social cohesion: the secret weapon in the fight for equitable climate resilience
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Social CohesionThe Secret Weapon in the Fight
for Equitable Climate Resilience
By Danielle Baussan May 2015
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Social CohesionThe Secret Weapon in the Fight
for Equitable Climate Resilience
By Danielle Baussan May 2015
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1 Introduction and summary
4 The vulnerability of low-income communities
8 Integrating community resilience into climate resilience
21 Recommendations to foster climate and social resilience
23 Conclusion
25 Endnotes
Contents
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Introduction and summary
In July 1995, Chicago experienced he deadlies weaher even in he ciy’s hisory:
a susained hea wave ha included a hea indexa measure o he hea experi-
enced by a ypical individualo 120 degrees Fahrenhei.1 Te exreme weaher o
ha summer 20 years ago led o a leas 465 hea-relaed deahs over a roughly wo-
week period.2 While all Chicagoans el he hea, hey did no suffer equally. Te
pars o he Windy Ciy wih higher concenraions o low-income people, elderly
people, and Arican Americans experienced some o he highes hea-relaed deah
raes.3 Pinpoining he locaions o hese deahs revealed a map o climae vulner-abiliy ha spoke o sark racial divisions and inequaliy wihin Chicago.
Weaher is ofen reerred o as “he grea equalizer,” bu as Chicago’s experience
shows, exreme weaher such as flooding, sorms, unusually cold spells, and hea
waves disproporionaely affec low-income communiies. Tere are several
explanaions or his dispariy. Low-income housingwhich is ypically older and
o poor qualiyends o provide less proecion rom exreme weaher.4 Afer
desrucive weaher evens, people in low-income communiies are no able o
recover as quickly or compleely as individuals who live in more financially secure
communiies.5 Moreover, people who choose o leave or are orced o move rom
a climae-affeced area become “climae displaced,” which resuls in disrupions o
heir lives and a poenial burden o hos communiies.
Since he Chicago hea wave o 1995, he world’s changing climae has conrib-
ued o an increase in he srengh and requency o exreme weaher evens, wih
he resuling allou more likely o be acuely el by low-income households. 6 In
order o curb climae change, a number o ciies are esing sraegies o cu carbon
polluion, such as expanding public ransporaion, improving energy efficiency,
and increasing access o renewable energy. Tese sraegies also have he added benefi o improving public healh, paricularly in low-income areas where raes o
ashma and oher environmen-relaed illness are high.7 Climae change adapaion
effors ha are currenly underway o figh coasal flooding,8 reduce excessive hea
in urban areas, and limi drough effecs9such as planing rees, resoring naural
areas, and improving waer-use efficiencycan help residens o all income levels.
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In addiion o hese measures, promoing social cohesionin which a sociey’s
members cooperae o achieve shared well-beingin communiies is an addi-
ional and overlooked ool or srenghening climae resilience, wih paricularly
good oucomes in low-income communiies. Jus as he Chicago hea wave dis-
played he vulnerabiliy o low-income communiies during exreme hea evens,
i also spolighed he resilience o socially cohesive communiies in he ace oexreme weaher. esearchers ound ha 3 o he 10 Chicago neighborhoods
wih he lowes raes o hea-relaed deahs were low-income, Arican American
communiies.10 Te reason ha communiies wih similar demographics ared
so differenly was high levels o communiy ineracion and organizaion ha
decreased isolaion among residens. Pu differenly, socially cohesive commu-
niies in which people are engaged in social or civic evens enjoyed increased
resilience agains exreme weaher evens.
While here is no singularly acceped definiion o social cohesion, he concep
has been used by social scieniss and inernaional governmen organizaions. TeOrganisaion or Economic Co-operaion and Developmen uses his definiion:
A cohesive society works towards the well-being of all its members, fights exclu-
sion and marginalisation, creates a sense of belonging, promotes trust, and offers
its members the opportunity of upward social mobility.11
Sociologis Dick Sanley, who direced research and analysis a he Deparmen
o Canadian Heriage or he Canadian governmen, elaboraes ha social
cohesion includes sociey’s willingness and capaciy o cooperae. He also
noed, “Social cohesion should no be conused wih social order [or] common
values.”12 Social cohesion is no mean o sraiy communiies bu o increase
cooperaion. Addiionally, socieies may lack social cohesion because hey do
no have he communicaion, unding, or organizaional ools needed o oser
cooperaive neworks in a communiy.
Tese definiions can provide imporan policy conex or effors o develop commu-
niy resilience agains he exreme weaher effecs o climae change. Social cohesion
can help serve as a resilience ool beore, during, and afer an exreme weaher even:
• Before an extreme weather event: Mapping low-income, climae-vulnerable
communiies can arge weaherizaion, energy-efficiency measures, and oher
resources o preven he wors impacs o exreme weaher. Ideniying hese
communiies can also assis governmen effors o oser social cohesiveness
wihin hose areas in order o improve climae resilience during and afer
exreme weaher.
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• During an extreme weather event: esidens and organizaions in more con-
neced communiies can assis wih supplies and help preven displacemen
while ideniying local needs or governmen officials.
• After an extreme weather event: Cohesive communiies may have a shorer
duraion o climae displacemen. Cohesive communiies paricipaing in volunary coasal buyback programs may receive greaer compensaion han
individual residens.
For hese benefis o be realized, however, governmen policies mus oser com-
muniy cohesion and incorporae communiy inpu in climae resilience and
miigaion plans. O course, social cohesion and oher resilience sraegies benefi
all communiies, no jus low-income areas. However, since low-income neighbor-
hoods are he mos vulnerable o climae change effecs, hese sraegies are par-
icularly beneficial in hose communiies. Moreover, social cohesion is a vial ool
or low-income communiies because hey ypically experience unique housing,economic, and healh disadvanages even beore exreme weaher srikes.
