فیلم تجربه های مشترک در تقویت تنظیمات قابل قبول و عادلانه برای تطبیق به آب و هوا

Title:Shared Experiences in Advancing Inclusive and Equitable Climate Adaptation

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قسمتی از متن فیلم: Hello everyone and happy world town planning day my name is Maggie Kraus and I am the APA staff liaison to divisions interest groups and the divisions Council so thanks so much for joining us this morning world town planning day is an opportunity to unite planners and celebrate planning around the globe so

This morning we’re pleased to present this conference which is hosted and facilitated by the international division and it’s going to cover topics spanning resilience environmental regulations and sustainable cities just want to share a few items before we begin today’s program will be recorded and shared on the world Town Planning

Day web page at Planning org there you will also find information about how to claim cm credit for today’s programs next we’re going to save some time at the end of the presentation for questions so if you have a question I encourage you to use the questions panel

On the navigation bar which is on the right side of your screen finally I encourage everyone to join the conversation on social media today by using the hashtag WT PD 2019 so with that I’ll hand it over to rady so from the international division hello everyone welcome to the webinar my name

Is rhea equipment and I am the APA international divisions world time planning the online conference coordinator the title of this webinar is shared experiences and advancing inclusive and equitable climate adaptation I will now welcome our panelists drew Curtis is the senior equitable development manager at the Ironbound community corporation robyn Lysenko is

Professor and chair of geography at Rutgers University and the co-director of the Rutgers climate Institute cablecorp is a director of resilience for the waterfront Alliance overseeing the organization’s portfolio of resilience works Jeanne herb directs the environmental analysis and communications group at Rutgers University Lutheran School Sarah van cherry is a coastal management

Specialist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s office for coastal management hi hi everyone thanks so much for the introduction again my name is gene herb I’m with the records University blasting school what I’d like to do is to take just a few minutes to talk you through a

Project that we’re working on here that’s been supported by NOAA I believe my project manager Michael Kolber from the New Jersey Department Environment Protection is probably joining us as well the project’s titled a seat at the table integrating socially vulnerable populations into climate resilience planning it’s a project of

Special merit which is funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration here in the United States and has been awarded to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in partnership with with us with Rutgers University we also have a great project working group which includes a really interesting group of partners which

Include public health professionals which includes social service providers that work with socially vulnerable populations from throughout the state includes environmental justice and frontline community representatives and also different organizations that work with people who live in poverty people who have issues associated with health inequities and other challenges that praise socially vulnerable populations

What you see in front of you is a little infographic that our our project working group came up with that represents some of the concepts that have been emerging as part of our our project as we’ve spent some time talking to key informants throughout the project and also engaging residents in socially

Vulnerable communities to talk about some of the challenges that vulnerable populations face associated with climate resilience so the objectives of the project we have three objectives of the project the first is to enhance access to data regarding socially vulnerable populations to allow planners to be able to have better access to data to

Understand what populations have inherent vulnerabilities to climate impacts and to be able to understand the vulnerabilities that those populations in those communities face to be able to better address some of the inherent vulnerabilities that those populations face the second objective is to develop guidance and outreach materials to work

With planners and other resilience professionals to help them to better understand how to engage socially vulnerable populations as part of resilience planning and then the third is to offer recommendations for policy changes particularly policy changes associated with coastal management and coastal management policies to better improve the integration of social

Vulnerability part of resilience planning so to kind of give you a sense of how we’re viewing resilience planning or where we’re kind of fitting in so the first the first bar here reflects on emergency management and recovery which is the the concept or the activity associated with recovery immediately after a disaster

Event so those kinds of days and weeks right after an event there’s certainly opportunities to address the needs of vulnerable populations and vulnerable communities with regard to emergency management and recovery but that’s not really the focus of the work that we’re doing we’re really focused on the second

Bar which is climate resilience planning which is working in communities and with residents with planners and communities to think forward to think about what communities are facing in the future with changing climate conditions to better understand what communities can be doing now to adapt to those future conditions to better understand what

Changes can happen in communities to build resilience now for those future conditions a third sort of really interesting and emerging approach to resilience planning is what I framing as equity driven community-based Risk Reduction strategies which other folks on the panel will be talking about which is very much leading with equity as a

Core fundamental approach to driving reducing risk as a result risk that comes from changing climate conditions and looking at addressing the underlying structural inequities in a community the place that we are the sort of sweet spot that we’re finding right now in terms of the work that we’re doing and again in

Part because this is coming from a coastal resilience program and funded to NOAA is that second bar in terms of longer term climate resilience planning with a focus on coastal hazards and and coastal and coastal policies so as we think about resilience the the traditional and typical definition of resilience is the

Ability of a community bounce back after hazardous events including hurricanes coastal storms and flood hazards including not necessarily just extreme weather events but also sea level rise and sunny day flooding social vulnerability is often defined as the degree to which a community which so again what I want to stress here is the

Degree to which a community as well as individuals exhibit social conditions such as high poverty low percentage of vehicle access or crowded households and the extent to which those those characteristics may affect the community’s ability to be resilient after a disaster or after changing or as a result of changing climate conditions

The Centers for Disease Control has the US Centers for Disease Control has put together an index the sei index which is the Box on the left of the slide here shows you the indicators that are used in the CDC svi index and they’re organized in four categories socioeconomic status household

Composition and disability minority status and language and housing and transportation and so the other boxes to the right of those four scenes show you what the specific indicators are that are on this this CDC index this is a very helpful index in terms of starting to better understand who are the

Populations within a community that have inherent social vulnerability and the extent to which an overall community may exhibit overall vulnerabilities as part of the work that we’ve been doing we have been using the CDC index to better understand what some challenge is a community may face but what we’ve also

Done is we spent some time talking to community organisations social service organizations and then also residents to better understand what are some other populations that may also be vulnerable in addition cities that have been identified by the Centers for Disease Control and some of the additional vulnerabilities that we’ve identified

