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Climate Change Adaptation

While most of the Community, Environment, and Justice Research Group (CEJRG) work focuses on climate change mitigation and fostering sustainability, it is also important to recognize that climate change is already negatively affecting millions of people, with socially marginalized groups being among the most vulnerable to these impacts. Psychology can make important contributions here by understanding how people assess risks and how they are able to cope. We have investigated the vulnerability to climate change of people experiencing homelessness and older adults in Waterloo region.

Projects

Publications

  • Wandel, J., Riemer, M., de Gómez, W., Klein, K., de Schutter, J., Randall, L., Morrison, M., Poirier, S., & Singleton, C. (2010). Homelessness and Global Climate Change: Are we ready? A report from the study on the vulnerability to global climate change of people experiencing homelessness in Waterloo Region. Waterloo, ON.

Presentations and Talks

  • Hey, B., Eady, A., Riemer, M., Wilson, A. (2017) Reducing social vulnerability to climate change and extreme weather events. The role of risk perception in a social environmental context. Paper presented at the 2015 Biennial Conference of the Society for Community, Research, and Action, Ottawa, ON. June 21-24, 2017.
  • Eady, A., Wilson, A. E., Riemer, M., Silins, S., Alton, D. (2015, June). Reducing social vulnerability to climate change and extreme weather events: the role of risk perception in a social environmental context. Round table discussion to be presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Ottawa, ON
  • Riemer, M. & DeGomez (2011). Homelessness and global climate change. Paper presented at the 2011 Community University Expo, Waterloo, ON, May 11-14, 2011.
  • Riemer, M., Klein, K., & de Schutter, J, (2010). Reducing the vulnerability of people experiencing homelessness to the human impacts of global climate change. Paper presented at the 2010 National Conference on Community Psychology, University of Ottawa, May 20-22, 2010.
  • Wandel, J., Riemer, M., DeGomez, W., Klein, K. (2009). Reducing the vulnerability of the urban homeless to climate change. Paper presented at the 2009 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change “Earth System Governance: People, Places and the Planet”, Amsterdam, Dec 2-4.

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