Climate Justice | Wednesday, November 6, 2024
FIRE Talks: Climate Justice
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 from 12-1 pm
Join us on November 6 in the UBC Library Research Commons as graduate students present their research on Climate Justice, the approach to climate action that focuses on the unequal impacts of climate change on marginalized or otherwise vulnerable populations. The FIRE Talks provide space for graduate students to present their research and connect with other graduate students around common research interests. Students present for a maximum of 5 minutes on their topic, and then the interdisciplinary panel discusses the topic from their disciplinary perspectives, sharing their thoughts and insights. Part of national Climate Action week,
Speakers:
Mahfida Tahniat
Mahfida Tahniat is a PhD student in the Department of Educational Studies (EDST). Her research interests include climate justice, social justice, environmental education and sustainable educational development. https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/tahniat-mahfida/
Zachary Daly
Zachary Daly is a registered nurse with extensive experience working in child and adolescent mental health settings. He is currently a PhD student in the School of Nursing. His interests centre on understanding the interplay between climate change and mental health among youth using participatory and strengths-based approaches.
Rachel Stern
Rachel Stern is a MA student in the Department of Geography. Her research looks at the relationship between housing justice and climate justice, particularly focusing on the impact of climate change-induced extreme weather on vulnerable tenants in Vancouver, British Columbia. https://climatejustice.ubc.ca/profile/rachel-stern/
Dan Hackborne
Dan Hackborn (he/him) is a doctoral student from Treaty 6 Alberta, currently studying at the UBC School of Information on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm land. Previously he has worked as an artist, as well as in a public library and its makerspace. His research is primarily oriented towards the role of librarianship amid the rapid and inequitably distributed socioecological changes that are being caused disproportionately by the infrastructures that support his society’s contemporary way of life.
Recent Books on Climate Justice
The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators by Publication Date: 2024An easy-to-use field guide for teaching on climate injustice and building resilience in your students--and yourself--in an age of crisis. As feelings of eco-grief and climate anxiety grow, educators are grappling with how to help students learn about the violent systems causing climate change while simultaneously navigating the emotions this knowledge elicits.
Climate Justice and Public Health by Publication Date: 2024When climate disasters like hurricanes, heatwaves, and tsunamis strike, they reveal the inequities of our social, political, and economic structures. They also lay bare the negative impacts of these structures on the health and safety of all people, and particularly socioeconomically vulnerable groups. The contributors in this volume address a broad range of topics that include Indigenous health and cultural practices, mental and emotional health, senior health, and impacts on African American communities.
Climate Justice and Participatory Research by Publication Date: 2023Climate Justice and Participatory Research offers ideas and inspiration for climate justice through the creation of research, knowledge, and livelihood commons and community-based climate resilience. It brings together articulations of the what, why, and how of climate justice through the voices of energetic and motivated scholar-activists who are building alliances across Latin America, Africa, and Canada.
Climate Justice in the Majority World by Publication Date: 2023This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live. It is also the site of the most severe impacts of climate change and home to some of the key solutions for the climate crisis. The impacts of climate change are disproportionately affecting individuals, communities, and countries in the Majority World who historically have contributed little to rising global temperatures.
