• Elevates environmental justice as a priority across all federal agencies. As part of this, the administration expects relevant climate investments to deliver 40% of overall benefits to disadvantaged communities. It has also established the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council ...
Some environmental justice scholarship, however, contends that city planning responses to climate change present opportunities—if successfully harnessed—to combat social, racial, and economic inequality16. Such efforts would not only address historical and ongoing legacies of systematic inequality but ...
Drought is an kind of extreme water deficit processes, which can be used as indicators of ecosystem deteriorate and climate change. Drought can be classified to four categories of Meteorological Drought, Hydrological Drought, Agricultural Drought and Socioeconomic Drought [...
impressionable — not to mention scientifically and economically illiterate — they don’t question the pseudo-science that underlies “climate change” or the consider the economic consequences of drastic anti-warming measures, which would yield (at best) a lowering of Earth’s average temperature b...
engineering, mathematics and the arts, in service of fosteringclimateresilience in the next generation—a crucial tool in the fight against risingclimate doomism. To achieve this, Henriquez has created an innovative program:Gaming for Justice: A Virtual Gaming Experience Through Oakland's Time and ...
because the contamination is outside the area being investigated.20 Populations also move away from the impacted areas to escape the disaster or for economic reasons.21 As these displaced populations can be difficult to track, monitoring health exposures and outcomes after an extreme event might not...
From this perspective, the paper offers an overview of the instruments adopted by the EU institutions to screen and prevent creeping economic operations managed by foreign actors. Lastly, the paper emphasizes the linkage between investment planning and more general territorial planning issues, proposing ...
Data from Earth observation (EO) satellites are increasingly used to monitor the environment, understand variability and change, inform evaluations of climate model forecasts, and manage natural resources. Policymakers are progressively relying on the in
But Italy has undergone numerous changes since that time. For example, evolution of the generation mix towards natural gas and renewables has impacted emissions from power plants while a prolonged economic downturn has reduced pollution from industry. On top of this, climate change has modified the...
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