Incorporaing social cohesion ino climae resilience planning is a difficul ask
ha requires improving he level o ineracion and rus beween low-income
communiies and climae resilience planners. I is crucial ha resilience plans no
only ocus on physical inrasrucure, bu also consider he human elemen and
he long-erm healh o vulnerable communiies. Despie he complexiy o he
ask, building social cohesion is a worhy goal.
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The vulnerability of
low-income communities
Beore examining how social cohesion can improve resilience in low-income
communiies, i is worh examining how low-income communiies are affeced
by climae change.
Housing vulnerability
Housing vulnerabiliy is more exreme in low-income communiies, whereresidens are more likely o live in neighborhoods wih poor-qualiy housing and
inrasrucure.13 Low-income households are also more likely o be affeced by
exreme weaher: Te majoriy o counies ha experienced muliple exreme
weaher evens over he pas ew years were home o a majoriy o middle- and
lower-income households.14 Tis double whammy o increased exposure o
exreme weaher and inadequae proecions agains flooding and hazardous
emperaures requires unique atenion in climae resilience planning. Developing
exhausive resilience plans is especially imporan considering ha daa indicae
exreme weaher evens will coninue o increase going orward. Specifically, in he
firs hal o his decade alone, he Unied Saes experienced 347 exreme weaher
evensalmos as many exreme weaher evens as he enire decade o he 1970s
and more han he 1960s and 1980s combined.15
Housing vulnerabiliy is a op concern or governmen officials. Shorly afer
Supersorm Sandy hi New York Ciy, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) correcly
prediced, “Tis is going o be a massive housing problem.”16 Te governor’s words
rang especially rue or he ciy ’s low-income residens. More han one-hird o he
individuals in he sorm’s surge area lived in some orm o governmen-assised
housing and roughly hal o he ciy’s 40,000 public housing residens were dis-placed.17 Tose who could no afford or find habiable emporary sheler aced he
challenge o living wihou elecriciy and ho waer or weeksi hey were able
o say in heir homes a all.
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When low-income housing is los o exreme weaher, i can ake years or afford-
able housing o reurn. In 2008, Hurricane Ike desroyed nearly 70 percen o he
srucures on Galveson Island, exas, including more han 500 low-income hous-
ing unis.18 Nearly five years laer, only 40 public housing unis had been rebuil.19
In 2014, he ciy held a groundbreaking ceremony o rebuild he 569-uni build-
ing.20
Te projec is scheduled o be compleed in 2016, eigh years afer he hur-ricane.21 Afer so many years, i is unclear wheher low-income residens, displaced
by Ike and a subsequen lack o affordable housing, will reurn.22
Low-income housing was also slow o reurn o New Orleans afer Hurricane
Karina. Beore he sorm devasaed New Orleans in 2005, he ciy had 5,146
households living in public housing.23 Eigh years laer in 2013, he ciy had less
han hal ha number o public housing unis.24
Even when low-income housing is rebuil, communiies ha exised prior o he
weaher even, once uprooed, may never reurn. For example, o he 3,077 am-ilies living in New Orleans’ our larges public housing developmens prior o
Karina, only 11 percen reurned o he rebuil complexes.25 Many low-income
residens moved o oher areas, noably o Houson, exas, which received an
esimaed 250,000 displaced residens.26 Making low-income housing more
climae resilien can help low-income communiies preven mass displacemen
and is associaed difficulies.
Low-income housing is more vulnerable o exreme weaher, is locaed in areas
ha are more likely o experience exreme weaher, and is slow o be rebuil.
Wihou srenghening he resilience o low-income housing along wih he asso-
ciaed communiies, resilience planners ignore prevenable damage and ragedy.
Economic vulnerability
Low-income communiies endure a disproporionae burden o energy coss,
which is only exacerbaed by exreme weaher. Muliamily renal housing unis,
which house almos hal o very-low-income reners,27 conain one-hird o he
energy-efficiency eaures ha oher ypes o housing ypically have.28
In fiscal year 2014, low-income households spen an esimaed mean o 16.3 percen o
heir household income on energy coss, compared wih 3.5 percen or wealhier
households.29 Wihou increasing ederal assisance or low-income amilies o
efficienly hea and cool heir homes and expanding and beter argeing weaher-
izaion programs o proec amilies rom exreme weaher, households wih he
leas money will coninue o pay he mos or heaing and cooling.
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Exreme weaher evens, such as severe sorms and hurricanes, can jeopardize he
economic healh o low-income workers and hose on public assisance. During
hese evens, businesses close and ransporaion is sopped or limied, which can
cause hourly workers o lose income and risk losing heir jobs. Addiionally, exreme
weaher can pu people in he posiion o having o rely on emergency ood assis-
ance in he orm o Elecronic Benefi ransers, or EBs.30
However, i an elecricouage persiss, which is common in he afermah o exreme weaher evens, hese
needed benefis can be difficul o access.31 Furhermore, cenralized vendors issue
EBs, so a power loss experienced by one vendor can affec people hroughou he
enire counry. For example, when an EB vendor’s compuer server los power in
2013, i affeced people in 17 saes.32 Likewise, wihou reliable elecriciy, social
services are ofen suspended, leaving people wihou access o ood or unable o cash
Social Securiy checks.33 Consequenly, residens in low-income communiies can
lose much more han power and bus connecions during exreme weaherhey
can lose heir jobs, miss criical paymens, and be unable o pu ood on he able.
In addiion o sorms and floods, exreme drough also exacerbaes economic di-
ficulies or low-income communiies in he orm o job losses, ood scarciy, and
ood affordabiliy. Caliornia’s hree years o drough have cos he sae’s agriculural
indusry $2.2 billion and resuled in 17,100 ull- and par-ime job losses in 2014
alone.34 Mos o hese jobs are seasonal or par-ime work, he ype o employmen
ha can suppor low-income households.35 Exreme weaher in agriculural areas
also affecs affordable ood opions or low-income communiies. While he curren
Caliornia drough has no been linked o significan ood price increases,36 droughs
in oher areas o he Unied Saes have made i harder or low-income communiies
o afford paricular ood iems. For insance, bee prices rose 12.1 percen in 2014
due o he effecs o a muliyear drough in exas and Oklahoma ha orced catle
producers o reduce he size o herds.37 Exreme weaher’s oll on wages, prices, and
saey ne programs places burdens on low-income communiies ha should be
accouned or in climae resilience and emergency planning.
