Climate Resilience
Many of GAVA’s neighborhoods of focus are disproportionately impacted by flooding and other climate stressors. This is due to a combination of changing rainfall and drought patterns made more intense by climate change, and the cumulative impact of inequitable land use, watershed management, and real estate practices in Austin and across Texas. GAVA supports residents to identify, initiate, and lead efforts to reduce the negative impacts of flood risks, extreme heat, grass fire risks, and other climate shocks and stressors that strain community health and the ability of residents to stay in their neighborhoods. GAVA teams identify infrastructural priorities and co-create initiatives and programs that increase community and city-level preparedness in natural disasters while creating green career pathways within the most impacted neighborhoods.
Residents can get involved in any of our flood mitigation projects in South Austin or heat mitigation work in North Austin
Institutional stakeholders can get involved by lending their expertise toward climate justice, flood mitigation, and natural disaster management
Climate Resilience Lead Organizer Frances Acuña meets with UT students to discuss E. Williamson Creek.
Residents walk & clean up E. Williamson Creek.
Interested in getting involved?
Use the contact form below!