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This new publication presents highlights of a June 2023 workshop that focused on a new geospatial tool developed by the White House Council on Environmental Quality to identify communities experiencing climate and economic burdens. The tool, called the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, will be used to guide federal investments to further the White House's Justice40 Initiative. The workshop explored how well data in the tool represents the lived experiences of historically marginalized and overburdened communities in the United States.
Participants included researchers, policy makers and community members from a wide range of regional, cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Topics discussed included potential data gaps, the impact of climate and economic burdens, regional differences in data, historical factors that affect community health and wellbeing, and other inputs to the tool that might help it accurately identify disadvantaged communities.This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop.
9 pages
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8.5 x 11
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-70671-8
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/27158
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Representing Lived Experience in the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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