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Building Community Wealth through Community Resilience

by Johanna Bozuwa and Thomas Hanna

If climate planning efforts do not take concerns around equity, justice, and power into consideration during implementation, they have the potential to further segregate U.S. cities; contribute to widening economic, social, and health inequality; and even, in the extreme, create wealthy, ecological enclaves disconnected from the rest of society.

Publication date: 2019-10-17
Parent publication: Community Development Innovation Review
Publication URL: https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/building-community-wealth-through-community-resilience/
by Johanna Bozuwa and Thomas Hanna

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