SESSION 5: The Second Foundational Focus: Ensure a “Just Transition” by Building Healthy, Just, Equitable, Zero-Emission & Climate-Resilient Regenerative Built, Economic, and Ecological Conditions
PRESENTERS: Bob Doppelt, ITRC Coordinator; Ruben Cantu, Director of Prevention Institute Safety and Wellbeing Team; and Tamira Jones Machado, Director of Capacity Building, National Association of Community Resilience Planners.
PROGRAM:
The meaning and importance of a "just transition" for the climate emergency.
The impacts of structural drivers of health inequities on communities and methods to alter community conditions that support the drivers.
The importance of and methods to create safe, healthy, just and equitable, zero-emission, climate-resilient and ecologically regenerative local physical/built conditions to prevent and heal individual, community, and societal mental health and psychosocial problems.
The importance of and methods to create locally-owned zero-emission regenerative businesses and family-wage jobs to prevent and heal mental health and psychosocial problems.
The importance of and methods to protect and regenerate local forests, watersheds, soils, biodiversity, and air quality to prevent and heal individual, community, and societal traumas.
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