U005
Climate Empowerment: Social Knotworking and Infrastructuring to Accelerate Just Climate Actions
Climate Empowerment: Social Knotworking and Infrastructuring to Accelerate Just Climate Actions
Session ID#: 159824
Session Description:
To accelerate a just transition to a low-carbon and resilient world we need to collectively marshall creativity, initiative, and collaboration from diverse communities, governments, organizations, and individuals. Effectively, equitably, and rapidly addressing climate change requires building informed and mobilized communities and a diverse workforce with a strong grasp of a wide range of knowledge and skills. Education, training, empowerment, and communication with communities across the U.S, its territories, and Tribal nations already exist in some communities, however, these efforts are not strategically coordinated, adequately resourced, or networked to foster a just transition. In considering how to best improve socio-environmental capacity to address climate change, this union session will draw on ideas and examples highlighting knotworking and infrastructuring, which describe ways of organizing and supporting activity through the weaving of resources and practices across multiple interconnected networks of individuals and organizations to rapidly mobilize all of society climate actions.
Index Terms:
0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4345 Community management [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6620 Science policy [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
Primary Convener: Deb L Morrison, CLEAR Environmental, Pender Island, BC, Canada
Convener: Frank Niepold III, NOAA Washington DC, Climate Program Office, Washington, MD, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Haley Crim, CLEAR Environmental, Pender Island, Canada
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