Health vulnerability
Beore an exreme weaher even occurs, he climae change acors ha presage suchevens already adversely affec low-income communiies. A Yale Universiy sudy
ound ha fine pariculae materor he condensaion o polluans rom indus-
ry, raffic, and oher man-made sources known as PM 2.5was more prevalen in
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communiies o color. Ta same sudy also ound ha people wih low educaional
atainmen who ace high povery and unemploymen are a greaer healh risks.38
PM 2.5 has been ound o diminish lung uncion, cause greaer use o ashma medi-
caions, and cause hear problems, even wih shor periods o exposure.39
During summer hea waves, urban low-income areas can suffer rom surace hea,known as he “urban hea island” effec, ha resuls when asphal reains empera-
ures ha are up o 50 degrees o 90 degrees Fahrenhei higher han he surround-
ing air emperaure.40 A leas one sudy has ound ha a higher level o surace
hea relaes o a higher risk o deah rom hea-relaed illnesses in low-income and
high-povery neighborhoods.41
Exreme weaher evens ha affec elecriciy availabiliy can also damage he healh
o low-income communiy members by making i difficul or people o operae air
condiioners or home medical devices. Addiionally, many low-income amilies may
no be able o afford he purchase or energy coss o air-condiioning unis.
As climae change increases he number and severiy o exreme weaher evens,
low-income communiies will ace even greaer hardships. Undersanding hese
disinc housing, economic, and healh vulnerabiliies enables policymakers o
boh beter address hisoric inequiies beore disaser srikes and srenghen social
cohesion and implemen oher effecive climae resilience sraegies.
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Integrating community resilience
into climate resilience
Wihou acion, no sae or localiy will be proeced rom he human and fiscal
impacs o drough, floods, and oher exreme weaher evens ha are exacerbaed
by climae change. According o he Whie House Office o Managemen and
Budge, exreme weaher and wildfires alone have cos axpayers $300 billion dur-
ing he pas decade.42 A changing climae and he associaed increase in exreme
weaher evens will only drive up ha cos. Effors o make buildings and inra-
srucure more resilien o exreme weaher can avoid he penny-wise, pound-
oolish approach o 2010 o 2013, a ime when U.S. axpayers spen nearly $6 ordisaser recovery or every $1 spen o increase general communiy resilience.43
Officials are now realizing ha miigaion measures are no enough o preven he
wors impacs o climae change44 and ha communiies also need o adap o he
exreme weaher impacs ha are already occurring.45
Tus, naional and local adapaion plans are being developed o adjus o a new
or changing environmen.46 Tese effors also include resilience planning. Te
Naional esearch Council has defined resilience as “a capabiliy o anicipae,
prepare or, respond o, and recover rom significan muli-hazard hreas wih
minimum damage o social well-being, he economy, and he environmen.”47
Elaboraing on his definiion in he conex o low-income communiies, he
Pahways o esilience Parnership says ha is “vision o climae resilience is no
abou ‘bouncing back.’ Insead, i is abou bouncing orward o eradicae he ineq-
uiies and unsusainable resource use a he hear o climae crisis.”48 ransorming
decades o underunded iniiaives and inrasrucure in low-income areas would
help increase climae resiliency. Invesing in he people wihin hese areas rein-
orces resiliency and improves fiscal and human healh.
Adapaion measures ofen ocus on improving he effecs o climae changeon so-called hard inrasrucuresuch as roads, buildings, or oher permanen
insallaions49o he derimen o sof inrasrucure, which includes insiuions
ha are crucial o mainaining he healh, culural, and social sandards o a com-
muniy.50 Socially cohesive communiies are a key elemen o sof inrasrucure.
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I plans or resilien communiies exclude effors o oser social neworks, hey
overlook he imporance o social cohesion o help proec he mos vulnerable
communiies rom climae displacemen, healh complicaions, and oher impacs
o climae change.
Before an extreme weather event
Identifying vulnerable communities
In order o alleviae he impacs o climae disasers wihin low-income communi-
ies, a cohesive communiy mus exis beore disaser srikes. And in order o os-
er ha cohesive communiy, i is necessary o know where he climae-vulnerable,
low-income communiies are locaed.
Social scieniss, policymakers, and he ederal governmen offer research and daa
o help ideniy such communiies. Geographer Susan Cuter developed he idea
o a couny-specific “social vulnerabiliy index” ha examines he indicaors or
wha she called “disaser risks.”51 Tese risk indicaors include:
• Personal wealh• Age• Densiy o he buil environmen• Single-secor economic dependence• Housing sock and enancy • ace
However, his lis o indicaors only reflecs social vulnerabiliy. Te Naional
Associaion or he Advancemen o Colored People, or NAACP, has developed a
more exensive lis o indicaors or climae-vulnerable, low-income communiies,
noing ha effecive and equiable resilience plans mus be ailored o each com-
muniy’s unique, pre-exising vulnerabiliies.52 Tese indicaors include vulnerabili-
ies ha exis beore a climae even, such as income, lieracy, housing securiy, and
mobiliy. Tey also include “oucome indicaors” ha will deermine he successo climae-adapaion planning, such as inrasrucure, economic developmen,
and educaion. By including prediced and known climae vulnerabiliy in hese
risk acors, resilience plans can develop a more complee and equiable vision o
where exreme weaher will hi and how low-income communiies may be affeced.
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Ideniying and osering communiy cohesiveness in climae-vulnerable, low-
income communiies areas can help reduce he impacs o exreme weaher and
improve climae resilience plans.
