Five Key Needs for Addressing Flood Injustice
Better data and assessment metrics—and improved researcher involvement in communities—are needed to understand and redress inequitable vulnerabilities to and recoveries from flooding.
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Better data and assessment metrics—and improved researcher involvement in communities—are needed to understand and redress inequitable vulnerabilities to and recoveries from flooding.
Indie Lens Pop-Up and RiverRun Present “Razing Liberty Square”
Last July, 165 volunteers collected heat data around the two cities. Data results paint a clearer picture of which neighborhoods experience more heat.
Low income communities of color in urban areas are more likely to experience extreme heat because of historically unequal policies and investment around development and zoning. A new, national effort hopes to identify and eventually address these "urban heat islands."