Are in addition to poverty but work or is that the concept of families that are working poor so historically the conversation with regard to social vulnerability is that is is thinking about poverty and poverty levels but what we’re hearing more and more is that those indices of poverty are often

Limiting and we really need to start to think about people that are working may even have health insurance but are still not able to kind of keep meat keep the end meet their end at the end of a month pay all their bills maybe them paying their bills but they’re not really able

To fully be resilient because they’re that it’s just very tight in their households second is definitely veterans communities that are historically under invested in as a result of potentially structural racism potentially just disinvestment overall in terms of historic trends in the United States and then another category that has been

Raised that’s not reflected in the CDC index are communities that experience disproportionate environmental burden so these are some categories that we’ve been exploring so again as part of one of the objectives and tasks here is to look to complement the CDC index with gathering additional data and making data available to practitioners here

Here in New Jersey so another task that we’ve undertaken is that we’ve as I mentioned we spent a lot of time talking to key informants so different leaders here in New Jersey who work with socially vulnerable populations and then also we’ve done some focus groups with with residents so there’s six kind of

Messages that we that we’ve heard from from this engagement the little blue call-out box at the top is is actually a quote that we that we received as part of this engagement so these six messages and the messages that we’ve heard are consistent from the focus groups with

Residents as well as what we’ve heard from some of the key informants who work closely with with socially vulnerable populations so number one is that the concept of vulnerability is a factor of individuals as well as whole communities oftentimes when I think historically or traditionally when there’s a and

Particularly in the emergency management context when we think about vulnerability we think about individuals we think about how we going to evacuate a senior citizen or how we going to attend to a person who maybe needs oxygen right if there’s going to be a power outage or how we’re going to take

Care of people who have physical disabilities but what we’re hearing more and more and learning more and more is that the entire community that that may have vulnerabilities whether that’s because of underinvestment or because of disproportion environmental burden so thinking about a community as a whole

And not just as as a set of individuals the second message that we’ve heard is that underlying social inequities and the challenges that are faced as a result are the biggest hurdle to achieving resilience so that whether it’s poverty or racism or limited access to conditions that allow a person to

Live a happy and healthy life whether that’s access to health care or whether it’s access to a living wage job or whether that’s access to transportation services or access to an affordable home all of those challenges are the challenges that really underlie social vulnerability and and what we really heard so loud and

Clear is that for socially vulnerable populations they’re really living on the edge and that the the concept of changing climate conditions even if it’s just a flooding event not even an extreme weather event just a sunny day flooding event is enough to push those populations over the edge a third

Message we heard is that government has a role to play but not the only role and that’s critical that there are developed in partnerships with communities and that more and more capacity becomes integrated into communities we’ve heard that historically socially vulnerable populations don’t have a seat at the

Table and that the same populations that are especially vulnerable to changing climate conditions are the same populations that have historically not been involved in decision-making with regard to their communities we’ve heard that there’s a perception I can’t I can’t confirm whether this is true or not among socially vulnerable populations

That resources that are associated with resilience planning and recovery planning are disproportionately distributed to communities and populations that already have sufficient capacity and then finally another message that we heard loud and clear is that is that participatory processes greater engagement of socially vulnerable populations is definitely an a critical strategy to ensure that

Social vulnerable populations needs addressed as part of resilience planning so what that allows us to think about and this this concept has come from our project workgroup is that that there’s a need to redefine the concept of resilience from bouncing back to the way we were before to the concept of

Bouncing forward bouncing forward to improved conditions where people can live communities that are healthier green or clean or more equitable and more prosperous and more resilient and so this this concept of bouncing forward is something that what we’re realizing is when you’re starting to think about resilience and think about resilience

Through an equity lens so think about resilience through social vulnerability lenses is really that resilience becomes this opportunity it becomes an opportunity for improved communities so in terms of the status of our project this is our little scaffold on the bottom of the slide and in the blue box

Is is a three bullets of the initial tasks that we had underway and and I want to thank our project managers for the design of the project because it was actually very well thought out so the project kind of scaffold on these initial tasks so initially we don’t lit

Review and then we did this stakeholder engagement that I mentioned with some of the clear messages that we’ve heard and then and then we reviewed the Centers for Disease Control data and then we started to look at some of the additional data we can make available for resilience planners the the bullets

Above it with the little arrows are now the tasks that were focused on now and these tasks have scaffolded are built upon those first tests so this is what we’re working on now we’re looking at building additional data set to try to address some of the other elements of

Social vulnerability that we’ve heard about needing to have data on to make available to resilience planners so we’ve identified data for example regarding municipalities that are in overall distress we’ve identified data regarding homelessness we’ve identified data regarding veterans status and and other sets of data such as that and now

We’re compiling these data and and I’ll talk to about that in just a little bit more the second test that we’re focused on is developing training and guidance and policy recommendations so these three tasks of what we’re focused on now in terms of data development and access these are some of

The data that we’re looking at now we’re looking at as I mentioned municipal distress homelessness we’re looking at that asset limited income restraint employed household which is that working poor kind of data we’re looking at the age of housing population density and also that kind of environmental burden

And and and these are all data that we think can help complement the Centers for Disease Control so the issue here with data is not just having more data available to resilience planners here in New Jersey but making it available so these data are going to be are currently

Being developed and they’re going to be made available here in New Jersey publicly through what’s called new jersey flood mapper which is a web-based data visualization and mapping tool that is hosted here at Rutgers University if you google it new jersey flood mapper it’ll take you to it so you can go

Online and make maps and make pretty maps and and map your town and so these data will now become very accessible along with the Centers for Disease Control index which is currently up there on new jersey flood mapper so resilience planners will have access to these data as they as they look to

Engage socially vulnerable populations as part of their resilience planning in terms of our training work we’re going to be developing a training protocol and it’s we’re going to be doing in partnership with with NOAA the objectives of the training work is to really focus on these particular tasks

The training objectives which when we’re done next spring will be publicly available will be I the training will focus on how to identify socially vulnerable populations and communities and to help participants better understand what are the factors that contribute to vulnerability to help participants to understand what in the planning process are there

