UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation will be a founding partner of a knowledge-sharing hub to identify and evaluate policies, protocols and lessons for heat resilience, the university announced Monday.
The hub, known as the Center of Excellence for Heat Resilient Communities, is funded by a $2.25 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It will focus on strategies for local, data-driven heat mitigation and management in disadvantaged communities, according to the school.
Rising temperatures and more frequent, prolonged heat waves present a growing and inequitable threat to the health, economies, and security of communities everywhere, UCLA officials said.
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“Some communities have begun to plan for heat, but most lack the capacity or resources to engage in comprehensive planning,” Luskin Center for Innovation associate director V. Kelly Turner said in a statement. “With this grant, we …
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