On November 2nd, 2023, the ECOS Environmental Justice (EJ) Workgroup and Esri hosted a joint workshop covering strategies for developing state EJ mapping tools, facilitating EJ screenings and participating in successful community engagement practices. The workshop included a presentation from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection on the creation of New Jersey’s EJMAP tool, as well as a tutorial from Esri on ArcGIS’s “Calculate Composite Index” tool and creating an environmental justice index.
The workshop recording is available below:
Thank you to Sunny Fleming and Niki Wong of Esri, as well as Christine Schell from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, for sharing their expertise with the ECOS EJ Workgroup.