Community-driven approaches for Environmental Justice and Health in the Face of the Climate Crisis:
Our goal is to empower marginalized communities in building a more climate-resilient Los Angeles through community-academic partnerships, climate justice advocacy, neighborhood-level assessments, and a community climate health action plan. We will use participatory strategies to address climate equity and build community power by increasing knowledge, promoting local solutions, and improving climate change research dissemination.
Research Objectives
Our Five Aims :
- Educate and empower communities through collaborative research, partnerships, and interactive learning materials on climate change, extreme heat, resilience, and health.
- Understand how residents perceive risks, adopt protective behaviors, and experience health impacts during climate emergencies.
- Assess neighborhood vulnerability to climate change using innovative spatial methods that analyze extreme heat, temperature variations, and air pollution patterns using remote sensing data.
- Expand community air monitoring in climate justice neighborhoods to collect detailed temperature data and share this information through the web platforms, interactive maps, text alerts, and social media.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of community workshops to shift knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding public health protection, using surveys and interviews.
Heat Resources
Climate tool Kit
(LA’s green new deal)
Multiple tool kits are available for you and your community to become more resilient:
NotifyLA Emergency Alerts
Sign up to receive possibly life-saving alerts to help you prepare and respond to any emergency! (Phone, Email, or Text):
LADWP Rebates and Programs
Want to make home improvements or upgrade appliances to lower energy costs?
Education Materials
Our team developed StoryMaps to demonstrate the impacts of extreme heat in our communities. These StoryMaps help us understand the dangers of extreme heat, who is affected the most and what we can do to protect ourselves and our communities. This study focuses on three communities within the larger Los Angeles area that are disproportionately affected by extreme heat events. They are South Los Angeles, Wilmington, and Pacoima.
To learn more about our study, the impacts of extreme heat, and available resources please click on the links that include general information as well as information for the specific communities we worked with.
