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New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Waterfront Justice Project

Bautista, Eddie, Hanhardt, Eva, Osorio, Juan Camilo, Dwyer, Natasha·2015·Local Environment
DOI 10.1080/13549839.2014.949644
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This paper reviews key challenges and opportunities addressed by the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance's (NYC-EJA) Waterfront Justice Project, a citywide campaign to promote climate resilience and sustainability in urban industrial waterfront communities of New York City. NYC-EJA is a non-profit membership-driven network linking grassroots organisations from low-income neighbourhoods and communities of colour in their struggle for environmental justice. The Waterfront Justice Project is documenting community vulnerability in the context of climate change impacts, sources of industrial pollution, and demographic and socio-economic trends. This campaign is enabling community-based organisations, environmental justice communities, city planners, local and state government agencies, local business-owners, and other stakeholders to work in partnership to achieve community resilience while advocating for local jobs and promoting best practices in pollution prevention. New York City's waterfront policies ease the siting and clustering of public infrastructure, water pollution control plants, waste transfer stations, energy facilities, and heavy manufacturing uses in six areas designated as Significant Maritime and Industrial Areas (SMIAs). The SMIAs are located in environmental justice communities, largely low-income communities and communities of colour, in the South Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. New York City's local waterfront land use and zoning policies create cumulative risk exposure not only to residents and workers in the host waterfront communities, but also, in the event of storm surge or sea-level rise, to neighbouring, upland communities.

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  • The traditional definition of displacement has not included the ways that climate impacts and adaptations can contribute to displacement of vulnerable populations, including bluelining and decreasing health conditions associated with climate hazards.

    “This definition has traditionally not included the ways that climate impacts and adaptations can contribute to displacement of vulnerable populations, 173,222,223,[249][250][251] including bluelining, 252 and decreasing health conditions associated with climate hazards, such as flooding or heatwaves.248”

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Authors
Bautista, E., Hanhardt, E., Osorio, J. C., & Dwyer, N.
Affiliations
Pratt Institute (US)
Corresponding author
Osorio, Juan Camilo
ORCID
Venue
Local Environment
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2014-10
Volume
20
Issue
6
Pages
664-682
ISSN
  • 1354-9839 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-6711
DOI
10.1080/13549839.2014.949644
OpenAlex
W2169391254
Cited by
28
References
24
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2
FWCI
6.51
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Local Environment (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Planning and Governance
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Coastal and Marine Management
Keywords
environmental justice, urban waterfront, climate resilience, industrial pollution, community vulnerability, communities of color, low-income communities, pollution prevention, sea level rise, storm surge, community organizations, New York City, South Bronx, Brooklyn, queens, Staten Island

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