Forunaely, governmen resources exis ha can help creae a map o socio-
climae vulnerabiliy. Unorunaely, he resources span agencies, and here islitle evidence ha hey have been used collaboraively. For example, he U.S.
Deparmen o Healh and Human Services has developed a Social Vulnerabiliy
Index o help ideniy and map communiies ha are “may need suppor in prepar-
ing or hazards, or recovering rom disaser,” defined as anyhing rom a ornado
o he leak o a hazardous maerial.53 Tis analysis includes socioeconomic saus.
However, his inormaion does no include projeced changes o climae or sea-
level rise, which can be accessed hrough he Naional Ocean and Amospheric
Adminisraion, or NOAA, 54 or he Federal Emergency Managemen Agency’s, or
FEMA’s, Flood Map Service Cener.55
Te Ceners or Disease Conrol and Prevenion developed a limied bu promis-
ing model o ideniy climae-vulnerable, low-income communiies. Is Building
esilience Agains Climae Effecs, or BRCE, ramework analyzes and com-
pounds socioeconomic daa and climae projecions o improve public healh
resilience in a changing climae.56 Tese daa underscore he imporance o social
cohesiveness in communiies. For example, he program ound ha when vacan
households in a Philadelphia neighborhood increased 10 percen, he odds o
exreme-hea moraliy grew o 40 percen.57 Tis kind o knowledge can help
local resilience planners undersand he imporance o communiy neworks
during exreme weaher evens. Te program is only available or 18 public healh
agencies, bu i expanded, i could help provide a naional map o climae and
communiy vulnerabiliy o exreme weaher.
Mapping climae and social vulnerabiliy also allows sae and local offices o plan
appropriaely or evacuaions, cooling ceners, or oher exreme weaher disaser
planning. A cohesive communiy can hen help spread he word abou hese lie-
saving disaser plans. Beter ye, i cohesive communiies are included in disaser
planning, i can inorm disaser planners o unique, localized challenges. For
example, i appears ha emergency planners or New Orleans did no realize howmany people could no evacuae in personal vehicles during Hurricane Karina.
Tey have since idenified arge groups and developed specialized evacuaion
plans and ransi opions.58 Mapping economic and climae vulnerable areas and
incorporaing he inpu o hose communiies could help ciies and saes prepare
or calamious climae evens.
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Fostering equity and community resilience
One canno change wha one canno measure. Knowing he geography o income
and climae vulnerabiliy enables governmens o srenghen climae resilience in
boh hard and sof inrasrucure. Improvemens o mass ransporaion, afford-
able housing, and more energy-efficien housing can help buildings and businesses wihsand exreme weaher. Effors o improve he lives o people who live and
work among he hard inrasrucure can help he economic and climae resilience
o an enire communiy. Tese effors should include governmen-suppored social
cohesion hrough building relaionships wih local communiy groups. Tis can
improve rus and communicaion beween governmen eniies and low-income
communiies, which may have experienced hisorical misreamen and disrus
rom auhoriies. Tis improved communicaion can resul in more effecive evacu-
aion communicaions or warnings abou an exreme weaher even. For example,
here are an esimaed 800 differen languages spoken in New York Ciy.59 Te ciy
may no be able o ranslae exreme weaher warnings ino 800 languages. I can,however, work wih culural-based communiy organizaions o disseminae weaher
warnings o non-English-speaking communiies as a orm o climae resilience.
Exising ederal programs work o srenghen communiy resilience as a climae
resilience sraegy, bu hese programs lack srong leverage. For example, FEMA
direcly engages wih communiies hough “PreparAhons,” local evens o help
individuals prepare or climae and oher disasers.60 For maximum impac,
PreparAhons should ideniy obsacles o low-income communiies preparing
or disaser, such as financial and space limiaions ha make i hard or people
o have he money or space o keep exra ood and waer supplies in heir homes.
FEMA should also ensure ha low-income communiies have easy access o he
PreparAhon even hrough public or ree ransi. Finally, he program ocuses on
individuals, bu i should also parner wih low-income communiy organizaions
o develop a cohesive nework or climae and disaser resilience.
In addiion o FEMA’s effors o oser individual climae resilience in low-income
communiies, he U.S. Environmenal Proecion Agency, or EPA, has devel-
oped and is updaing is Environmenal Jusice Acion Agenda, which ocuses on
empowering communiies o improve heir healh and incorporaing environmen-al jusice ino rulemakings and oher ederal acions.61 Curiously, he agenda does
no ocus on climae resilience bu on he EPA’s work o inegrae he needs o low-
income and climae-vulnerable communiies ino ederal planning. Tis acion is a
posiive sep oward increased communiy resilience or low-income areas.
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On a local level, New York Ciy’s recenly released “One New York” susainabil-
iy and resilience plan careully inegraes engaging civic leadership, improving
povery condiions, and srenghening he buil environmen ino is climae
resilience planning.62 Te plan is currenly more o a ramework han a deailed
implemenaion effor, bu i serves as a road map or oher localiies seeking a
vision or climae resilience ha ocuses on boh hard and sof inrasrucure.
Nongovernmen organizaions have also parnered wih low-income communiies
o improve climae resilience. Uiliies in Caliornia have worked wih communiy-
based organizaions or he insallaion o weaherizaion measures in low-income
areas.63 In Minneapolis, a uiliy-sponsored nonprofi worked wih communiy orga-
nizaions, he ederal governmen, and local housing auhoriies o und, insall, and
mainain energy-conserving rerofis. Tis parnership allowed he uiliy o ideniy
he greaes areas o need and maximize unds o improve climae resilience.64
Fosering communiy cohesion in low-income, climae-vulnerable areas can creaeargeed sraegies or climae resilience beore an exreme weaher even. Tis
cohesion can also improve healh and economic oucomes in low-income com-
muniies during an exreme weaher even.