Opportunities to involve socially vulnerable populations in resilience planning the next is to better understand equity diversity and clusion opportunities and what some of the complexity is associated with EDI as part of community-based planning will certainly be training on how to use the data tools that we’ll be developing and

Then finally the training will also focus on building skills for participatory processes particularly in terms of equitable participatory processes that bring socially vulnerable populations who may not have historically had a seat at the table to the table as part of resilience planning and then finally our last task in the

Project is to pull together some recommendations for the state policy for state policy here in New Jersey again the focus of the policy recommendations will be on coastal policies again because this is a project that has grown out of coastal risk and coastal hazards associated with changing climate

Conditions I suspect we will probably blur lines a little bit in terms of some of those recommendations but that’s a task in the project that’ll sort of come in the last quarter and that’s that will be a focus kind of starting in December until March the overall project will

Come to completion in March of 2020 so thank you very much I hope that gives some some good background and also lays the groundwork for my my other colleagues who are on the panel thank you very much all right good morning y’all again my name is drew

Curtis I get to work for Ironbound community corporation and I’m gonna kind of give an example of how our community has really done resilience planning with that environmental justice and climate justice lens so our organization or a 50 your old multi-service community-based organization really has been that like

Neighborhood anchor for residents to go to doing everything from early childhood education and youth development social services and workforce development and then our environmental justice and community development team that I am a part of that does a lot of the community organizing and advocacy public policy work community planning urban farming

Affordable housing development that’s that stuff too and we’re focused in the Ironbound section of Newark which for those not familiar makes up most of the East Ward of Newark and it’s everything to the east of the Amtrak Northeast Corridor live called Ironbound is literally it’s bound in by rail

Whether it’s freight rail to the south and to the east or to the west and cracklin and then they’re even used to be rail cutting our current the old central railway line that cut across the north side of our neighborhood too so we’re a community of about 50,000 people

It’s always been an immigrant neighborhood today that means a lot of South and Central Americans particularly from Brasil and Equador as well as a significant african-american population for primarily residing in public housing and publicly subsidized housing too and we are a environmental justice community being right next door to the Port of

Newark it’s the second largest in the country Newark Airport of sacred her itself as a superb is the longest Superfund site in the country poisoned by dioxin which was the active ingredient Agent Orange because it was manufactured in our neighborhood to also have the state’s largest garbage incinerator the largest

Wastewater treatment plant on the East Coast and over 150 brownfield sites and many other warehouses and polluting facilities in our neighborhood too like a fat rendering plant um this just talks a little bit more about that too about where some of the sites are located in our community

And then when superstorm sandy hit now seven years ago really was a wake-up call for us that we knew we had to get serious on planning for climate change resilience to these the East End of our neighborhood was really decimated by the storm – and it wasn’t just the storm

Surge that came up in tidal waves in two directions from the Passaic River and then also up from Newark Bay and the Arthur Kill that really just decimated our neighborhood – but it mixed with the brownfield sites active industries etc I know most this toxic flooding – that

Really hit our neighborhood – ended up pouring to people’s homes and basements so you can see here it just gives a little bit of a larger regional context of the storm – it talks about what I was talking about and then this is on top of everyday flooding that we have to deal

With from combined sewer overflow those are just pictures after regular rainfalls that happen in our neighborhood all the time there’s lots of property damage and health issues that are caused by this flooding – and we know with the future of owner ability with sea level rise – and the

Forthcoming FEMA flood maps we’re extremely vulnerable half of our neighborhood will be in a flood zone – so we need to make sure that we’re prepared for what’s happening here so in 2015 we were able to get the support of the Kresge Foundation – as part of their climate resilience and urban opportunity

Program to develop a Newark resiliency action plan that focused on adaptation mitigation and social cohesion – so changing how we do things but also looking to reduce greenhouse gases but make sure that residents are at the heart of this type of work – we partnered with two other organizations

Who and all each the New Jersey environmental justice alliance and then the water fund or each of us focused local planning in a different Ward ourselves here in the East Ward and particularly the South Ironman Tory actually partnered with a PA New Jersey chapter and their pro bono program to to

Help us with some of the locals in the South Ward was water fund and then the West fourth was the New Jersey environmental justice alliance really what our process looked like it starts with like going to residents and making sure that they’re at the heart of the

Work that we’re doing and asking them what are the issues in the neighborhood not even talking about climate change versus talking about the issues and then later introducing some of the climate justice terms and climate change terms – so they understand it then we would bring it up to a citywide multi-sector

Steering committee to get ideas and talk about what’s implementable to address neighborhood issues from there we would draft strategies and then go back to the community first then again go back to the steering committee but again going to the community often and then we’d come up with that final plan and

Implementation I can’t go back to the community – so like one last time to confirm the plan but then also keep working with them as well as our steering committee partners to implement this plan – it’s an iterative process it doesn’t stop once yeah so just some pictures that we’ve been

Doing throughout this process two of both community meetings and stakeholder meetings – so what the five elements of the plan really emerged as community priorities are minimizing flooding and again minimizing that toxic flooding that I was talking about earlier also reducing temperatures and adapting to the heat impacts through the urban heat

Island effect then preparing for and responding to extreme weather situations reducing greenhouse gases and local air pollution for those components that happen in our neighborhood and then minimizing blackouts and stopping the use of dirty energy through both energy efficiency and renewable energy opportunities and we to accomplish these goals we combined policy development

From the local to the federal on-the-ground projects in those three target wards and then community empowerment that were really creating long lasting residents climate justice advocates our goal that I always say is to put ourselves as a nonprofit out of business residents can just keep up the fight and

Take up the fight – we’re not needed that’s the goal of our work again resiliency action is essential – you’re mobilizing residents that we’ve participated in national alliances like the climate justice alliance and their different actions and rallies it’s just the 2014 rally in New York City in March

And then in 2017 in Washington DC for both of them we brought 100 new workers out to participate – then also action at the state level to this other picture is about women around the energy master plan to the state is currently working on two we

