Day 3 of the ECHO Network Knowledge Exchange Sessions on “Honouring Complexity: Making Space to Address Cumulative Impacts, Climate Change and Co-Benefits”

This panel and discussion will profile examples of ‘health in watersheds’ work underway across the ECHO Network, with an emphasis on environment, community and health connections, and the important data and integration challenges that arise when working at the watershed scale. Panelists and discussants will profile experiences across a variety of watershed scales across Canada and Oceania, ranging from continental to coastal marine systems. An
interactive discussion will explore new opportunities to amplify integrative approaches to ‘health in watersheds’ especially when combined with commitments to profile Indigenous knowledges, champion equity and foreground ecological perspectives.

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Identify and describe strengths and weaknesses of using the watershed scale for understanding environment, community and health connections;
• Understand more about the ways that human and ecosystem data are collected with different objectives, at different scales and have different privacy constraints;
• Discuss how working in watersheds can reveal diverse pathways of connection among environment, equity and health, as well as unmask inequities across different contexts;
• Discuss opportunities for data-informed approaches to health in watersheds, to inform community-driven, and integrative approaches to land, water and health (ranging from Indigenous-led work through to watershed governance and research);
• Learn new terms for understanding watershed and catchments from different territories and languages in Canada and Oceania.

To register, visit: https://unbc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50sf-CtpjopH9ajh60dH8jJG2CfSVmdYhJh