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Featured Project
Climate Safe Neighborhoods
Partnership
What happens when climate justice planning is led by individual neighborhoods? How do effects ripple outwards to the broader community and city?
Like many U.S. cities, Cincinnati’s neighborhoods reflect enduring legacies of structural racism and environmental inequity.
Historical patterns of redlining, uneven resource allocation, and more recent racially discriminatory housing and credit policies have produced persistent disparities in housing quality, access to green space, and exposure to urban heat island
___ Cincinnati, OH
U.S.A.
Donut charts on participant demographic data?
MAJOR QUESTIONS
What factors motivated participants to engage in the Climate Safe Neighborhoods (CSN) Partnership?
What values and goals shaped participants’ CSN engagement?
What did participants view as the main benefits and challenges of the CSN process?
What recommendations emerged for strengthening neighborhood-level participatory climate planning in the future?
What were the impacts of CSN on community members, project team members, and the wider community?
Major Findings
Our impact paper is now available!
Our process manuscript is currently under review! Check back later, or feel free to peruse our other published work.
Research Team Members
Dr. Carlie D. Trott
Emma M. Shepherd-Reyes
Cara Dreher
Dr. Stephanie Lam
Abigail Lusnak
Why this work matters
This project demonstrates how climate resilience planning can move beyond top-down, technocratic approaches by centering local knowledge, community priorities, and the leadership of residents most affected by climate injustice.
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