Economic displacement
The process by which existing businesses or workers are forced to relocate due to rising costs, development pressures or other economic changes, often accelerated by major infrastructure investments. (Source: Toolkit project team definition)
Emergency event
A major incident that may or may not be accompanied by advance notice and may necessitate a partial or complete evacuation of an area. Transit agencies often play a significant role in evacuations caused by emergency events, particularly in moving people with special needs and people who do not have cars. (Source: Adapted from the […]
Empathy
The practice of acknowledging and understanding another’s perspective. (Source: Toolkit project team definition)
Environmental hazard
Substances or nuisances in external surroundings that are adversary to health. (Source: Toolkit project team definition)
Environmental health
Access to clean air, a stable climate, a preserved natural environment and adequate water, sanitation and hygiene. Environmental health also requires protection from harmful radiation, unsafe chemical management and unhealthy working conditions. (Source: World Health Organization, Environmental Health, Transportation Research Synthesis)
Environmental justice
Fairness, regardless of race, color, national origin or income, and the meaningful involvement of community in the development of laws and regulations that affect every community’s natural surroundings, and the places people live, work, play and learn. (Source: California Environmental Protection Agency)
Environmental justice gap
Refers to how low-income communities of color systematically experience disproportionately greater adverse environmental risks and impacts, and fewer positive environmental benefits compared to high income communities. (Source: Callahan, DeShazo, and Kenyon, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs)
Equality
The idea that law and government should treat people the same irrespective of their identity or status. (Source: Othering & Belonging Institute)
Equality of outcomes
Outcomes where everyone has equal opportunity, access and rights. (Source: LA Metro Office of Equity and Race definition)
Equity
Refers to both an outcome and a process to address racial, socioeconomic, and gender disparities, to ensure fair and just access with respect to where you begin and your capacity to improve from that starting point to opportunities, including jobs, housing, education, mobility options and healthier communities. It is achieved when one’s outcomes in life […]