1. The Imperative for Intentional Integration of
Equity and Justice in
Adaptation Planning

2.  Defining Human and Civil Rights
 Shifts in Agricultural Yields
 Sea Level Rise
 Salt Water Incursion
 Disappearing Shorelines/Communities
 Extreme Weather
 Vulnerability
 Access
 Response
 Ability to Recover
 Second Wave Assaults
Differentially Impacted Populations

3.  Sea Level Rise—Storm Surge
 Extreme Weather Events
 Shifts in Agricultural Yields

4. HUMAN RIGHTS
 Right to Self Determination
 Right to Safe and Healthy Work Conditions
 Right to Highest Standard of Physical and Mental Health
 Right to Food
 Right to a Decent Living Condition
 Equal Rights Between Men and Women
 Right of Youth and Children to be Free From Exploitation
CIVIL RIGHTS
 Ensuring peoples' physical integrity and safety.
 Protection from discrimination on grounds such as gender,
religion, race, sexual orientation, national origin, age,
immigrant status, etc.
 Equal access to health care, education, culture, etc.

8. ACCESS IN JERSEY CITY PERI-URBAN ACCESS IN MD

9. CORNER STORE SUPERMARKET

16.  Political Power
 Community Infrastructure
 Economic Status
 Under Insurance
 Poor Housing Stock
 Flood Plain
 Pre-Existing Health Conditions
 Immigration Status
 Incarceration History
 Gendered Differentials
 Ableism
 Language Access

24.  Women disproportionately poor and thus
already predisposed to insecurity and
displacement
 Health impacts—and shift in family roles
 Livelihood and right to home/return
 Violence Against Women

25.  Non-Dominant Culture
 Immigration Status
 Differently Abled
 Language

38. Jacqui Patterson
Director, Environmental and Climate Justice
jpatterson@naacpnet.org
443-465-9809