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Centering Equity in the Nation's Weather, Water, and Climate Services
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2023
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Source: Environmental Justice (2023)
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Journal Title:Environmental Justice
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Description:Water, weather, and climate affect everyone. However, their impacts on various communities can be very different based on who has access to essential services and environmental knowledge. Structural discrim-ination, including racism and other forms of privileging and exclusion, affects people’s lives and health,with ripples across all sectors of society. In the United States, the need to equitably provide weather, water,and climate services is uplifted by the Justice40 Initiative (Executive Order 14008), which mandates 40% ofthe benefits of certain federal climate and clean energy investments flow to disadvantaged communities. Toeffectively provide such services while centering equity, systemic reform is required. Reform is imperative given increasing weather-related disasters, public health impacts of climate change, and disparities in infrastructure, vulnerabilities, and outcomes. It is imperative that those with positional authority and re-sources manifest responsibility through (1) recognition, inclusion, and prioritization of community exper- Dr. Aradhna Tripati is Professor at Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Center for Diverse Leadership in Science, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space
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Source:Environmental Justice (2023)
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ISSN:1939-4071;1937-5174;
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Rights Information:CC BY
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