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Development of community-level resilience capacity to natural hazards for environmental and social justice challenged communities: Conceptualization
Citation:
Summers, Kevin AND A. Lamper. Development of community-level resilience capacity to natural hazards for environmental and social justice challenged communities: Conceptualization. 19th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability, Gulf Breeze, FL, February 01 - 03, 2023.
Impact/Purpose:
Presentation will expose international community to methods used by EPA to develop resilience capacity and attendance will permit Dr. Summers to learn other international approaches used for resilience capacity building in small communities.
Description:
Through the use of existing models and tools, the parish-level resilience to natural hazards was determined for central Louisiana (US) parishes subject to flooding, hurricanes, and other potential natural climatic events. Through consultation with state officials and local community groups, candidate environmental justice (EJ) and social justice (SJ) communities were selected to develop resilience capacity enhancement plans to address potential adverse parish and community outcomes of natural hazard events. Through community engagement workshops strategies for resilience capacity enhancement were determined and plans for their implementation were determined. Continuing studies will monitor the success of their strategy implementations and will assess the transferability of the approach to other candidate communities.
