Thursday, November 16, 11:30-2:30pm, Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center, 2201 Fred Taylor Dr.

Climate change is the defining global environmental justice, human rights, and public health issue of the twenty-first century. The most vulnerable populations will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks because of where they live, their limited income and economic means, and their lack of access to health care. Climate-sensitive hazards are forecast to increase in the coming years. However, not all of the populations residing within these hazard zones have the same capacity to prepare for, respond to, cope with, and rebound from disaster events.

Having worked on environmental and climate issues in the U.S. and around the world, Professor Robert D. Bullard’s talk focuses on the need for empowering vulnerable populations, identifying environmental justice and climate change “hot-spot” zones, and designing fair, just and effective adaptation, mitigation, emergency management and community resilience and disaster recovery strategies.

He will also discuss his book, The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities, which analyzes more than eight decades of differential government response to natural and human-made disasters.

Finally, Dr. Bullard will offer strategies to dismantle institutional policies and practices that create, exacerbate, and perpetuate inequality and vulnerability before and after disasters strike.

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Hosted by OSU College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.