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Redlining was a racist, legal practice and its impacts are measurable in terms of environmental variables in US cities today. This resource examines redlining, urban environments, and climate change.
Hoffman 2020.pdf(PDF | 2 MB)
Redlining and Climate -Pre-class readings.docx(DOCX | 18 KB)- Redlining and Climate Change Worksheet.docx(DOCX | 2 MB)
- Urban Greenspace Design Competition Activity.docx(DOCX | 10 KB)
- Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: A Short History | NPR - YouTube
- Planting Trees Can Combat Effects Of Urban Heat Island, Climate Change : NPR
- Studies Find Redlining Linked To More Heat, Fewer Trees In Cities Nationwide : NPR
- https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=5/37.8/-97.9
- https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=8b6ba2620ac5407ea7ecfb4359132ee4
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Redlining and Climate Change is a resource that can be done completely remotely and was adapted in April 2020 for two classes taught post-COVID.
The introductory resources and readings focus on defining redlining and the impacts of urban tree canopy cover on mitigating temperatures. These can be assigned in addition to a short lecture on how urban ecological systems work and the drivers of urban heat island effect.
The worksheet is based around a few resources, including Hoffman et al. 2020, a paper that shows trends in impervious surface cover, land surface temperature, and canopy cover in cities that were historically redlined in the US. It has students interpret findings, write a plain language abstract, and also explore redlining and inequity in highway building in the Twin Cities.
Finally, there is an optional extension of the activity to include a more 'solutions-driven' perspective, where students work individually or in small teams to develop a 'bid' to create greenspace in a historically red-lined neighborhood to promote environmental justice and mitigate the impacts of climate change in the neighborhood.
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Tamara Basham @ on (Edited: @ on )
This activity is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you for sharing it! I'll let you know how it goes with my Environmental Science Course this Fall.
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Mary Heskel @ on
Great to hear! It is imperfect, so looking forward to seeing how it gets adapted and improved over time with many people using it. Let me know how it goes - I think it was eye-opening for many ecology students.
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Tamara Basham @ on
Mary,
I just posted the resource that your work inspired as an adaptation of your work. I took it in a different direction - focusing on tree cover. Thanks again. I used several of your resources and some of your discussion ideas.
Best regards,
Tamara
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Mary Heskel @ on
That sounds great - thank you for letting me know. There have been so many related publications and media pieces on this topic in the past year - I'll have to update as well. It could easily be a week-long unit or more for different EnvSci/Ecology classes.
Mary
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