Want to make sure that the needs of environmental justice communities are at the forefront we’ve been advancing a lot of green infrastructure in our neighborhood – and it’s something that’s the preferred approaches to dealing with flooding not only because it helps solve flooding but also because of co-benefits like

Reducing urban heat island effect and improving air quality as well – Riverfront Park which opened in actually a couple months before her gain sandy and it served as a natural buffer or before it was a lot of pavement and shipping containers blocking the view it transforms in this green space – which

Prevented flooding while we saw flooding on both sides of the park where the park was it was this natural buffer – so these are the types of things we want to see more of working continuing to develop our resiliency work whether it’s in our East Ironbound neighborhood plan

Or in the South Ironbound plan to the demonstration green district – and again we need to keep doing this ongoing education and even job training – or getting the youth involved – to really to leave is they’re the ones that are going to be most effective moving forward – so getting young adults

Involved but also working to boost incomes there is a lot of money that’s going to be spent millions and if not billions of dollars on making our community more resilient such as with the long-term control plan for combined sewer overflow issues and many other issues and we want to make sure that

Residents get a share of that so they can boost their incomes – and can be more involved in coming up with future solutions – and again we have to be mindful – as we’re building climate resilience we’re not pre-reading – gentrification and displacement – so as we develop new

Clean spaces and green infrastructure in reducing air air pollution and greenhouse gases we’re still allowing that current residents to stay here – so we have to make sure that we have policies in place that we’re preserving our existing low income housing and have strong rent control and tools like right

To counsel legislation and landlord tenant court or inclusionary zoning developing new permanently affordable housing with Community Land Trust and housing cooperatives – we need to make sure that’s mine – so yeah thank you for listening to me and there is my information if you want to learn more

Turn it over to our next panelist great thank you I’m showing my screen now this is Kate boy Court let me just bring it up beautiful game okay hopefully you can see that so so thank you drew and Jean I just want to say that I’m in awe of the

Work that you do on the ground and the full-service operation going on and I rebound community corporation but also the New Jersey climate adaptation Alliance if you have not checked out some of the publications that they’ve got going on we actually cite a lot of their work and

We really have something to stand on as advocates which is really what I’m going to talk about I sit in a slightly different role and we’ll be talking a little bit about how we are developing a campaign essentially to push for some of the policy recommendations that both

Folks like that updation Alliance and also grassroots communities are really raising is their need for adapting in New York and New Jersey and so I’ll talk a little bit about in general the what we’re doing the the problem and sort of how we’re seeing that the lens of the

Problem in our region and a little bit about process of what we’re working on and then really just focus mostly on some of the priorities that are coming out from equity a justice perspective at the federal state and local level in both both states so we

Are okay it is slow Jean I’m not sure how you oh there we go okay so just briefly so sweeping through our organization we are a bi-state organization working in the northern part of New Jersey top six counties from Monmouth to Bergen and all of New York

City and we’re really focused on our waterfront but our waterfront and beyond that and that we want essentially a thriving region for generations to come and we know that we rely on our water for everything we rely on it’s our in New York City it’s our sixth borough in

Largest public space and in New Jersey it ties our communities together and and it’s both incredibly impacted especially in Newark and the Passaic River that where drew is and so you know we we want that to be healthy and thriving and hey we want it to last for generations to

Come and and the people that live here to be able to enjoy this great resource and and just you know manage them their own lives and communities and and succeed so just briefly we’ve got a few programs that we do we certainly are a big convener we’re alliance of over a

Thousand groups from Civic to environmental to Community Development to business to agencies and we’re really focusing you know obviously that that group does not always get along but we you know we do agree that there should be a platform for the waterfront and increasingly everything that we care

About is at risk and I’ll talk a little bit about you know what that is specifically here but we’ve been doing a number of things to do early childhood education getting kids down on the water we are advocates oops and again that’s what I’ll be talking about primarily today is how we

To sort of take a lot of this stuff and advocate in addition to the kind of advocacy that has been done really really build a big platform for in the same way the the greenhouse gas reduction and mitigation community has made some progress in a region we really

Want to see adaptation lifted up as important an issue as reducing our greenhouse gases we do have a program called the waterfront edge design guidelines which is a lead like certification for waterfront projects and through that that’s really available in mine we work with communities and professionals to design better from

Resiliency access and ecology perspective so just briefly a little bit of the lens of the problem we have over a million people in the floodplain today so this is not a problem in the future you know it’s a problem with the present as well as the future just a national

Scale we are twenty billion dollars in debt in the National Flood Insurance Program and in one year alone in 2017 we suffered 317 billion dollars in damages and that’s equivalent to the GDP of Ireland so you know it’s costing us now and we know that we can you know we pay

Less if we invest in resilience now whether that be social resilience ecologic will resilience or infrastructure we also know that as I think a number of our panelists alluded to already that the issue is not distributed equitably and our public housing is disproportionately we have you know many developments in the

Floodplain and also disproportionately we know that higher poverty rates are actually the floodplain thanks to work by the ferment center in both states we actually higher than the average national level in our floodplain so the idea that the floodplain is in coast is a rich place to live it’s actually just

Not true we’ve got both spectrum ends of the spectrum and as Jean alluded to also we’ve seen that federal disaster money actually does favor the rich and it widens wealth gaps along racial lines and there was some really good work done by NPR and others building off a

Research that’s been done by academics that that’s online you can listen to it it’s a great short thing and you know ecologically this is our also with the frontlines and this is something that we’ve lost in our region we’ve lost over 85% of our wetlands already that used to protect us we sold

Them in and we built on top of them and that’s kind of where we are so and there’s more at risk so what can we do about that and also people if you ask people that live through Sandy that lives at the front lines you know they

Know that they’re at risk but a lot of people that might be coming from elsewhere they don’t necessarily know and we actually have the worst grades in the nation for flood risk disclosure in both states but increasingly you know it’s not just about money and I think that’s one thing that we’re really

Trying to hit home and to our garden agencies as well is that we really need to start thinking about the future that we want and the values that that we care about so you know we’re trying to capture that in the policy advocacy that that we will be doing so in order to

