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How Can Federal Agencies Advance Racial Equity?
Today we released our report about how federal agencies like FEMA could advance racial equity. Partnering closely with communities and closing data gaps are important recommendations.
The Texas Power Grid Failure Is a Climate Change Cautionary Tale
The winter storm that ravaged Texas this month did not come as a surprise to scientists. “The future is not going to be like the past,” CRGC director Melissa Finucane, who also serves as a co-director of the RAND Climate Resilience Center, told TIME Magazine. “If we could just plan a little better, we could anticipate some of these problems.”
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Today we released our report about how federal agencies like FEMA could advance racial equity. Partnering closely with communities and closing data gaps are important recommendations. www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1083-1.html
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Disasters have the potential to exacerbate preexisting racial inequities. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency have made commitments to reduce social inequities, but frameworks, indicators and metrics are needed for tracking progress toward equity goals.
Celebrating Juneteenth with a reminder in this commentary co-authored with Drs. Jaime Madrigano and Jhacova Williams that we need new strategies for fixing old problems. insidesources.com/promoting-social-equity-in-infrastructure-planning-and-delivery/
Promoting Social Equity in Infrastructure Planning and Delivery – InsideSources
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The American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan propose to address racial inequities through significant infrastructure, workforce, education, and
Here's our summary of human health and socioeconomic effects in the Oceanography special issue. www.tos.org/oceanography/assets/docs/34-1_sandifer.pdf
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Check out this new special issue of Oceanography, which summarizes 10 years of GoMRI research, including research by the CRGC team. www.tos.org/oceanography/issue/volume-34-issue-01
Volume 34 Issue 01 | Oceanography
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FROM THE GUEST EDITORS • About the Special Issue Colwell, R., J. Shepherd, M. Feldman, C. Wilson, R. Shaw, and M. Leinen. 2021. About the Special Issue. Oceanography 34(1):15, doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2021.113.
The most recent of CRGC-supported papers to be published is by Maggie Weden, Vanessa Parks, Andy Parker, Leah Drakeford, and Rajeev Ramchand on "Health Disparities in the US Gulf Coast: The Interplay of Environmental Disaster, Material Loss, and Residential Segregation." They find that the experience of property damage after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill widens health disparities associated with residential income segregation.![]()
www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/env.2020.0049
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Health, Social, and Community Economic Impacts of the Oil Spill
We are surveying individuals in Gulf of Mexico communities to assess the health, social, and economic impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on households. Read More »
Economic Impact of the Oil Spill on Industry
We are assessing the economic impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the fishing, fish/seafood processing, and tourism industries. Read More »
Community Action Planning
We are developing and implementing a community action planning process to increase awareness and use of evidence-based resilience strategies. Read More »
Targeted Information for Disaster-Affected Communities
We are developing a web portal, tailored to the needs of communities in the Gulf region, to deliver targeted information about oil spills. Read More »
Mentor the Next Generation
We are training undergraduate and graduate students in disaster resilience research and outreach methods. Read More »
Real-Time Program Self-Evaluation
We are evaluating the Consortium’s performance as we do our work, to demonstrate success and to improve our research, outreach, and education activities. Read More »