Posted on 01/10/2023 8:02:14 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A new pilot project to find ways to inject equity considerations into transportation planning in southeast Michigan will focus on how urban flooding affects historically disadvantaged communities.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and partner agencies are launching this research project to better create infrastructure that is more resilient to flooding impacts from climate change. The study’s focus will be to better understand how transportation disruptions during major urban flooding events affect areas already struggling with poverty challenges.
NOAA will contribute $150,000 to the study, which includes partner groups the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG), Fernleaf Interactive, and the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research.
The goal is to develop ways to make decisions about transportation projects that advance equity and climate resilience in the seven-county southeast Michigan region.
The partnership also will analyze data to examine how equity and climate resilience are factored into decision making about project approval and prioritization.
Results of the study are expected to be shared with federal aid agencies, as well as influence regional transportation planning, and a flooding mitigation study.
Officials said this work will advance conversations between NOAA and the U.S. Department of Transportation about how to include equity-centered climate resilience into transportation planning.
“This collaborative effort demonstrates how NOAA puts equity into action by working with communities from start to finish to provide meaningful insight and information about their local climate risks,” said Rick Spinrad, NOAA administrator.
“Ensuring that vulnerable and historically disadvantaged communities can be more intentionally considered when transportation decisions are made is an important step toward resilience,” Spinrad said in a written statement.
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Go away, d$^# it! We do not want you here.
WTF does this even mean?
They want to steal farms. There is NO urban here except for the two county seats.
There are wetlands all over this area, it used to be a swamp. Farmers have spent millions draining said swamp.
I have NO idea what that has to do with equity or transportation.
Pregnant and nursing men of color most affected.
Insanity. = Spend more money in the name of “climate equity.”
Consultancy jobs, government contracts, phoney-baloney jobs.
Don't know if gif is gonna work.
I grow weary of the the term “equity.”
We were dirt poor, no indoor plumbing, no phone, no electricity.
The nearest utility pole was miles away.
The beavers would dam up a culvert and flood the road to town just below us.
So in the '50s we suffered from "climate flooding equity" until the Fish and Game came and trapped the beavers.
In a short time either the beavers returned or new ones came.
But guess what?
The rich bankers from New Jersey who owned a camp up the road were just as stuck as we were.
Grants, and grant grabbing "scientists" had yet to be invented, so we had nobody to come study the beavers and the flooding of poor folks. Or rich folks.
It was just "life".
It means taking land from people who know how to use it and improve it, and giving that land to grifters and ne'er-do-wells.
“...how urban flooding affects historically disadvantaged communities.”
It sounds like an idyllic childhood.
Klimate krap is nothing more than redistribution of wealth. In this case it sounds like r-a-a-a-a-c-i-s-t redistribution of monies.
"Unique" today, in that era, normal in rural areas.
42 below zero in my bedroom until when I was 6 we moved to a better house where it only go to 20 below zero on my bedroom.
One room school. In the winter we often wore our coats an mittens until it warmed up some by 10 AM or noon.
Seven kids the smallest year, 18 the biggest.
All 8 grades, except when there were 7 kids.
No running water in the school.
It doesn’t sound like you grew up in Texas or Florida.
In the former conservative state of Vermont.
Now the communist Peoples' Republic of Vermont.
1964 was the turning point when the few native leftists combined with the hippies outnumbered the real Vermonters.
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