Environmental Justice & Social Science Pillar Overview
goals & objectives
To use earth system science & engineering to promote environmental and climate justice:
Improve our understanding of the social dimension of earth system problems
Help build a just future through equitable distribution of environmental risks
Facilitate participation of all groups in environmental decision making
Mitigate the disproportional impacts of extreme events on disadvantaged communities
BENEFITS & impacts
TBD
CROSS PILLAR COLLABORATIONS
TBD
2022-2024 PLAN
Identifying new members and collaborators.
Bridging the social science-earth science/engineering gap
Identifying our potential areas of contributions, strengths and weaknesses
Strengthening our connections with the policy making communities and stakeholders at the loca, regional, national, and international scale
Exploring the opportunities for collaboration with the United Nations University Resource Nexus AID Programme
Promoting our contributions to Environmental Justice
Fundraising
ongoing activites
Integrating environmental justice into NWS services to reduce the vulnerability of Historically Underserved Socially Vulnerable Communities (HUSVCs) to extreme weather events (NOAA)
Studying the effect of urban heat islands and their relationship with environmental justice.
Providing mentored student research opportunities to achieve equity and environmental justice Supported by CUNY BRESI, 2022-23”