Hi, everyone. My name is Vicki Chang. I'm a research associate at SRDC, and
it is my pleasure to be here today, and thank you for joining us.
So, over the next 3 slides, I will walk you through our research methodology.
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So, our research questions are guided by four areas of inquiry that help us understand how community can better prepare for and respond to
climate emergencies in inclusive ways. So first, we explore the context and how past climate-related events have impacted communities and
assess our, the current emergency responses, for inclusivity.
Second, we engage people with disabilities and people with diverse backgrounds to explore the lived experiences
and the diverse needs of people with disabilities regarding accessible climate emergency planning.
Our questions also aim to identify existing and potential community collaboration
and surface capacities in addressing those intersectional needs.
And lastly, we look at which standards and policies can really enhance the capacity of service providers
to better support people with disabilities during climate emergencies.
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So, for us to address and answer these questions, we use a case study approach
combining multiple research methods. We are conducting 3 case studies, first in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
second, in Cape Brenton, Nova Scotia, and a third community is to be determined.
So for each, we started, we start with document and literature review to understand
the community context, and then conduct interviews with people with disabilities
community experts and service providers. And this will allow us to capture
diverse perspectives, and how the community works together.
and we will hold, knowledge-sharing activities to validate findings and to provide reports in bilingual and accessible formats.
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Thanks. So, our research is guided by 3 complementary frameworks.
First is intersectionality, and which we have touched on earlier. This helps us understand
how disability intersects with race, gender, individuality, and location, and together really creates distinct experiences during emergencies.
Second, the second framework is the person-centered Emergency Preparedness Framework, which is known as the Capability Wheel.
It's developed by the University of Sydney's Collaborating for Inclusion project team in Australia
it exempts individual agencies across eight areas, like social connectedness, transportation and house management.
The last framework is the sociocultural activity theory. It's a system-based theory that helps us understand how people, organizations,
policies and resources interact across emergency management phases.
We have drawn on Collaborating for Inclusion's application of this theory to also explore the collaborations required on this topic.