Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
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December 4, 2024
Equitable Climate Futures initiative kicks off with faculty town hall
The initiative is a means to kick-starting interdisciplinary teams to address environmental issues.
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The town hall convened researchers from IBES, the School of Public Health, the Watson Institute, the Swearer Center, the Medical School, and more.
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Brown’s Equitable Climate Futures initiative is looking to bridge the gap between research and community action. The initiative kicked off Nov. 22 with a town hall for interested faculty members.
ECF plans to create two or three working groups to engage in community-oriented climate research by bringing together interdisciplinary teams of researchers and community members.
For Baylor Fox-Kemper, a faculty director of ECF and professor of earth, environmental and planetary science, the initiative is “science meets social sciences meets outlooks for climate change.”
The working groups will consist of at least two lead investigators guiding transdisciplinary teams of researchers and community experts, thereby bringing a new perspective to the traditional structure of projects led by a single principal investigator, according to Elizabeth Fussell, a faculty director of ECF and professor of population studies and environment and society.