During an extreme weather event: Filling
gaps in the absence of government support
During an exreme weaher even, governmen agencies mus respond o he
emergency needs o a diverse range o affeced areas and communiies. Low-
income communiies are ofen in paricular need o assisance, given he hisoric
inequiies described above. Ideally, communiy leaders will work closely wih
governmens beore an exreme weaher even his o creae a cohesive regional
nework o improve assisance and communicaion, wih a primary ocus on low-
income communiy needs.
Communiy organizaions may be he firs responders o a climae even. Following
Supersorm Sandy, many communiies did no see relie workers or governmen offi-
cials unil days afer he sorm.65
In he absence o governmen officials, communiygroups helped fill he gaps and played a criical supporing role, including locaing
space o disribue supplies and assessing he needs o heir communiies.66 While
some people are orunae o have neighbors who check on one anoher, many are
no as lucky. Organizaions ha build cohesive communiies can help develop per-
sonal relaionships o ideniy hose in need during a climae even.
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Afer he deadly 1995 Chicago hea wave, Pauline Jankowiz, an elderly, mobiliy-
challenged woman who was living alone, noed ha she survived due in par o
her paricipaion wih Litle Brohers - Friends o he Elderly, a communiy-based
nonprofi.67 Te group helps isolaed senior ciizens orm neworks, including
“phone buddies.” 68 When Jankowiz el ill during he hea wave, she called a
phone buddy, who sayed wih her on he phone unil he illness passed.
While communiy-based organizaions can improve he climae resilience o a
low-income communiy, governmens can also help o srenghen social cohesion.
For example, Balimore has held preparedness meeings in 25 o he ciy’s neigh-
borhoods ha are mos vulnerable o hea and flooding.69 A hose meeings, ciy
officials asked residens o ideniy wha hey would need during an emergency.
Officials also provided placards o residens ha can be placed in windows o
indicae he need or help o neighbors and passers-by during an exreme weaher
even. Simple, cos-effecive measures such as hese can reduce aaliies and
encourage communiy members o help each oher. Alice Kennedy, Balimore’ssusainabiliy coordinaor, noed, “Building communiy cohesion … is going o
prepare us or anyhing we ace.”70
After an extreme weather event
Benefits and strategies to retain low-income communities
Afer an exreme weaher even, i is imporan o reain and oser cohesion in
climae and economically vulnerable areas in order o avoid he climae-promped
scatering o a communiy. Tis scatering, also known as climae displacemen,
can have acuely negaive impacs or low-income communiies. Evidence suggess
ha low-income, climae-displaced residens may have a more difficul ime finding
employmen han low-income residens who remain in heir region.71 Displacemen
can exacerbae pre-exising housing and economic insabiliy: One sudy noed ha
severe climae evens end o concenrae low-income communiies ino less desir-
able areas.72 Wihou rused communiy neworks o help negoiae he bureau-
cracy o disaser recovery, low-income vicims o exreme weaher may also receiveewer benefis.73 Social isolaion ollowing displacemen may accoun or increased
levels o menal illness and depression linked o naural disasers.74 Domesic climae
migraion can also creae civic ension as hos communiies inegrae hose who are
climae displaced ino schools, neighborhoods, and ciy services.
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Climae displacemen is no o be conused wih evacuaion. Evacuaion affecs
people o all demographics and consiss o a emporary removal o people.
Climae-displaced people, paricularly hose wihou srong social neworks, can
find hemselves living ar rom homeand saying here.75 Climae displace-
men ears he social abric o communiies, depriving residens o he benefis o
low-income-communiy cohesion. Tus, long-erm displacemen should be a lasopion or low-income communiies.
Communiy-based organizaions can help srenghen he low-income-communiy
resilience needed o avoid displacemen. For example, ollowing Supersorm
Sandy, local housing and youh empowermen organizaions were able o survey
needs, communicae hose needs o governmen saff, and coordinae wih oher
organizaions.76 Tese acions helped serve low-income areas in he communiy,
reducing he need or climae displacemen. Faih-based organizaions can also
help low-income communiies o recover and residens o remain in heir general
area by offering a nework o assisance. Caholic Chariies o he Archdioceseo New York housed more han 1,000 homeless people and organized voluneer
effors wihin days o he sorm.77 By relying on cohesive neworks and ideniying
needs wihin low-income communiies, hese organizaions helped improve he
cohesiveness and resilience o low-income residens.
Tere are ederal programs o srenghen he cohesiveness o low-income com-
muniies afer an exreme weaher even. Much o FEMA’s suppor is direced o
individuals or public services and inrasrucure,78 bu he agency also developed a
whole-communiy approach o emergency managemen policies ha osers com-
muniy involvemen.79 I has resuled in engagemen wih communiy nongovern-
menal leaders and sae agencies o deermine he unique needs o communiies
in emergency siuaions, wih promising resuls. Tis ineracion wih local
communiies allows FEMA o ailor is responsiveness o minimize disrupions o
low-income and oher communiies.
FEMA is no he only ederal agency o oser pos-disaser communiy cohesion
as climae resilience. Presiden Barack Obama creaed he Whie House Office o
Faih-based and Neighborhood Parnerships80 and coninued he U.S. Deparmen
o Homeland Securiy, or DHS, Cener or Faih-based and NeighborhoodParnerships,81 which links he DHS wih communiy-based groups o address
disaser response. Tese policies could reduce risks in low-income, climae-vulner-
able neighborhoods by offering localized soluions o communiy needs. However,
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hese effors can be improved. Te whole-communiy approach asks localiies o
ake he firs seps in ineracing wih he ederal governmen. Tis may no be a pri-
oriy in low-income communiies, so or bes resuls, FEMA should work wih sae
agencies o ideniy and conduc oureach o vulnerable populaions.