Sort of get at that we have been building consensus since early this year as I said with a lot of the Civic environmental frontline environmental justice businesses agencies academics climate scientists housing experts to get together in a resilience taskforce alternating between Newark and New Jersey and trying to bring States

Together to kind of you know figure out what are the things that we need to push for as advocates so we’re kind of in the middle of that process right now I’ve been working with our co-chairs and which I failed to mention we’ve got incredible leadership we have Peggy from

Peggy Shepherd from we act for rural justice and Pete Casa BEC from New Jersey future and also Peter I’m Adonia formerly of the Rockefeller Foundation and really kind of helped develop a hundred resilient cities that are kinda leading us and then we have all these subcommittees that are working on

Different things which you’ll see in this slide including we’ve got two leadership from Ironbound community corporation as well on especially the equity ingest process because you know you guys Drew and others know a lot or than than we do about you know long-term engagement in communities and

How how do we how do we do this equitably so even yet focusing on sort of who pays for this who decides we’ve got governance that’s not really adapted to the challenge what are we aiming for you know what how do we measure this and and what strategies are we are we

Looking for and you know how to make sure it’s equitable and how do we make sure that it reaches people and I think that that is the largest challenge is both you know having a two-way street where the public is aware and aware that it’s an issue that affects them we’ve got over

۴۰۰,۰۰۰ jobs or directly or indirectly connected to our port alone and so if that kind of goes down a lot of the unemployment issues that Jeanne is talking about are worse we’ve got a you know we had a gas crisis after Hurricane sandy I watched the gas lines in my

Neighborhood and in Brooklyn after that storm and it was stark you know and that’s that’s what we we’ve got in our future if we do not prepare so just a sneak peek of some of the things that we will likely be pushing for and we are

Coming out with a draft of this to our resilience task force which represents over 300 individuals and organizations that has been giving us input and then we’re going to continue to kind of vet these priorities amongst grassroots organizations at the front lines and academics and others that have been

Really focusing on this issue so one of the things that I think was mentioned by Jean is supporting individual and collective action and I think you know just process has really been something that’s been kind of missing largely and with the exception of projects and you know organizations like Ironbound kind

Of really going in and facilitating and making sure that communities are actually you know enabled to be part of the decision-making process and at the table another thing that is you know we’re coming into this with public infrastructure that’s pretty much get an F grade or C grade or

Degrade by the American Society that civil engineers across the board and these are the infrastructure whether it be public housing or getting to work on your train these are already in terrible shape so we really need to be investing in those because you know if you don’t

Have a car or you rely on these public infrastructures to live and work that that is something that needs to be in shape another thing we talked a little bit about this but our National Flood Insurance Program really doesn’t have enough focus on equity and there’s a

Great report that sort of suggests that housing burden is really a good way I think you know G might actually have some additions to that based on her research of sort of how to make sure that we’re subsidizing and supporting individuals that that can take action and also preventing with them the

Resources to look at other options including retrofits relocation if they choose and and really providing resources for them to make decisions that are super hard and nobody really wants to make and then also importantly we’re looking at cost-benefit analyses and criteria that our federal and state and local funding sources use I would

Say that there’s a huge process in the region the New York New Jersey harp Harbor and tributary study by the Army Corps of Engineers that really kind of leaves out community decision making as part of the process and we need to be funding that as primary process so that’s sort of

Something that you know we is missing throughout a lot of pieces of the way that we find even if we do mighty we might include equity lenses later on in the process or we might you know nod to them and criteria they really need to be decision making and you know

Prioritization of triple bottom-line solutions and low income and communities of color need to be really integrated into those processes so those are places that we expect to push on and also I think you know a lot of the buyout or acquisition programs that happen after were really in response to Sandy with it

You know exception of New Jersey actually has a robust and existing program that’s been for a long time to acquire areas for conservation land but we you know we didn’t actually have a resources or mission alignment that we needed to to help residents really think about this issue council them provide

Trauma therapy and and also think about how do we how do we provide resources for relocation and not just acquisition and I think our agency so I had to kind of do that on the fly and really need more resources to to get there so that’s

Just a summary of some of the issues that we’ll be pushing on from the equitable in just piece although that there’s others from a governance and funding perspective and I just want to nod quickly before I close you know we’re we’re also going to be standing up

For the issue we piloted this a little bit through City of Water Day this past year through some of our colleagues in New York and and a little bit in Elizabeth New Jersey to stand at the future floodplain line and kind of demonstrate a need for this action and

It’s part of a big action that we expect to do early next year so with that I’ll close and pass it on to our next speaker thank you this is Sarah van de chelly with NOAA’s office for coastal management and I’m just going to quick real quick to let it show my screen

Great so thank you I really appreciate the opportunity to learn from the other panelists and to share the work that our partners are doing and to talk about what we’re striving towards and NOAA’s office for coastal management to support this important work hold on it might be advancing in just

One moment I’ll just let you know that I’m going to provide a short introduction to our often for some context and then share a few examples and then talk about opportunities and is it advancing for you okay well I’ll just keep shopping and hopefully the slides will catch up at

Some point so in our office we do a large part of our work through partnerships we administer the National coastal zone management program the National estuarine research Reserve System and the coral reef conservation program we are also the federal host of the digital coast which is ghost’ an online platform to deliver actionable

Data tools and training to coastal managers and communities and it’s also a partnership with a number of organizations including APA now for additional context for the National CDM program it’s a voluntary state federal partnership and I was hoping to pull up be able to like it out there go so great

Thank you okay so the this is a map that shows the dark blue states and territories on here all participating by implementing programs that manage land and water resources many of these programs support adaptation and resilience planning at the state and local level and our beginning or have

Been thinking about inclusion and equity and how to increase it within their program the other map I wanted to show was the National estuarine research reserve system map there are 29 reserves located around the country and through this system we have an incredible network of place-based partners working in their stewardship research monitoring

