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How can participatory data be used to tackle environmental justice?
Extreme heat is the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States, more than hurricanes and tornadoes combined. Heat extremes are particularly deadly in densely populated urban centers, with extreme temperatures disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable community members.
By empowering community members to conduct their own research and identify insights from their own localized experiences, they can be apart of producing complex research that informs the work of climate justice advocates and policymakers, putting the power in their hands to make change through research.
UrbanHeatATL is an environmental citizen science research organization that works was to guide community members in using handheld temperature sensors to gather, map, and analyze urban heat data from their very own neighborhoods in order for those most at risk to contribute scientific research around Atlanta’s heat islands.