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The Nature Gap' <br />Clean drinking water, clean air, public parks, biodiversity, and open spaces <br />are shared goods to which every person in the United States has an equal <br />right. Nature is supposed to be a "great equalizer" whose services are <br />free, universal, and accessible to all humans without discrimination. In <br />reality, however, American society distributes nature's benefits —and the <br />effects of its destruction and decline —unequally by race, income, and age. <br />Communities of color are three times more likely than <br />white communities to live in nature -deprived places. <br />Seventy-four percent of communities of color in the contiguous United <br />States live in nature -deprived areas, compared with just 23 percent of <br />white communities. <br />Seventy percent of low-income communities across the <br />country live in nature deprived areas. This figure is 20 percent <br />higher than the figure for those with moderate or high incomes. <br />Nature destruction has had the largest impact on low- <br />income communities of color. More than 76 percent of people who <br />live in low-income communities of color live in nature -deprived places. <br />Nature deprivation has consequences. The communities that are <br />shouldering more of the impacts and costs of nature destruction are also <br />receiving less of nature's benefits, including air and water purification, <br />climate mitigation, biodiversity and disease control, and opportunities for <br />leisure and recreation. <br />' Rowland -Shea, Jenny. The Nature Gap: Confronting Racial and Economic Disparities in the <br />Destruction and Protection of Nature in America, 2020. <br />CALENVIRCISCREEN 4.0 <br />An environmental justice community is an area where residents have the highest risk of <br />exposure to pollution (in the air, water, and soil). Residents in these areas also tend to be <br />burdened by socioeconomic and health issues, such as higher rates of language barriers, <br />poverty, asthma, etc. These areas also tend to experience lower rates of investment and <br />improvements. All of these factors can lead to unequal opportunities. <br />To address the cumulative effects of both pollution burden and population characteristic <br />factors, and to identify which communities might be in need of policy, investment, or <br />programmatic interventions, the City of Santa Ana as part of their General Plan used a <br />mapping tool from CalEPA (CalEnviroScreen, Version 4.0) to identify the most vulnerable <br />and disadvantaged areas. The CES tool measures 21 indicators for every census tract in <br />California. The results for each census tract are combined and measured against every <br />other census tract, producing a composite score that ranks census tracts from the least <br />impacted to the most impacted. Those ranked in the top 25 percent —with values between <br />75 and 100 percent —are considered disadvantaqed or environmental justice communities. <br />aSANTA ANA PARKS MASTER PLAN CHAPTER 4: PARK ACCESS, EQUITY AND OPPORTUNITIES a <br />
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