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

Foster, Sheila R.; Leichenko, Robin; Nguyen, Khac Kiem; Blake, Reginald; Kunreuther, Howard; Madajewicz, Malgosia; Petkova, Elisaveta P.; Zimmerman, Rae; Corbin-Mark, Cecil; Yeampierre, Elizabeth; Tovar, Angela; Herrera, Cynthia; Ravenborg, Daron

doi:10.1111/nyas.14009

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“…An explicitly stated dimension of the urban climate research and action agenda is that it should incorporate a range of perspectives to be meaningful and successful. Knowledge cannot only be generated from experts and climate professionals but also from a variety of local and indigenous formal and informal knowledge sources 26 . The cogeneration of knowledge during which scientists listen and understand the existing insights, experiences, and needs of urban residents is now recognized as critical to advancing the coproduction of new science and enhancing the capacity for successful action.…”

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“…The cogeneration of knowledge during which scientists listen and understand the existing insights, experiences, and needs of urban residents is now recognized as critical to advancing the coproduction of new science and enhancing the capacity for successful action. Furthermore, the work needs to recognize upfront issues of equity and justice particularly with respect to climate impacts and vulnerabilities and implications of public policy 26,27 . Equity and justice concerns are not only present across and between communities but also at global scales (i.e., involving debates between the Global North and Global South countries) 12 .…”

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“…• Engaging networks, particularly at the subnational level such as city, scientific, grassroot, and community organizations 12,26,39 . By definition, many of these networks are highly localized to specific cities or home regions (e.g., Durban (South Africa) Research Action Partnership, the Miami (Florida) Climate Alliance, and the Santiago (Chile) Climate Ambition Alliance).…”

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Accelerating climate research and action in cities through advanced science-policy-practice partnerships

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Cities have become increasingly recognized as key sites for climate research and action. Recently, these efforts have been significantly advanced through science-policy-practice partnerships. The objective of this paper is to assess how these partnerships are structured, the research and action agenda that underpins them, and how this agenda is being articulated and implemented. The assessment also helps to define some of the conceptual and operational gaps faced by the science-policy-practice community and how they can be addressed. The work evaluates the critical conditions for promoting these advances including the definition and fulfillment of knowledge needs, the integration of different perspectives and approaches, establishment of pathways to finance the urban climate research and action community, and creation and promotion of new partnerships. The paper concludes with a series of strategies and recommendations for how targeted policy adjustments can accelerate and support the production of actionable knowledge and this integrated researcher-policymaker-practitioner community.

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“…How these solutions are deployed can support or hinder other societal priorities such as the broader environment, equity, economic development, jobs, and public health. Procedural equity, the broad inclusion of stakeholders in policy decision-making and implementation (Foster et al 2019;, will be particularly important in addressing the needs of communities in Georgia who are most vulnerable to climate change. Ongoing analysis focused on these beyondcarbon considerations is intended to highlight potential impacts and flag examples of best practices.…”

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Translating a Global Emission-Reduction Framework for Subnational Climate Action: A Case Study from the State of Georgia

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Subnational entities are recognizing the need to systematically examine options for reducing their carbon footprints. However, few robust and comprehensive analyses are available that lay out how US states and regions can most effectively contribute. This paper describes an approach developed for Georgia—a state in the southeastern United States called “Drawdown Georgia”, our research involves (1) understanding Georgia’s baseline carbon footprint and trends, (2) identifying the universe of Georgia-specific carbon-reduction solutions that could be impactful by 2030, (3) estimating the greenhouse gas reduction potential of these high-impact 2030 solutions for Georgia, and (4) estimating associated costs and benefits while also considering how the solutions might impact societal priorities, such as economic development opportunities, public health, environmental benefits, and equity. We began by examining the global solutions identified by Project Drawdown. The resulting 20 high-impact 2030 solutions provide a strategy for reducing Georgia’s carbon footprint in the next decade using market-ready technologies and practices and including negative emission solutions. This paper describes our systematic and replicable process and ends with a discussion of its strengths, weaknesses, and planned future research.

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“…For example, in New York City (NYC), heat waves disproportionately cause blackouts in low-income neighborhoods (Con Edison Media Relations 2019;Ortiz et al, 2022) and non-Hispanic Blacks living in rentassisted housing face higher odds of mortality during warm seasons than other New Yorkers (Madrigano et al, 2015). Disparities persist across hazards (Foster et al, 2019). Lieberman-Cribbin et al (2021) found that higher social vulnerability households were more likely to be exposed to flooding associated with Superstorm Sandy and were more likely to be lower income or older.…”

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Frameworks to envision equitable urban futures in a changing climate: A multi-level, multidisciplinary case study of New York City

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Cities are at the forefront of climate change action and planning for futures that are concomitantly more resilient and equitable, making local goals imperative for global sustainability. Under the multiple challenges of changing climatic, ecological and socio-economic conditions, cities need the means to meet these goals. We know cities are and will continue to be points of concentrated and diverse populations, socioeconomic vulnerability, amplified exposure, transformed ecosystems and are responsible for the bulk of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, much is also unknown and intrinsically uncertain about urban futures: there is a range of potential plausible futures which have differing implications for both potential mitigation and adaptation actions. To better assess these plausible futures, the “global change” research community developed a framework including scenarios that are applicable for global and regional policy, entitled the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) and scenarios exploring future emissions that will drive climate change, entitled Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). Importantly, this global scale framework does not include specific city-level perspectives or data at the spatial scales necessary to address questions of local relevance. While the SSPs address many of the key population and socioeconomic drivers of climate change, they do not address important concerns that are particularly relevant to cities, such as racial justice, ecosystem change or migration. Nevertheless, city-level impacts will evolve, in part, as a function of the global scale change characterized by the SSPs, and in part based on demographic and social processes already underway. As such, applying a modification of this framework to cities has the potential to help limit local climate impacts, and create a more resilient, equitable city. To address these needs and respond to city and regional stakeholders, we propose a framework for science-based narratives and quantitative projections for cities and metropolitan areas, such as Greater New York City. In this paper, we review a wide-range of existing approaches to generate estimates of future populations and identify their vulnerabilities to climate-change hazards, ranging from subnational population projections or the spatially-explicit allocation of populations linked to SSPs for the US and selected cities, city-specific population forecasting without climate considerations, and participatory approaches to future scenario development and fine-scale, within-city land use change models. By showcasing the strengths and limitations of various approaches and modeling efforts, their spatial and temporal scales, and thematic breadth, we propose a novel framework that leverages state-of-the art quantitative approaches and couples it with stakeholder engagement that can help cities plan equitably under uncertainty.

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

Cited by 69 publications

References 77 publications

Accelerating climate research and action in cities through advanced science-policy-practice partnerships

Accelerating climate research and action in cities through advanced science-policy-practice partnerships

Translating a Global Emission-Reduction Framework for Subnational Climate Action: A Case Study from the State of Georgia

Frameworks to envision equitable urban futures in a changing climate: A multi-level, multidisciplinary case study of New York City

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