Training and education roles with local communities around the country and this is a work table that shows many of the coastal management topics that we focus on in our office and that our partners focus on and all of these issues impact marginalized and vulnerable communities so as we are moving ahead to support

These communities as they work towards solutions we know this is of huge importance and fortunately through the partnership programs I mentioned OPM but our office is learning about lessons and strategies for advancing equity and coastal management so I’m going to take a moment to share a couple of examples

From our partners I’m going to jump up or start over to the Pacific coast to California move from maybe a local to more of a state-level example so in California there are three state agencies that make up the California coastal management program that includes the California Coastal Commission and they just manage

Development along the outer Coast the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission which oversees development in the bay and the California State coastal Conservancy so they work along the entire length of the California coast and the San Francisco Bay Area their non regulatory and they really focus on purchasing protecting

Restoring and enhancing Coastal Resources over the past several years each of these agencies has been working on towards changing the way they work to be more inclusive and equitable so I’m going to share some of the recent work and then some of the best practices and lessons learned that they shared with me

From their staff so in March of this year the California Coastal Commission unanimously adopted its first environmental justice policy the purpose is to achieve more meaningful engagements equitable processes effective communication and stronger coastal protection benefits that are accessible to everyone this was the result of significant work that started

In 2016 with an assembly bill that gave the Commission authority to specifically consider environmental justice when making their permit decisions however the Commission still needed to provide guidance and clarity for Commission staff and public on how they will do this so I wanted to share a couple of the engagement approaches and other

Approaches that they use to work on this path the first step they took was to form an environmental justice team on their staff and this team did a number of things they participated in a racial equity training through the government Alliance on race and equity the team conducted extensive public outreach

Efforts including interviews with people in communities across the different coastal regions of California and keep in mind California’s shoreline is about 1,100 miles on the outer Coast they focused specifically on reaching environmental justice communities and California Native American tribes to understand their concerns and needs and they took this feedback that they

Solicited and they used it to develop the first draft of the environmental justice policy and to inform the Commission’s own strategy on how to integrate these principles throughout the agency so on this slide ribbon see what their approach is it includes not only the development of the policy

But also a racial equity plan and a five-year strategic plan to provide for ongoing accountability for implementation now the Commission’s policy is organized around a statement of environmental justice principles that inform the Commission’s implementation of the law so you’ll see the topics that are covered by those principles on this

Slide and I just wanted to mention that the next some of the next steps they’ll be looking to hire additional staff to support EJ and EJ policy implementation and develop training for staff and local governments on this and just a couple of lessons learned shared by staff they noticed that their policy development

Process was slow it took about three years to develop and get it adopted and so one of the things they did was make sure to continually communicate in between big actions and steps to make sure folks knew it was still moving forward and to keep them engaged another

Thing I wanted to share is that even though their team they said they made a lot of mistakes they spent a lot of time listening to their stakeholders and trying to learn from those mistakes to do better next time so the San Francisco Bay Conservation Development Commission oversees

Development in the bay they also amended their policies this year to include environmental justice and social equity and in fact this just occurred in October so just about three weeks ago this was a result of also a significant amount of effort and time they started back in 2015 they were they started with

A project looking at their laws and policies related to climate change and impacts and threats from sea level rise and they identified four overarching policy issues that they found inadequate an environmental justice and social equity was one of the four and so moving forward in 2017 their Commission’s voted

To begin the process of amending their San Francisco Bay plan to incorporate social equity and environmental justice into planning and permitting since that time the Commission and its staff they engaged with EJ organizations and others to look at the intersection of environmental justice and social equity with coastal management issues

Specifically public access shoreline protection adaptation and mitigation and some of their engagement strategies that I wanted to share they conducted a couple of larger workshops and in those workshops they co-facilitated at least one of them I believe with an environmental justice coalition they also hosted multiple smaller events

Around the region and they worked closely with the environmental justice review team so this was a team that was composed of representatives from Bay Area equity and social justice associations and their purpose was to provide recommendations for consideration of these policies to support their participation and I highlight this because I think it’s

Important that they’re they’ve got a best practice here that they’re implementing in terms of compensating people for their contribution of their time their expertise and their experience this new policy is going to do a variety of things it’s going to require a meaningful community involvement require that perf disproportionate impacts are identified

And addressed and their permitting and their planning and using design principles in the evaluation of public access projects that are inclusive they’ll also be hiring a staff member whose role it is to support EJ and social equity in DC DC DC DC and looking to develop guidance for applicants and

Permit staff I wanted to share some of the lesson learned as well from them this staff shared that it can take a long time to build trust with communities who have been discriminated against or treated unfairly also that it’s important to resource community members for their time and expertise

People who lived experience facing and fighting environmental and justices should be treated the same as other forms of expertise and also that we need more strategic thinking and problem-solving about how we and all levels of government can move from the model of informing the public about decisions to empowering the public to be

A decision-maker so I thought I would just show those with you and before I move on from this slide I just wanted to note that BC DC runs the adapting to rising tides program this is also known you may have heard the term art program it provides planning guidance tools and

Information to address challenges of climate change and the art approach it includes for sustainable the frames to use in the full adaptation planning process and social society and equity is one of those frames so if you are interested in checking this out it’s a great resource they have all of the

Resources online and they actually have a help desk that anybody can call up and talk to as well and the last agency here I want to talk about was the state coastal Conservancy there as I mentioned non-regulatory primarily granting agencies focused on a number of projects throughout California

And supporting communities one note is that they do have a strategic plan that includes three equity and justice objectives and they’ve also outline numerical targets for those one of them focuses on increasing coastal access for all Californians so they have a great program called conservancies explore the coast grants this program acknowledges

There can be many barriers success accessing the coast including both the cost and difficulty of transportation so that one of the priorities for this program is to fund programs for people who may experience challenges getting to the coast or enjoying the coast and this can include youth and their families

Especially students instead of one schools low-income and disadvantaged communities and persons with disabilities and tribes so they funded I think since 2013 about six million dollars worth and 200 separate separate grants and so this is one of the pictures from from one of those grant programs here’s another picture and I

