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Community Environmental Education as An Environmental Justice and Climate-resilience Strategy in Ciudad Juárez
The effects of climate change in Ciudad Juárez result in a direct correlation between dangerous events and vulnerable populations. Droughts, prolonged heat waves, torrential rainfall,...
Innovation Network for Adaptation to Extreme Weather Events in Urban Environments in Chiapas
The coastal municipalities of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, including Arriaga, Tonalá, Pijijiapan, Mapastepec, Acapetahua, Escuintla, Villacomaltitlán, Huehuetán, Motozintla,...
Implementation of Strategies to Increase Climate Resilience Along the Urban Rivers of Villahermosa
The city of Villahermosa has been beset by flooding for many decades. From a historical standpoint, the people of Tabasco have learned to live with the rising and falling of water...
Collaborative Community Research and Action to Build Climate Change Resiliency on California’s Largest Lake
Since 2015, catastrophic wildfires have burned >60% of Lake County. Epic drought has lowered lake, slough, and marshland water levels and amplified toxic chemical concentrations in...
Building Multinational Climate Resilience through Cross-Border Shared Learning in Mexico, the United States, and Tohono O’odham Nation
The Madrean Archipelago is a culturally and ecologically diverse ecoregion that spans the southwestern United States, northwestern Mexico, and multiple sovereign Indigenous nations. With...
Mayan women promoting solar power
Communities on the Yucatán peninsula are living through the effects of climate change and facing major challenges: erratic rainfall is modifying production cycles and endangering food...
Snuw uy ulh tuna tumuhw (Teachings of the Land): Reconnecting Youth with Indigenous Land Stewardship Practices and Traditions
Quw’utsun people have been living on the coastal lands of the Salish Sea in for at least the last 15,000 years. Beginning in the mid-1840s, British Columbian Indigenous people have been...
From One Sea to Another: Building Community Coastal Resilience in British Columbia and Nova Scotia
The impacts of extreme weather events are being felt by a growing number of coastal communities in British Columbia and Nova Scotia as climate change increases the frequency and intensity...
Resilient Schools Consortium: Transforming Puerto Rico’s Schools into Hubs for Climate Resilience Education and Solutions
Puerto Rico, an island community of 3.3 million people, has been battered by climate-fueled storms for decades, yet has not educated or trained future generations to be prepared. There is...
Katuxawat Totonaca Community Learning Model (Cultivating Life) for Environmental Justice
Communities in the Totonacapan regions are highly vulnerable to the hydrometeorological threats impacting biodiversity, health, society and agriculture. However, tlan latamat...
Wastewater Sanitation and Reduction of Agrochemical Pollution and Flooding through Natural, Community-based and Educational Solutions
The region is located in the Eastern Sierra Madres. Due to the topography, violent water surges occur during the rainy season, causing flooding and human and material losses. While most...
River voices: community management of water for resilience in the Nahua territory of Hidalgo
Due to climate change, the Nahua community of Tecpaco (Calnali, Hidalgo) is facing risks to the water supply from its aquatic socio-ecosystem, of cultural and nutritional importance. The...
Supporting Cultural and Climate Resilience for Eastern Washington Tribes through Cultural Burning and Landscape Restoration
Climate change in the Pacific Northwest, specifically in the form of megafires, threatens lands, livelihoods, and food supply, especially for Indigenous tribes. In previous decades,...
Restoring Ea
Fishponds are vulnerable to a variety of climate change impacts, including sea-level rise, changes in precipitation patterns, rising air and ocean temperatures, ocean acidification, and...
Schools for Agroecological Life: Resilience of Rural Ecosystems in the Yaqui Valley
Around the world, most food is produced by intensive agriculture. However, these practices cause multiple adverse environmental effects: greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, loss of...
Preserving Akwesasne Native Biodiversity for the Future
The strong need for fair and inclusive engagements of all to conserve native biodiversity and seeds and, at the same time, promoting the inclusion of youth in the protection of said...
One Water: An Indigenous-led Process to Increase Water Resilience for First Nations in Ontario through Rain Water Harvesting
Indigenous communities in Canada have struggled with access to safe drinking water for decades. Infrastructure deficit, pollution of water sources and lack of trained personnel are some...
Increasing the flood resilience of lower Fraser First Nations communities, while rebuilding damaged salmon habitats
Our proposed project will build on an existing major project, called “Resilient Waters” (see www.resilientwaters.ca), that is identifying key flood control sites where fish passage...
Silver City Carboneers
Climate-related fire, drought, water scarcity, and extreme heat increasingly threaten food security in the culturally diverse (60% non-white) and economically challenged community of...
Community-led Climate Solutions for Vertical Communities
Toronto is increasingly experiencing climate-related extreme weather events such as heat waves, flooding, and ice storms, which disproportionately impact vulnerable and marginalized...