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(SMART = Systems Mapping and Policy Redesign for Adaptation and Resilience Transformation) This is an international project proposed to use a decolonial planetary health framework that integrates artistic, place-based, digital approaches to redesign systems and policies for climate disasters and displacement. The goal of the project is to move away from deficient, top-down, reactive climate displacement policy approaches to ones that […]

Drivers of the triple planetary crisis (climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution) are colonialism, capitalism, extractivism, globalization, and racism, underpinned by policies, systems, and structures that reinforce these worldviews. For collective futures that sustain all planetary life, we must respond with urgency and creativity across political and epistemic boundaries toward reconciling the damage we have

The IEHRA project, led by Dr Diana Lewis, explores the community health impacts of living near oil and gas extraction (Mikisew Cree First Nation, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Fort Chipewyan Métis Nation) and a landfill site (Oneida Nation of the Thames). Through a community-engaged process and informed by our previous research with Pictou Landing First

Extreme weather events, including wildfires, floods, heatwaves, droughts, atmospheric rivers, hurricanes and other storms, displace millions of people around the world every year. These events displace hundreds of thousands of people in Canada, cost tens of billions of dollars, and exacerbate a wide range of health inequities, disrupt homes, livelihoods, education, community cohesion, and have