Climate Solutions Scholars Summit

From adaptation and mitigation to education, the 2023/24 Solutions Scholars have been exploring climate solutions related to urban environments, extreme heat, and fires.

Come hear their research updates and join table discussions to advance the dialogue.

Refreshments included

Over the past eight months Solutions Scholars have been working on projects related to the 2023/24 call of extreme events, heat and wildfires, and urban transformations.  

These students will be presenting their research to date at a Solutions Summit on April 18, from 2-4pm. 

In the first hour, this year's cohort will share updates of their projects; in the second hour, each scholar will host a table to facilitate smaller group discussion around the topic of their research.  This is an opportunity to learn from one another, as well as provide feedback to the scholars who will be completing their projects over the following four months.

Table Topics:

• Urban Transformations

  • Mobility
  • Health 
  • Nature
• Climate and Extreme Heat
  • Cultural burning practices
  • Risk mitigation 
  • Water Management 
• Wildfires
  • Health
  • Biodiversity
  • Risk mitigation

You can view more about this year’s Solutions Scholars and their project topics on our website.

Solutions Scholars Projects:

• Raptor Habitat Suitability in Post-Fire Landscapes
• Mitigation of post-wildfire debris flows in small watersheds
• Towards a collaborative and co-productive urban greening practice
• Health Burden of Fires and Air Pollution in the Brazilian Amazon
• Re-wilding the City: Applying the Miyawaki Method to Small Urban Spaces
• Understanding Projected Heatwave Impacts on Demographic Groups in Different Climate Change Storylines
• Built environment factors and barriers in adaptation to extreme heat experienced by older adults in Metro Vancouver
• Collaborative co-creation of knowledge to support Indigenous cultural burning for climate resilience in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia
• Multi-Year Trends in Volume & Speed for 27 Types of Personal Mobility Devices: Implications for Vehicle Regulation, Facility Design, & Climate Change Mitigation.
• Advance the methods of the water distribution network (WDN) modelling for understanding and managing WDN dynamic conditions affected by stressors induced by climate change

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