Bolstering community resilience through health-focused climate change adaptation: moving from talk to action in Western Canadian communities
Recently, Desiree Rose and S. Jeff Birchall, from the UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience and the University of Alberta, published ‘Bolstering community resilience through health-focused climate change adaptation: moving from talk to action in Western Canadian communities’, with the journal Climate Policy.
The authors suggest that as climate change impacts continue to increase in severity, the risk to human health grows. In response to this threat, adaptation efforts that target community health are essential in order to ensure residents are effectively protected.
Their research utilizes a case study approach, involving five Canadian communities, to determine how communities are responding to health-related climate threats.
The authors explore the extent to which climate and health risk is recognized and planned for within local strategic planning documents. Then, through key actor interviews, the authors examine how implementation of health-focused adaptation plans and policies have progressed within communities. Using resilience theory as a framework, the authors investigate how enablers/barriers have emerged to enable/constrain health-focused adaptation progress in practice.
The journal article can be accessed for free here.
Full citation:
Rose, D., Birchall, SJ. (2024). Bolstering community resilience through health-focused climate change adaptation: Moving from talk to action in Western Canadian communities. Climate Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2395920.