Tere are also ciy and sae effors o minimize climae displacemen and improveclimae resilience. Afer Supersorm Sandy, New York Ciy began a program called
apid epairs. Te program was mean o help people remain in heir homes by
hiring conracors o resore hea, elecriciy, and ho waer o housands o homes
quickly.82 I also helped avoid spending resources on emporary housing. apid
epairs had some success. In less han 100 days, he program resored hea, power,
and ho waer service o more han 11,700 buildings.83 Te program also priori-
ized low-income applicans afer discovering ha previous aid-based assisance
programs ofen disproporionaely rewarded higher-income households because
hey ended o have beter documenaion.84 Te ederally unded sae program
New York ising also sough o rehabiliae low-income communiies aferSupersorm Sandy by offering echnical assisance and working wih local com-
muniy groups.85 New York ising engages communiies o help hem reain heir
social bonds in he even o exreme weaher. Te program developed an exensive
planning process wih voluneers and civic leaders and solicied public engage-
men direcly wihin communiies in a leas wo languages.86 Tese programs
offer some guidance or saes and ciies ha wish o promoe climae resilience by
resoring low-income communiies.
Afer an exreme weaher even, i is imporan o resore he cohesiveness o low-
income communiies. Tis can avoid he negaive aspecs o climae displacemen
such as reduced income or los benefis. Saes and localiies should develop pos-
disaser policies argeed oward low-income communiies in order o improve
climae resilience plans and he lives o low-income residens.
Assisting climate displaced communities
Climae displacemen has specifically negaive implicaions or low-income
communiies. Ye here may be insances in which low-income residens mayhave litle choice bu o leave. And as he number and inensiy o exreme
weaher evens increase,87 low-income communiies will progressively sruggle
wih he hrea o displacemen.
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Climae displacemen has long been considered an imporan issue in he inerna-
ional climae communiy. Te U.N. High Commissioner or eugees repored
ha 36 million people were displaced by naural disasers in 2008 alone.88 Te
U.N. Framework Convenion on Climae Change predics ha he number o cli-
mae migrans will climb o 200 million by he year 2050.89 Ye litle has been done
o predic or sudy he climae displacemen wihin he Unied Saes. However,here is one insance o domesic climae migraion ha illusraes he policy
implicaions o communiy cohesiveness and climae displacemen: he massive
displacemen o people in he wake o Hurricane Karina.
Hurricane Karina spurred a hasy exodus o approximaely 1.5 million people
rom Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.90 Tis move was likened o he enire
Dus Bowl migraion o he 1930sbu compressed rom eigh years ino 14
days.91 People migraed ar and wide. Only 25 percen o Karina evacuees relo-
caed wihin a 10-mile radius rom heir previous couny o residence; anoher 25
percen relocaed more han 450 miles away; and 10 percen relocaed o areas aleas 830 miles away.92 Afer Hurricane Karina, exas ook in an esimaed 250,000
evacuees; he populaion o Baon ouge, Louisiana, nearly doubled; and 100,000
evacuees arrived in Alanamany o whom sayed in heir new locaions.93
Despie his widespread movemen, one lower-income, Karina-displaced com-
muniy managed o reain is cohesion and urn communiy resilience ino climae
resilience. An esimaed 9,000 people o Vienamese heriagea lower-income
bu highly cohesive communiywere displaced in Houson, exas, afer he
hurricane.94 When hey arrived, he Houson Vienamese communiy largely
absorbed he needs o hose who were displaced.95
Te cohesive Houson Vienamese communiy was able o organize oureach,
relie, and supplies. A Houson shopping mall ha caered o he Vienamese
communiy served as a saging area and cooling cener or hose who were cli-
mae displaced, and a Vienamese radio saion began organizing relie effors.96
Vienamese Caholic churches in exas ook in roughly 400 people.97 Tis social
cohesion also enabled many Vienamese people rom New Orleans o reurn
home. wo years afer he hurricane, an esimaed 90 percen o New Orleans’
Vienamese populaion reurned.98
Te resilience o he Vienamese communiy was made possible by is pre-exising cohesiveness and improved by regional ne-
works o similarly cohesive communiies.
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Social cohesion also exised in oher low-income communiies in New Orleans
beore Karina.99 Upon arrival in Houson, however, some local residens per-
ceived he evacuees as a cause o social srain. Houson Mayor Annise Parker
noed, “Te lowes social sraa here el he evacuees cu in line. Tere was he
percepion o an increase in crime and a big increase in homicides among evacu-
ees.”100
One sudy o Houson atiudes oward evacuees showed disinc hosiliyand racism oward people who were displaced by Hurricane Karina.101
Developing srong communiy cohesion beore an exreme weaher even can
help improve climae resilience, even when communiies are hreaened by
climae displacemen. Saes and ederal agencies should work wih local lead-
ers o creae and suppor naional neworks o socially cohesive communiies in
order o improve he oucomes and coss o climae displacemen. Tese coss
can run high: Houson, which ook in he highes number o Karina evacuees,102
experienced an increased need or healh services.103 Te ciy received almos $14
million in addiional educaion unding104 and $429 million in emergency undingor low-income housing.105 Direcing unds ino communiy cohesion policies can
improve climae resilience and reduce he public coss o exreme weaher.
Karina evacuees may be one o he larges climae-displaced groups in modern
U.S. hisory, bu evacuaions ha can lead o climae displacemen are no unusual.
In he pas five years, exreme weaher has affeced he ollowing communiies:
• 10,000 people in ennessee were displaced by flooding in 2010.106 • More han 12,000 people in Mino, Norh Dakoa, were orced o evacuae due
o flooding in 2011.107
• Supersorm Sandy displaced an esimaed 10,000 people o 40,000 people in
New York and New Jersey alone in 2012.108 • More han 11,000 people were evacuaed due o flooding in Colorado in 2013.109
• Tousands o people were orced o evacuae rom wildfires in Caliornia110 and
Washingon111 in 2014.
Tese and oher climae displacemens have especially adverse effecs or low-
income communiies, bu hey also affec a wide range o socioeconomic groups
hroughou he counry. Proecing hese communiies by supporing socialcohesion can help preven long-erm displacemen and improve resilience agains
exreme weaher or everyone and every place.
