Theme 3 – Equity
Research goal:
The SETx UIFL incorporates Equity (fairness and justice) as a central theme to inform locally-driven assessment of current and future climate-induced risks and proposed adaptation strategies. The Equity team has three overarching research goals:
- Assess the distribution of climate, flooding, and air pollution risks
- Co-develop locally informed equity metrics specific to community dynamics
- Assess the impact of locally informed equity metrics on informing local co-designed adaptation decision making
The team uses qualitative methods (interviews, focus groups, workshops), hazard exposure, physical, and social vulnerability and risk mapping methods.
Tasks:
- Apply integrated environmental, health and social vulnerability data for equity metrics
- Gather, clean and organize secondary demographic and economic data to generate housing unit-level social vulnerability indices
- Incorporate health and environmental data to assess hot spots and Toxic Mobility Vulnerability Index into social vulnerability indicators
- Engage stakeholders to validate and modify social vulnerability indicators in the area
- Integrate available existing primary data on disaster experiences
- Interview community stakeholders to understand place-based social vulnerability indicators
- Engage residents to understand lived experience with environmental concerns
- Develop and test visualization metrics for social vulnerability indicators