Equity, Environmental Justice, and Urban Climate Change

Reckien, Diana; Lwasa, Shuaib; Satterthwaite, David; McEvoy, Darryn; Creutzig, Felix; Montgomery, Mark R.; Schensul, Daniel; Balk, David E.; Khan, Iqbal Alam; Fernandez, Blanca; Brown, Donald A.; Osorio, Juan Camilo; Tovar-Restrepo, Marcela; Sherbinin, Alex de; Feringa, W.F.; Sverdlik, Alice; Porio, Emma; Nair, Abhishek; McCormick, Sabrina; Bautista, Eddie

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“…At the urban scale, the research points to the disproportionate risks from climate change impacts in low‐income communities, the existence of economic and social factors that may undermine or limit community adaptive capacity, the importance of including a diversity of community voices and perspectives in adaptation planning efforts, and the need for equitable allocation of adaptation resources (Reckien et al ., ; Deas et al ., ; Anguelovski et al ., ; Chu et al ., ; NAACP, ; Schlosberg and Collins, ; Bulkeley et al ., ; Ross and Berkes, ).…”

Section: Framing Equity In the Climate Change Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is a widespread awareness that the uneven distribution of climate change impacts combined with preexisting social and economic challenges makes some communities more vulnerable than others (Reckien et al ., ; IPCC, ; Leichenko et al ., ). There is also growing recognition of the need for inclusion of community perspectives, viewpoints, and exigencies into adaptation decision making and planning (Chu et al ., ).…”

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New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report Chapter 6: Community‐Based Assessments of Adaptation and Equity

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Leichenko

Nguyen

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Section: Framing Equity In the Climate Change Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report Chapter 6: Community‐Based Assessments of Adaptation and Equity

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Leichenko

Nguyen

et al. 2019

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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“…Climate change raises equity issues, not only between continents and countries but also between regions, cities, and residents [34,35]. In this century of urbanization, where most people live in cities, the question necessarily turns to who is or will be affected in cities and how.…”

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Geo-Information Tools, Governance, and Wicked Policy Problems

Georgiadou

Reckien

2018

IJGI

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What You See Depends on Where You StandThe emblematic intergovernmental Group of Earth Observations (GEO) sees food, water and energy security, natural hazards, pandemics of infectious diseases, sustainability of key services, poverty, and climate change as societal challenges [1]. In response, GEO is developing an infrastructure of earth observing systems, hardware, and software tools to connect the demand for geo-information with the supply of vast data about the Earth. At the same time, think tanks like the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) observe the complexity and unpredictability of global economic, social, and political developments and develop guidelines to plan and strategize against the odds [2]. We regard the abovementioned societal challenges as wicked policy problems [3]-involving multiple or unknown causes, anticipated and unanticipated effects, and high levels of disagreement among governance stakeholders concerning the nature (and even the existence) of a problem and the appropriateness of solutions. In this Special Issue, we attempt to take the pulse of how we, as geo-information scientists, tackle wicked problems in the global North and South.To get a sense of the number of published articles on the key themes of the Special Issue, we searched the Web of Science for "Tools" AND "GIS" AND "Governance". Figure 1 shows the distribution of the 87 hits. Searching for Methods or Concepts, instead of Tools, brings about 62 and 23 hits, respectively, with a similar distribution. The upward trend in the number of articles in the last few years testifies to a growing interest in the problem and suggests an emergent integration of the "technical" and "social" research clusters in GIScience, which were operating in isolation in the past [4].

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“…Whereas the relation between heat vulnerability and socio-demographic factors, such as age, race, gender, and poverty, is well examined [12][13][14][15][16], the role of economic factors such as different income levels (not only considering the poor and low-income, but also middle-and high-income people) is under-researched. Being a prominent vulnerability factor, income may play an important role in how citizens experience heat waves.…”

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“…However, adaptation cannot be delivered by a top-down process, particularly in vulnerable urban communities, where residents' views to impacts and adaptation needs and perceptions go often unheard and unrecognized [14]. Much in contrast the perception and views of vulnerable populations have to be integrated and made a vital part of adaptation planning, as citizens' act on their beliefs and perceptions [24], which is vitally important for the success of adaptation on all levels-individual to community.…”

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What do New Yorkers Think about Impacts and Adaptation to Heat Waves? An Evaluation Tool to Incorporate Perception of Low-Income Groups into Heat Wave Adaptation Scenarios in New York City

Matmir

Reckien

Flacke

2017

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Low-income residents are among the most vulnerable groups to climate change in urban areas, particularly regarding heat stress. However, their perceptions about heat and the impacts they face go often undocumented, and are seldom considered in decision-making processes delivering adaptation. This paper presents a robust tool to allow the integration of perception, concerns and impacts of different income groups in urban adaptation planning and governance, using the City of New York as a case study. Employing online interviews-a solid method to reach poorer households-and Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping, we compare impacts and adaptation perception to heat and simulate adaptation scenarios. Results reveal that lower income groups are more concerned about impacts of heat waves than middle-and high-income populations. All income groups see citizens more in charge of adaptation, although more people from the lower income groups regard it necessary to do much more to protect themselves, proportionately more people from the higher income groups think they are doing the right amount. The scenario analysis shows that, compared to investments in the water/electricity and health system, improvements in the transit system would yield the largest decrease in negative impacts during heat, benefitting all income groups jointly.

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Equity, Environmental Justice, and Urban Climate Change

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New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report Chapter 6: Community‐Based Assessments of Adaptation and Equity

New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report Chapter 6: Community‐Based Assessments of Adaptation and Equity

Geo-Information Tools, Governance, and Wicked Policy Problems

What do New Yorkers Think about Impacts and Adaptation to Heat Waves? An Evaluation Tool to Incorporate Perception of Low-Income Groups into Heat Wave Adaptation Scenarios in New York City

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