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Led by Dr. Paty Romero-Lankao, Canadian Excellence in Research Chair for Sustainability Transitions and Professor of Sociology, UofT Scarborough, CERC NEST uses a transdisciplinary and comparative approach with communities and city actors in Toronto, Los Angeles and Mexico City to envision community aspirations for addressing climate vulnerabilities and empowering action to enable and catalyze equity in urban sustainability transitions in Canada and worldwide.
The CERC Network is running a community science initiative that will combine air quality monitoring by residents, and by Dr. Arthur Chan’s lab, with vulnerability analysis. This will create actionable knowledge to mitigate wildfire-associated health risks such as those experienced by Toronto residents in the summer of 2023.