Just wanted to talk with the Conservancy noting that they’re working on developing justice equity diversity and inclusion guidelines to direct their work their work on top on a variety of topics as they’re developing these guidelines they have been conducting significant stakeholder engagement and again just wanted to share some other

Practices here they are these engagement cyclical engagements are led in part by people in environmental justice work they’ve included a series of target interviews with tribal representatives to obtain more in-depth feedback and they’ve had five focus groups throughout the state that will that are organized and facilitated by ejx advocates and

Finally for them to choose lessons that they shared with me it is critical to work with EJ organizations and community representatives to design programs and projects don’t the process take the time to really listen and understand and share decision-making power with the people you were charged with serving and

Another lesson is to focus on your agency’s internal work your hiring retention promotion and training efforts you need a culturally competent workforce with a goal for diversity across the depth and breadth of your agency if you want to meaningfully work with under-resourced communities and so all those clothes here by come bringing

It back in terms of the office purposeful management we are really thinking about how can we best support the transfer and sharing of lessons learn lessons and strategies across the coast of the entire coast of the country since we’re not always working hand in hand with the community we really need to

Think about leveraging our partners and then networks we have to help so I just spent time sharing about what is going on in California because I I fit in Oakland California and I work directly with these partners but I have about 250 colleagues that are working around the country who are collectively also

Hearing and learning about not just successes but also challenges in trying to implement equitable planning so we feel we’ve got a really great opportunity and a responsibility from our perspective to advance this work and share the good work within our network and beyond and we’ve started doing this

In a variety of ways for example in the California examples I shared we’ve been supporting with CDMA funding a variety of the different things that they’ve been doing I’m in the New Jersey example the Jeannie shared we supported as she mentioned funding there for that project and we’re also supporting a little bit

Of the instructional review for what they’re creating through the project we have instructional designers on our staff and doing that with an eye towards how we might be able to incorporate some of the key information they’re creating to into our trainings for our broader network and I’ll just I’ll just close by

Saying that we are we are newer to this than we know there is so much more we can do and learn so we’re really looking forward to identifying effective ways to further support those our partners and the coastal community efforts around the country thank you okay hey it’s it’s Robin I’m gonna try

To hopefully share my screen here okay yep but it’s up okay um yeah I was a little bit delayed for me so I’ve been working with the New York City Panel on Climate Change for quite a few years now and so what I’m going to share is my

Experience with working with them to sort of build equity and bring equity into the process of planning for adaptation for Communities in New York but it’s a little it’s sort of very much echoes what we’ve heard from the other presenters but I think also it’s sort of like a slightly different angle because

Our role was actually sort of bringing some of the lessons of sort of environmental justice work and sort of how environmental justice approaches the issue of climate change and sort of bringing that back to the city and sort of kind of helping them kind of build a framework and a template for including

Climate change in adaptation planning going forward so just moving all right that’s better yeah so these are just some of the prior reports the New York City Panel on Climate Change the the first one is this slide is the the most recent report and that so is so what I’m

Going to presenting what I’m going to be presented today is actually already available in a chapter that came out a few months ago if anyone’s interested in following up so in terms of the equity research group what New York City asked us to do is was to sort of help them

Think about bringing equity into the adaptation planning process for communities but it what was sort of interesting about the work in some ways was that they had you know they already had very a very strong tradition of including you know attention to socially vulnerable populations and had an

Awareness of that piece and also had a you know had you know some of the kind of basic tenets of equity and terms of involvement community participants some of the things that we’ve already been hearing about doing sort of outreach with communities connecting with communities but I think

Where the pieces sort of weren’t didn’t really fit together and what we really tried to bring in to the work with the group was to actually involve directly sort of the environmental justice groups and the community groups into sort of the whole design of the project itself and and sort of bringing that

Perspective which we were just general we’ve heard about from me I think almost every other presenter this idea of collaborating with environmental justice communities in the development of sort of equitable plans for adaptation and so that sort of that was kind of a tenant and in this particular project we ended

Up partnering with three environmental justice groups in in the City uprose we act and the point and those groups became sort of you know equal partners in terms of what are the questions that we need to be asking how do we need to be approaching this project and what

Kinds of guidance do we want to give the city so it was just sort of sort of a co-production approach through through and through from kind of beginning to end and the gut and there’s just another thing that was sort of you know kind of maybe hasn’t been said before and it’s

Kind of an innovation of the project was that we really tried to think in terms of having like a really clear guiding framework for talking about equity in the context of climate change so we did we defined equity in terms of several elements including distributive equity where you’re thinking in terms of the

Equity it’s sort of an approach to equity that really focuses on identifying which places are disadvantaged you know using vulnerability mapping other types of tools and then targeting resources toward those places that need additional sort of additional resources and this was very much I think in starting the

Project where what we were hearing was sort of the perspective of this of the city and I think for many cities if you ask them what does equity mean and what is what is it what is that you know how do you make things equitable that distributive that distributive

Awareness is really what kind of comes up and I and when I talk about a few minutes and a few minutes about the results from other stays up sort of emphasize that again but then we also want to sort of bringing in kind of newer ways of thinking about equity so

This idea of contextual equity where you’re thinking about some of this ideas that we’ve already heard from other panelists you know in terms of social economical political factors factors that sort of structural racism factors that are sort of creating a context where in inequalities are sort of exacerbate perpetuated exacerbated and

So forth and then also of course thinking in terms of equity in terms of um sort of a very traditional kind of procedural way of you know sort of the idea of having sort of a robust participatory process having sort of those having you know even like the kind

Of idea of recognition equity which we we didn’t have a separate category for recognition equity but we really tried to make our procedural approach have that sort of inclusive inclusive component and so in thinking about the project we were trying to really you know incorporate these different elements of equity into the different

Pieces so we’ve already seen a whole bunch of social vulnerability maps so I’m I guess I’m showing what just one more using the SPI method and we ended up what was you know interesting about this work and I actually think this was maybe brought up already not and one of

