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EPA’s Environmental Justice Research Roadmap and Interagency Efforts on Climate Justice
Citation:
Geller, A. EPA’s Environmental Justice Research Roadmap and Interagency Efforts on Climate Justice. CSTE Environmental Health, Occupational Health, and Injury Steering Committee Webinar, NA, August 16, 2016.
Impact/Purpose:
Objectives: 1) Introduce participants to the work of the EJ IWG. 2) Briefly describe EPA research efforts to address environmental justice. 3) Provide examples of ongoing research to characterize and identify communities vulnerable to stressors associated with climate change.
Description:
Stressors associated with climate change are expected to be disproportionately greater for overburdened communities. This webinar will present activities of the Climate Impacts subcommittee of the Federal Interagency Working Group (IWG) on Stressors associated with climate change are expected to be disproportionately greater for overburdened communities. This webinar will present activities of the Climate Impacts subcommittee of the Federal Interagency Working Group (IWG) on Environmental Justice (EJ). It will also describe research on climate change and environmental justice included in EPA’s EJ Research Roadmap. This includes initial spatial analysis of contaminated sites threatened by climate stressors such as extreme weather and flooding and the development of indices to characterize community-scale vulnerability and resilience factors and cumulative risk of health disparities resulting from environmental stressors associated with climate change.