Living With Water Podcast

Just Adapt to Rising Sea Levels with Tira Okamoto

How can coastal communities adapt to climate change in ways that are both effective and just? In Episode 3, "Just Adapt to Rising Sea Levels," Tira Okamoto introduces the Just Adapt Framework, an approach she developed to help planners embed justice and equity into coastal adaptation processes. Tira shares how the framework supports decision-makers in recognizing and incorporating community culture, values, and knowledge at every stage of planning.

The Post-Disaster Window with Felicia Watterodt

In November 2021, the southern mainland of British Columbia experienced its most destructive flooding event in recent history, with a declared state of emergency and the evacuation of over a thousand homes. Felicia Watterodt has been researching social and political movement surrounding this event in an effort to understand actionable and implementable change. In Episode 2, "The Post Disaster Window" Felicia shares what she has learned. 

Unsettling Nature-based Solutions with Anwen Rees

Planning scholar Anwen Rees noticed the importance of conduct in the nature-based solutions space, particularly in settler-colonial contexts like Canada. Today she is foregrounding her research with a framework for new governance systems. In this debut episode, culture journalist Kara Crabb sits down with Rees to discuss. 
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