Building Community Climate Change Knowledge and Resilience in Older Adult and Immigrant Populations
Funded by: North American Partnership for Environmental Cooperation Action (NAPECA)
Aims & Objectives
Build resilience and enhance the capacity of local institutions and communities in Edmonton to respond to climate change.
Build the adaptive capacity of older adults and immigrant communities to climate change.
Our strategy
For objective 1:
We will develop an interactive, web-based mapping platform based on a community vulnerability index to extreme weather (heat, cold, snow/ice) and air pollution events.
For objective 2:
Co-design and pilot knowledge mobilization tools targeted to older adult and immigrant communities with our partners/beneficiaries.
What are we doing?
Create a secure, user-friendly, updatable, accessible, interactive, anonymized web-based platform using ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online to host maps of vulnerability indices.
Develop a query function for the web-based platform for community-level vulnerability indices and individual components of community-level vulnerability index.
Generate descriptive statistics associated with vulnerability indices and individual components of vulnerability index, based on current data.
Create user manual for interactive, web-based platform for stakeholders.
Form knowledge mobilization team built from existing and new collaborations.
Perform knowledge gap assessments and evaluate knowledge mobilization preferences with selected, diverse stakeholders and communities.
Co-develop fact sheets and videos on potential vulnerability to extreme weather and air pollution events in older adults and immigrants.
Pilot knowledge mobilization tools using focus groups and surveys among older adults and immigrant groups in Edmonton during the scheduled Stakeholder Engagement Day.
Findings dissemination to funders and selected stakeholders.
Our expected result
Pilot-tested, secure, user-friendly, accessible, updatable, interactive, web-based data secure platform.
Query algorithm for community-level vulnerability indices and individual components of community-level vulnerability index.
Set of descriptive summary results for community-level vulnerability indices and individual components of vulnerability index.
Comprehensive manual for stakeholders providing access guidance as well as user and updating instructions.
Knowledge mobilization team with representation from different stakeholder groups.
Clear areas identified regarding knowledge gaps that potentially impact climate change resilience and adaptive capacity across stakeholder groups and communities.
Set of evidence-based fact sheets and videos focused on extreme weather and air pollution vulnerability and adaptation measures targeted to older adults and immigrants.
Qualitative and quantitative evaluations of knowledge mobilization tools.
Dissemination of activities and results of study to funders/stakeholders in the form of a report and presentation.