Giving Compass' Take:
- Shareable, alongside Tufts University and professor Julian Agyeman, discuss how poor city planning, income inequality, and crumbling infrastructure lead to severe flooding and poor water quality.
- How does climate change exacerbate the problem?
- Read more about flooding infrastructure.
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The impact of hazard exposures such as stormwater runoff is rarely evenly felt across a community. Neighborhoods of color, particularly of low-wealth, will often face worse stormwater problems especially in the era of climate change with more frequent and intense stormwater runoff.
In this lecture, Dr. Marccus Hendricks discusses the equity and environmental justice issues related to stormwater infrastructure planning that result in vulnerable systems leading to everyday challenges in stormwater and more extreme urban flooding. Specifically, he will examine conceptual frameworks and contextualize what it means for physical systems to operate in a social world.
Read the full article about urban flooding infrastructure at Shareable.