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Social cohesion maximizes post-extreme-weather buyouts and relocation
Social cohesiveness helps low-income communiies reurn home afer climae
displacemen. I also helps hem become whole i communiy members choose o
demolish heir homes in exchange or volunary governmen-sponsored buy-
ous. Some communiies are repeaedly exposed o desrucive flooding or areso vulnerable o sea-level rise ha hey may need o reurn o heir naural orm.
Volunary coasal buyou programs have emerged as a soluion o his dilemma.
Te programsalso called coasal rerea measures, managed rerea, or cosal
buybacksare bes defined as governmen compensaion or privae propery in
exchange or he righ o mainain he land in an undeveloped sae in perpeu-
iy.112 As a resul, volunary buyou programs can improve he climae resilience
o a greaer coasal area by allowing naural land o absorb he brun o flooding.
Boh he U.S. Deparmen o Agriculure and FEMA enable owners o flood-
prone propery o paricipae in buyou programs.113 While volunary buyous
may no be a climae resilience policy or he affeced homeowners, hey ensureregional climae resilience agains rising waers.
Ye volunary buyous can be an imperec ool or climae resilience. I applied
only o upscale coasal areas, hey can direc limied unds o luxury or vacaion
housing and leave lower-income areas wihou a lieline o escape a reoccurring
flood zone. On he oher hand, direcing volunary buyous oward low-income
areas can break apar communiies by weakening relaionships wih neighbors
and reducing paricipaion in area-based civic and social aciviies such as rec-
reaion ceners, youh or housing ceners, and aih-based organizaions. People
who mus begin a new lie elsewhere wihou hese known social suppors can
find hemselves sruggling, making communiies less resilien overall. However,
volunary buyou programs can be designed o enhance communiy cohesiveness.
For example, New York ising offers ull reimbursemen o a home’s air marke
value.114 Tis offer can give flood vicims an opporuniy o live elsewhere wih-
ou grea financial burden. Te program also includes a communiy inegraion
incenivea 5 percen incenive paymeni program beneficiaries permanenly
relocae in New York Ciy. Tis provision can preven ar-flung climae displace-
men and signals governmen suppor o reain local communiies.
Communiy cohesiveness also benefis hose seeking buyous. Volunary buyou
programs are more effecive i hey are coniguous. Tus, i a group o home-
owners agrees o paricipae in a volunary buyou program, hey may be more
likely o receive ederal buyou unds han a pachwork array o individuals.115
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Te New York ising program incenivizes collecive buyou agreemens; he
program offers a 10 percen enhanced buyou incenive or a maximum level
o homeowner paricipaion and a 10 percen incenive or coniguous groups
ha apply or buyous.116 Tese provisions benefi cohesive communiies. For
example, communiy cohesiveness helped he residens o Oak Beach, New
York, receive buyou unds. Te area was home o he Flood Vicims o 1992Commitee, which was able o mobilize he communiy o accep buyous afer
Supersorm Sandy.117
Buyou programs can ail i hey do no have cohesive communiy suppor. Afer
Hurricane Karina, he Army Corps o Engineers proposed a volunary buyou
program or 17,000 residenial properies wo years afer he sorm. Objecions
rom local officials and residens reduced he number o properies o 3,000. Al
Naomi, a projec manager or he program, noed ha hey sill mus work wih
local sakeholders “o ge a sense o wha’s implemenable and wha isn’.” 118 I he
Army Corps o Engineers had buil relaionships wih communiy-based organiza-ions ocused on cohesiveness beore announcing is plan, he buyou program
may have had greaer success.
Relocating entire communities
As exreme weaher and sea-level rise begin o hreaen enire communiies
in Alaska, communiy relocaion has emerged as a poenial mehod o com-
muniy and climae resilience or Alaska Naive communiies, many o which
are low income and lack basic waer and saniaion services.119 epors by he
Governmen Accounabiliy Office, or GAO, ound ha 86 percen o he 213
Alaska Naive villages and owns are experiencing erosion and flooding due o
rising emperaures and 15 percen, or 31 owns, are imminenly hreaened by
climae change.120 Federal and sae governmens have begun o consider he
implicaions o moving enire communiies, bu here are considerable coss and
land-use planning issues. Te cos o relocaing Alaska Naive owns, which have
populaions ranging rom 354 people in Newok o 96 people in Koyukuk,121
could be beween $130 million122 and $180 million or each own.123 I is no
simple, or hisorically jus, o ask hese communiies o move hemselves. Many ohese areas are home o Alaska Naive communiies because he ederal govern-
men insiued policies o consolidae Alaska Naive groups in cerain places
along he coas.124 Te expense o relocaion is high, paricularly on a per-person
basis, bu i would preserve Alaska Naive communiies, heir culure, and heir
resilience o a changing climae.
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While he hisory o Alaska Naive communiies may be unique, eroding coasline
communiies are no. ide measuremens aken by NOAA show ha sea levels
along he Easern Seaboard range rom 10 inches o 15 inches higher oday ha
hey were 100 years ago.125 Tese areas represen 39 percen o he U.S. popula-
ion,126 and coasline counies conribued 45 percen o he counry ’s enire gross
domesic produc in 2011.127
As exreme weaher hreaens communiies hrough-ou he Unied Saes, here is an increased risk o climae displacemen among all
economic levels. Tis risk urher limis he climae resilience o low-income com-
muniies, which may find hemselves in greaer compeiion or affordable housing
and employmen. Supporing communiy cohesion srenghens he resilience o
all communiies, bu i is paricularly imporan wihin low-income areas and can
improve he climae resilience oucomes o displacemen or relocaion.
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Recommendations to foster
climate and social resilience
• Sae, local, and ederal governmens can address hisoric inequiies beore
disaser srikes by improving he qualiy and availabiliy o affordable housing,
invesing in urban inrasrucure improvemens, and expanding access o public
ransporaion ha helps people escape exreme weaher evens and improve
access o employmen.
