equity nationally, and initiatives on indoor cooling. Kelly and Ladd encourage involvement in the field of heat policy and governance, inviting individuals to reach out and engage with the three year project.
Topics covered:
- NOAA Grant Overview
- Biden Administration's Role
- Principals and Key Partners/Community Partnerships
- Heat Resilient Communities Framework
- Evaluating Heat Resilience Policies
- Training Future Heat Leaders
- Funding and Support for Communities
- Climate and Environmental Justice
- Media Coverage of Extreme Heat
- Plug for Other Research Programs for Kelly and Ladd
- Call to Action: Visit heat.gov
Principal Researchers for the Grant:
Dr. V. Kelly Turner, UCLA (lead)
Dr. Ladd Keith, University of Arizona
Dr. Sara Meerow, Arizona State University
Transcript of episode available here.
Quotes from the episode:
Dr. Kelly Turner:
Really, there are two main goals. One is to to create a robust framework across a diverse set of contexts that communities could use to do heat resilience work. And so we have a series of six cores that the whole center is organized around. So the first goal is for us to create this framework. And the second goal is to then fund and to support communities. So 10 communities per year over three years to test that framework and refine it. And I could get into a little bit about each one of the cores if that's of interest.
Dr. Ladd Keith
And we'll be co-developing essentially this heat resilient framework that the communities will be going through. And it involves all the cores and is really focused on supporting heat action planning at the local level and really drawing on that network of experts that we have involved in the center. I think one of the exciting things is we'll be co-developing this heat resilient framework with the communities that we're working with. And of Of course, we'll be supporting the initial 30 communities, but we'll also be putting a lot of that information on heat.gov so that it's accessible to all of the other 19,000 communities in the United States. And another part of it that's really exciting is all of the lessons that we're going to learn through the center is feeding that back to federal agencies and really partnering with them so they know how to better support community heat planning as well.
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Links in this episode: Center for Heat Resilient Communities
Biden-Harris Administration invests $4.55 million for community heat resilience through Investing in America agenda UCLA to lead the Center of Excellence for Heat Resilient Communities
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Experts in this Episode:
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- Dr. Rick Spinrad – Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere & NOAA Administrator
- Dina Esposito – Assistant to the Administrator for the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security (REFS) at USAID
- Lauren Risi – Program Director of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center
- Matt Huddleston - Senior Data Analytics Consultant at Resilient Analytics
- Dr. Nadia Seeteram - Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University's Climate School
- Emilie Mazzacurati - Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Tailwind
- Taylor Dimsdale - Senior Fellow, Climate and Disaster Resilience, Fors Marsh
- Faith Qin - Student
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The third annual Innovations in Climate Resilience Conference (ICR24) took place on April 22-24, 2024, in Washington, DC.
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In episode 208 of America Adapts, Mark Nevitt, an associate professor of law at Emory University joins the podcast to discuss his new paper that’s under review, entitled, Destroy, Rebuild, Repeat: How to Break the Climate Disaster Cycle. Mark delves into the expansion of climate change law courses and his research on the security implications of climate change. He discusses his articles highlighting legal challenges in climate adaptation and introduces his new article focusing on breaking the climate disaster cycle. Mark emphasizes the importance of democratizing climate risk information and proactive measures like managed retreat. He explores legal liabilities in climate adaptation, the semantics of resilience, and the significance of accurate terminology in conveying climate risks. It’s a packed legally episode along with Doug’s ‘Hot Take’!
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The National Flood Insurance Program is essentially a massive program to subsidize sandcastles. That is in place. It's a classic moral hazard where the people who are benefiting from the program are not fully invested in all the risks associated with it. It's heavily subsidized.
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Doug Parsons:
And so you're proposing an entirely new framework. To break this cycle of destroy, repealed, rebuild, repeat.
...we've got to hold people responsible even today decisions that are going to be happening in the next few years, because we won't ever be able to afford this because 10 years from now.
Mark Nevitt’s previous appearance on America Adapts: Climate Change and the Legal System: Why the U.S. Constitution Needs to Adapt with Law Professor Mark Nevitt
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