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Aerial imagery in four tiles to show environmental conditions around prisons.

Leveraging Earth science data to heighten awareness of environmental injustices within the U.S. prison system ​

Topic
Risk & Resilience
Equity and Environmental Justice
Capacity Building
Disasters
Health & Air Quality
Leveraging Earth science data to heighten awareness of environmental injustices within the U.S. prison system ​ Team: Dr. Carrie Chennault (Colorado State University; Prison Agriculture...

Green infrastructure solutions to support flood mitigation and adaptation in coastal low-lying disadvantaged communities

Topic
Urban Development
Risk & Resilience
Equity and Environmental Justice
Disasters
Team Members: Narcisa G. Pricope (University of North Carolina Wilmington and Mississippi State University), Leah Mayo (University of North Carolina Wilmington), Joanne Halls (University of...
Visualization of mean smoke fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from the Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System (CMAQ; Wilkins et al. 2018) and average maximum temperatures from gridMET (Abatzoglou 2011) from August 2008, alongside a census-tract level indicator of poverty (CalEnviroScreen 4.0). Darker red shades indicate higher PM2.5 exposure, temperatures, and poverty.

Mapping Vulnerable Populations in California to Climate-Related Hazards

Topic
Climate
Risk & Resilience
Equity and Environmental Justice
Team: Paul English (Tracking California); Michael Jerrett (University of California, Los Angeles); Joseph Wilkins (Howard University, Inc.); Michelle Wong (Tracking California); Jenny Nguyen (University of...

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