• Policymakers canno change wha is no measured. o reduce vulnerabiliy and
increase resilience in low-income communiies, he ederal governmen shoulduse is cross-agency daa o creae a social and climae vulnerabiliy index. Tis
daa would also help climae resilience and emergency preparedness planners
undersand where and how o ocus resources.
• Once climae and economically vulnerable communiies are locaed, ederal, sae,
and local governmens should seek o ideniy and build rus wih eleced and
civic leaders o hese areas hrough he social and climae vulnerabiliy index.
• Saes and local agencies should oser leadership wihin low-income com-
muniies by supporing communiy engagemen programs. Tis suppor could
be financial or simply open a line o communicaion o help share inormaion
abou exreme weaher evens. Tese relaionships can help inorm low-income
communiies abou preparedness beore exreme weaher occurs.
• In order o increase climae resilience, ederal and sae governmens can expand
he resources available o weaherize low-income housing o preven he wors
impacs o exreme weaher.
• Governmen policies should atemp o reduce climae displacemen andincrease economic sabiliy in low-income areas by developing policies ha
prioriize pos-exreme-weaher repairs in low-income areas and work wih local
communiies o undersand where repairs may have he greaes impac.
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• Te ederal governmen should sudy domesic climae migraion o improve
disaser planning and minimize he economic and social impacs o climae
displacemen on low-income displaced people and heir hos communiies.
Fosering social cohesion beore an exreme weaher even may help reduce he
risksand cosso mass climae migraion.
• I exreme weaher orces people or communiies o relocae, volunary buyou
programs should include incenives o keep communiies wihin a geographic
radius in order o promoe social cohesion. Communiy relocaion programs
should be designed wih communiies, no simply or hem, and should have a
goal o improving boh economic and climae resilience.
Federal execuive acion could implemen some o hese recommendaions.
Specifically, he presiden’s November 2014 Execuive Order on Preparing he
Unied Saes or he Impacs o Climae Change acknowledges low-income
amilies’ vulnerabiliy o he effecs o climae change.128 Te presiden could issuea policy direcive calling on agencies o help increase climae resilience by promo-
ing communiy parnerships in low-income areas. Such a direcive should also
ensure ha agencies are conducing oureach o low-income communiies abou
he impacs o exreme weaher using communicaion mehods, languages, and
ools ha are accessible o diverse racial, ehnic, and geographic communiies.
Finally, he ederal governmen should incenivize organizaion or ciy neworks
ha can oser cohesiveness wihin and beween low-income communiies. Tese
acions canno supplan he need or ederal acion on climae change or ederal
unding or disaser relie. However, by creaing communiy cohesion, hese
acions would srenghen communiy resilience.
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Conclusion
Low-income communiies are paricularly vulnerable o he economic, healh,
and housing deprivaions o increasing exreme weaher. Promoing social
cohesion in hese communiies is an imporan bu ofen overlooked ool in
improving heir climae resilience. Mapping climae and socioeconomic vulner-
abiliy can help direc resources oward oureach effors, nework building, and
communiy-based iniiaives ha promoe social cohesion in communiies,
which in urn osers climae resilience.
Encouraging social cohesion in low-income communiies can help hem be beter
inormed abou climae readiness and allow hem o more ably advocae or ben-
eficial weaherizaion and preparedness measures beore exreme weaher srikes.
During exreme weaher evens, socially cohesive communiies are beter able o
relay needs and ideniy risks o he appropriae agencies or larger organizaions.
Afer exreme weaher evens, socially cohesive communiies are beter posiioned
o advocae or relie and reurn o heir pre-disaser lives.
Governmen agencies should suppor communiy cohesion as an equiable
climae resilience sraegy. Agencies can do his by developing relaionships
wih low-income communiies and helping o build neworks ha connec
hese communiies wih exising low-income cohesive communiies. Agencies
should sudy and minimize low-income climae displacemen o undersand is
requency, is geography, and bes pracices o lessen he negaive impacs on
displaced people and hos communiies.
Finally, agencies should develop equiable pos-disaser unding programs ha
improve oucomes or low-income communiies. Trough hese acions, social
cohesion can creae climae resilience ha benefis he hard inrasrucure o buildings and he sof inrasrucure o he people ha live in hem.
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About the author
Danielle Baussan is he Managing Direcor o Energy Policy a he Cener or
American Progress. Prior o his role, she was majoriy counsel on he U.S. House
o epresenaives Selec Commitee on Energy Independence and Global
Warming. She also served he Disric o Columbia Governmen as a capial ciyellow, a policy analys in he Execuive Office o he Mayor, and as direcor o
governmen relaions or he Anacosia Waerron Corporaion, a susainable
economic developmen organizaion commited o underserved areas. She is a
graduae o ugers Universiy and he Universiy o Virginia School o Law.
Acknowledgments
Special hanks o Cahleen Kelly, Senior Fellow wih he Energy Policy eam a
he Cener or American Progress; Miranda Peerson, esearch Associae wih heEnergy Policy eam; and Alex Fields, inern wih he Energy Policy eam.
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Endnotes
1 National Weather Service, Heat: A Major Killer (U.S.Department of Commerce, 2014).
2 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,Natural Disaster Survey Report: July 1995 Heat Wave (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1995). Epidemiologists
estimated the number of people who died due to theweather was higher than during a typical week forthat month—739 more Chicagoans died during theweeks of July 14 and July 20. See Eric Klinenberg, HeatWave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 2002).
3 Klinenberg, Heat Wave; Eric Klinenberg, “Adaptation:How can cities be ‘climate-proofed’?”, The New Yorker,January 7, 2013, available at http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/07/adaptation-2.
4 Tracey Ross, “The Three Factors That Put Lower-Income Americans At Risk From Extreme Weather,”
ThinkProgress, August 19, 2013, available at http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/08/19/2491681/low-income-extreme-weather.
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