Integrating the Human Sciences to Scale Societal Responses to Environmental Change: Proceedings of a Workshop (2023)

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Appendix A

Workshop Agenda

COMMITTEE ON INTEGRATING THE HUMAN SCIENCES TO SCALE SOCIETAL RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: A WORKSHOP

Virtual

THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2023
ALL TIMES IN ET

Purpose The workshop will consider how to integrate, align, and converge the broad mix of human sciences to produce new insights and inform efforts for improved community resilience. Earth System Science increasingly incorporates human systems in its analysis of climate change, but the human sciences have yet to align internally to address how best to enable a resilient civic body to be prepared to respond to environmental shifts, uncertainties, and damage.
10:00–10:15 Welcoming Remarks and Introductions
Led by Robyn Wilson, Workshop Chair & Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science, School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University and Thomas Thornton, Director of the Board on Environmental Change and Society
10:15–10:35 Sponsors Welcome and Comments
Gary Belkin, Director, Billion Minds Institute
Chris Frey, Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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10:35–11:00 Workshop Overview
Robyn Wilson, Workshop Chair & Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science, School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University
What are the human sciences?
How can we better map and synthesize this knowledge? *Address knowledge push from the human science perspective, and demand pull from the communities
What do we know about scaling societal responses to environmental change? *Address circularity—how does addressing current challenges better minimize future harms; how do we recover in ways that advance sustainable behaviors?
What are the gaps in our understanding of how to empower community climate action?
What opportunities are there to strengthen social ties, increase well-being, and advance justice?
11:00–12:30 Panel 1—Overview of Success: Bodies of Knowledge and Existing Toolkit
Moderated by: Susan Clayton, Committee Member & Professor of Psychology, The College of Wooster
Speaker 1:
What do we know is working to promote resilience from the community perspective?
Jessica Murphy, Professor of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Industrial Systems and Technology, Jackson State University
Speaker 2:
What do we know is working to promote resilience from the human science perspective?
Stephen Linder, Committee Member & Professor, Department of Management, Policy and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Director, Institute for Health Policy; Co-Director, Community Engagement for the Gulf Coast Center for Precision Environmental Research
Potential Panel Discussion Questions:
  • What has the role of partnerships (public and private) been in building capacity?
  • What timeline and resources are needed to build successful community partnerships?
  • What equitable solutions are working in community resilience and how do we sustain them?
  • What best piece of advice would you give to inform community resilience?
12:30–1:00 Break
1:00–2:30 Panel 2—Overview of Challenges: Identified Gaps and Needs That Prevent Real and Sustained Change
Moderated by: Fernando Sanchez-Trigueros, Committee Member & Assistant Professor, Departments of Native American Studies and Environmental Studies; Director, Elouise Cobell Land and Culture Institute, University of Montana
Speaker 1:
What do we need to understand about populations and places to prepare communities for future environmental changes?
Deborah Balk, Professor, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, and Director, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, City University of New York
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Speaker 2:
Integrating Indigenous knowledge systems
Direlle Calica, Director, Institute for Tribal Government, Portland State University and the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians’ Energy & Water Program
Speaker 3:
What can be done to augment the human sciences disciplines to better meet community needs?
Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth System Science and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Social Sciences Division, Stanford University
Potential Panel Discussion Questions:
  • What is the best way to solve these challenges—does this involve changes in educational systems, public outreach, institutional structure, funding structures?
    • What are challenges and needs in relation to infrastructure and housing (greening in health sector)?
    • What are challenges and needs in relation to governance?
  • How can we prioritize efforts in marginalized communities?
  • How do we build and sustain a workforce to address climate change?
  • What opportunities need to open to build capacity in the human sciences?
  • How can social scientists contribute to or lead efforts around environmental change?
  • What scales (i.e., local, state, federal) and actors (i.e., executive agencies, tribal and Indigenous groups, nongovernmental organizations) are needed to better analyze and respond to environmental change?
  • What uncertainties (past and present) might impede forecasting change and achieving resilience?
2:30–4:00 Panel 3—Best Practices Across Domains of Need from the Human Sciences
Moderated by: Stephen Linder, Committee Member & Professor, Department of Management, Policy and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Director, Institute for Health Policy; Co-Director, Community Engagement for the Gulf Coast Center for Precision Environmental Research
Speaker 1:
Data collection and access
Shannon Dosemagen, Director, Open Environmental Data Project; Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow
Speaker 2:
Social-movements
Lynny Brown, Partner, Healthy Environments at Willamette Partnership
Speaker 3:
Behavior change
Steven C. Hayes, Nevada Foundation Professor, Behavior Analysis Program, Department of Psychology, University of Nevada
Speaker 4:
Communication and sustainability
Ezra Markowitz, Associate Professor of Environmental Decision Making, Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Potential Panel Discussion Questions:
  • What is the role of citizen science in these domains of need?
  • What ethical bureaucratic challenges and opportunities do we face in community engagement work?
  • How do we bridge from policy to practice? How can we integrate data from different scales?
  • How do we leverage education to move the key lessons and best practices forward?
  • Where do we go next? In each of the areas, is there anything we need to do differently to prepare the workforce to engage in this sort of work?
  • How are the data being used?
  • How can we mobilize/engage communities to collaborate toward climate/environmental action?
4:00 Adjourn

FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2023
ALL TIMES IN ET

10:00–10:15 Highlights of First Day
Robyn Wilson, Workshop Chair & Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science, School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University
10:15–11:30 Panel 4—Case Studies: Achieving Climate Action Through Community-Level Partnerships
Moderated by: Linda Silka, Committee Member & Senior Fellow and Professor Emerita, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, University of Maine
Speaker 1:
Examples of successful resilience building at the community level
Abby Reyes, Director, Community Resilience Projects, Office of Sustainability, University of California, Irvine
Speaker 2:
What is the role of relationships in fostering community capacity and resilience?
Sara Constantino, Assistant Professor, Psychology Department & School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
Speaker 3:
What are the important steps to ensure that the well-being of communities is front and center in climate policies?
Kristie L. Ebi, Professor, Center for Health and the Global Environment, School of Public Health, University of Washington
Potential Panel Discussion Questions:
  • What made this effort successful and how do you recreate the success in different communities?
  • What policies protect health, equity, and justice within communities?
  • What is needed to prime communities to receive and successfully implement these tools, practices, and methods successfully?
  • What messaging is involved to encourage community involvement and how can we evaluate cooperation?
11:30–12:00 Break
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12:00–1:00 Panel 5: Case Studies: Strengthening Community Resilience Through Environmental Justice
Moderated by: Arianne Teherani, Committee Member & Professor of Medicine and Education Scientist, Director for Program Evaluation and Education Continuous Quality Improvement, and Founding Co-Director of the University of California Center for Climate Health and Equity, University of California, San Francisco
Speaker 1:
How do you see justice and the balancing of power as a cornerstone to advancing change around the climate crisis?
Alaí Reyes-Santos, Committee Member & Professor of Practice, School of Law, University of Oregon and Associate Director, Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice
Speaker 2:
What useful tools exist to build these relationships among diverse stakeholder groups, sectors, and communities?
Jesse Keenan, Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate, School of Architecture, Tulane University
Potential Panel Discussion Questions:
  • How do we build and sustain efforts around DEI in academia when the training is happening while it’s being contested and challenged?
  • How do we embed these efforts in our policies and protect them from external agents who might want to uproot these efforts? And who is included in this and what’s needed to push this initiative?
  • How do you see justice and the balancing of power as a cornerstone to advancing change around the climate crisis?
  • What has your experience been like facing resistance to EJ efforts?
  • Who are we including and who can we empower?
  • How can we best allocate resources to communities?
1:00–2:00 Panel 6: Case Studies: Achieving More Durable Solutions Through New Collaborations
Moderated by: Linda Silka, Committee Member & Senior Fellow and Professor Emerita, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, University of Maine
Speaker 1:
Successful collaborations between anchor institutions and communities for resilience building (equitable knowledge and power sharing)
Shina Robinson, Resilience Hubs Manager, Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Speaker 2:
What defines a mutually beneficial partnership and what are tactics to approach working with communities toward racial, economic, environmental, and climate justice?
Mark Lubell, Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy; Director, Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior, University of California, Davis
Potential Panel Discussion Questions:
  • What key learnings can be shared from collaboration with anchor institutions?
  • What does “partnership” mean to you, and what would you say to people and institutions in positions of power about how to approach working with communities toward racial, economic, environmental, and climate justice?
  • What are the ways in which the different partners have different ways of defining a project as successful, and how can this be negotiated within the partnership?
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2:00–2:15 Break
2:15–3:15 Panel 7: Moving Forward to Improved Community Resilience
Moderated by: Raj Pandya, Workshop Planning Committee Member & Vice President of Community Science, American Geophysical Union
Speaker 1:
Themes from previous 3 panels
Raj Pandya, Workshop Planning Committee Member & Vice President of Community Science, American Geophysical Union
Speaker 2:
Durable solutions to advancing environmental justice and improving community resilience
Lisa Arkin, Executive Director, Beyond Toxics
Speaker 3:
Tools and directions to best support efforts to advance transformative change
Shahzeen Attari, Associate Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington
Potential Panel Discussion Questions:
  • How do we encourage people to look into future (forward thinking) and how far into future should we be looking?
  • How to integrate work from different disciplines and sectors to create a new solution?
  • What holistic approaches are most effective? Address the feasibility of these approaches?
  • How to tackle challenges within the political environment or current administration/depolarization?
  • How can we advance changes realistically?
  • Which health equity mechanisms exist?
  • How can the public be mobilized toward resilience?
3:15–4:00 Wrap-Up Discussion
Robyn Wilson, Workshop Chair & Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science, School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, and Daniel Talmage, Workshop Director
4:00 Adjourn
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