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

ASU is lead partner in new national Center for Heat Resilient Communities

New federally funded center will rely on UArizona expertise to help communities manage extreme heat

 

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