
Isabelle Kennedy is a graduate student, qualitative researcher, and sociologist affiliated with Boston College. Her research interests include community level impacts of climate change, social implications of natural disasters, including displacement and migration, and issues of social justice. She spent the past three years interviewing survivors from the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, California about their experiences, and the challenges and hardships they faced during subsequent periods of displacement. Her research asks the questions, in what ways do social systems of disaster evacuation, displacement, and recovery produce and exacerbate social inequality over time? What steps can be taken to address these sources of inequality as a part of resilience planning processes?
Sessions in which Isabelle Kennedy participates
- After Paradise: Inequalities Resource Access and Resilience After the 2018 Camp Fire
- 15:00 EDT - 16:00 EDT | 1 hour
- As a result of anthropogenic climate change, the length and severity of wildfire seasons in the Sierra Nevada has doubled since the 1970s....
- Communications libres
Sessions in which Isabelle Kennedy attends
- Opening conference
- 9:00 EDT - 10:30 EDT | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The opening conference will be held in a panel format. Two speakers will make a presentation and then participate in a discussion. The opening c...
- Activités participatives
- Understanding the capabilities of communities through non-traditional discovery
- 11:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Reconciliation with indigenous peoples across the globe has provided us the opportunity to understand the importance of respecting and appreciat...
- Communications libres
- Changing the Culture of Preparedness Through Youth
- 15:00 EDT - 16:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Our presentation provides an example of how the 4 central themes of the summit are brought together by building capacity through youth engagemen...
- Communications libres
- Building Community Resilience: Disaster Risk Reduction in a Changing Climate
- 15:00 EDT - 16:30 EDT | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Climate change is and will continue to impact the systems that make-up and support communities globally (e.g. financial systems, health systems,...
- Activités participatives