The other presentations this idea of using the not only using kind of the Metra see the metrics where you’re kind of using these kind of combined indices to identify places that are socially vulnerable in the area circled on this in this slide are the three are the

Three case study areas but also using maybe single indicators so using the indicator maps that were that that built that were that were you know sort of the indicators that went into the indices the actual in terms of the value for the city and the value for even the value

For some of the communities that we’ve worked with those single indicators were in some ways seen as a little bit more informative so what I mean by single indicators would be like areas where high percentage of you well someone already mentioned poverty so high percentage of poverty or areas

Where a high percentage of the population you know there’s sort of certain you know like a particular variable that emphasizes you know populations that are disabled populations that are sort of medically compromised and so forth getting at sort of variables that are slightly more fine-grained and more specific for you

Know kind of having that value in terms of you you know in forming the distributional equity equity understanding and then what we also did in the project was we did a series of community case studies where we were working directly with these environmental justice groups and then

Looking into really kind of more the contextual equity piece and trying to understand you know conditions that were sort of creating vulnerabilities and also conditions or sort of guidance in terms of how to how to enhance adaptation so I’ll just show a few pictures so our one of our one of our

Communities that we worked at was um Sunset Park and Brooklyn this was the uprose community this is a waterfront I significant I mean it’s a it’s a it’s an interesting neighborhood in terms for many reasons but one of the kind of standout things about it is that it’s an

Active industrial waterfront it’s one of the last sort of active working waterfront in that’s still you know sort of in New York City and so that sort of working waterfront piece also means that it’s you know vulnerable economically vulnerable to flooding and so forth but that also there’s sort of this

Overlapping question of sort of prior environmental just injustice issue prior environmental justice issues prior sort of environmental toxins and pollutions that are already present in the community as a result of sort of such a high concentration of Industry which then sometimes someone else mentioned I think it was Giroux mentioned earlier

The idea of sort of this toxic soup happening after sandy and that was exactly the kind of stories we were hearing from this neighborhood in terms of their experience of prior flooding and I just I’ll just jump through the other things I know that time is tight

Just Hunts Point Brook Hunts Point Bronx was another community that we were focusing on the one of the standout points from this area is that it’s the home of the food distribution center which serves the entire you know the entire sort of island of men hi island of Manhattan and

Really the entire city and sort of broader region this was very very nearly flooded by Hurricane sandy it was just about one foot from actually reaching and actually overtopping and flooding the food distribution center so that was sort of almost like one of those where sandy could have been much much worse

For the New York Region um it wasn’t but just in terms of preparedness and sort of resilience in this region one of the things that we’re hearing a lot about was that because this this area is so significant in terms of its role as that sort of industrial site and a food

Distribution center it’s also very highly sort of traveled by trucks and so the kind of the one of the environmental justice issues here was very much around air quality and around sort of diesel pollution and then overlapping with you know sort of you know high heat event

Day so we so it wasn’t although flooding was sort of a lot of the story there was also a very strong narrative around heat and a concern for extreme heat here and also in in the case in northern and we were also hearing quite a bit about you

Know flooding was there was flooding risks along the along the kind of coastline there along the river but also significant sort of air pollution concerns in Ezzor in other community northern Manhattan so just so that was just very quickly in terms of the context for these places and just some

Of the insights from the case studies um one of the things that we you know we sort of which is as I think already mentioned this idea of gentrification but this real concern that climate stresses are only one of the big factors and one of the big pressures and

Stresses that are these neighborhoods are facing they’re already facing a lot of environmental justice issues that haven’t been resolved so facility siting air pollution runoff we talked about csos in Newark and CSOs are also present here combined sewer overflow issues and so I think like bringing climate

An awareness of climate change and the need to talk about climate change but sort of from the community’s perspective really placing climate change into a context of a whole suite of stresses and pressures that they’re facing and then this idea of procedural actually is sort of moving moving beyond just you know

Sort of kind of that kind of you know maybe more simple public meeting approach to procedural equity but really having an approach that includes communities in all phases of adaptation planning and I think this is something that many the other talks have already mentioned but this was definitely a very

Strong outcome probably almost one of the strongest outcomes of our of the community case studies was this need and desire to be involved in in planning from from start to finish and then so just briefly I’ll just say that we also in this study took a look across cities

And we’re trying to understand how are other cities incorporating equity into their adaptation planning and what are you know what are they doing and I don’t have time to go into that piece in terms of much detail but just to mention sort of that the idea that this

Distributional equity is what cities are kind of most familiar with and most used to doing that was definitely echoed in all of the other cities that we that we heard that they had very elaborate plans and elaborate sort of approaches to making sure that they were identifying vulnerable populations that they were

Developing programs that sort of targeted vulnerable areas but maybe you know the emphasis was you know not quite as sort of maybe I don’t know complex and as sort of rich in terms of how to do procedural equity and how to do contextual equity most of them are doing

Procedural equity along the lines of very traditional models not so unless so using more collaborative co-production type of approaches contextual equity was mostly recognized in terms of needing to have employment practices that were equitable within city agencies but and there was certainly an acknowledgement of bigger sort of contextual issue

Structural racism and so forth I think less much less so in terms of really explicit ways to sort of bring you know bringing a sort of real you know approach to addressing contextual equity I think that’s sort of some of those are sort of the challenges that

Are yet to be developed so just in terms of just a quick conclusion I think you know in this I think fits with all this talks we’ve already heard the idea that climate change it really is an equity issue and that to do climate change well to address climate change in a

Sustainable way that we will have to really bring equity into the conversation so just before I close I just want to acknowledge if I can I can get to those next sides well I do have two more sites out there they are just to acknowledge my coke my all my co

Collaborators in the working group all right well thank you thank you so much to all of our speakers this morning this has been incredibly informative and I appreciate everyone’s attendance in words for the International division and World Town Planning day I know there’s a number of questions I think in the

Interest of time we’ll close the session for now but you will receive an email with some contact information if you want to direct your questions to specific panelists so thanks again for joining and hope everyone has a terrific day

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