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<p>With global warming amplifying the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events, flood risk from levee failures is significantly increasing and disproportionately affecting historically marginalized communities. This study aims to develop a comprehensive framework that integrates the assessment of risks from levee failures and the experience of vulnerable communities in the context of climate adaptation with principles of environmental justice, using the March 2023 flood in Pajaro, California, as a case study. Building on a spatial analysis of geographic, historic, and socioeconomic factors as well as interviews with residents, we develop a broader relational environmental justice framework highlighting disproportionate flood risks faced by historically marginalized communities living behind aging levees in an era of climate change. This framework elucidates how community identities shape their experiences with levee failures, flooding, and recovery efforts. Integrating human dignity with procedural justice and integrated ecological approaches, the framework calls for participatory risk assessments and adaptation strategies that consider lived experiences, human dignity, historical inequities, and ecological sustainability to align approaches to climate resilience with moral commitments to equity.</p>

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A multidisciplinary approach to understanding vulnerability and building climate resilience to levee failures and flooding in historically marginalized communities

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    2025年11月22日

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  • Rocio L. Segura,
  • Iris T. Stewart,
  • David E. DeCosse,
  • Emma R. Young,
  • Sarah T. Young,
  • Petti Tatum,
  • Karina M. Martin,
  • Anna N. Krebs

摘要

With global warming amplifying the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events, flood risk from levee failures is significantly increasing and disproportionately affecting historically marginalized communities. This study aims to develop a comprehensive framework that integrates the assessment of risks from levee failures and the experience of vulnerable communities in the context of climate adaptation with principles of environmental justice, using the March 2023 flood in Pajaro, California, as a case study. Building on a spatial analysis of geographic, historic, and socioeconomic factors as well as interviews with residents, we develop a broader relational environmental justice framework highlighting disproportionate flood risks faced by historically marginalized communities living behind aging levees in an era of climate change. This framework elucidates how community identities shape their experiences with levee failures, flooding, and recovery efforts. Integrating human dignity with procedural justice and integrated ecological approaches, the framework calls for participatory risk assessments and adaptation strategies that consider lived experiences, human dignity, historical inequities, and ecological sustainability to align approaches to climate resilience with moral commitments to equity.