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Public Review Draft <br />Page vi San Leandro 2021 Climate Action Plan <br />Glossary <br />Adaptation: Making changes in response to current or future conditions (such as the increased <br />frequency and intensity of climate-related hazards), usually to reduce harm and to take advantage <br />of new opportunities.1, 2 <br />Adaptive Capacity: The “combination of the strengths, attributes, and resources available to an <br />individual, community, society, or organization that can be used to prepare for and undertake <br />actions to reduce adverse impacts, moderate harm, or exploit beneficial opportunities.”3 <br />Climate Change: A change in the state of the climate that can be identified by changes in the mean <br />and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or <br />longer. <br />Climate Justice: The concept that no group of people should disproportionately bear the burden <br />of climate impacts or the costs of mitigation and adaptation.4 <br />Community Asset: A valued feature of a community that may be harmed by climate change. <br />Community assets may include buildings, infrastructure, community services, ecosystems, and <br />economic drivers. <br />Disadvantaged Communities: Areas disproportionately affected by environmental pollution and <br />other hazards that can lead to negative public health effects, exposure, or environmental <br />degradation, or with concentrations of people that are of low income, high unemployment, low levels <br />of homeownership, high rent burden, sensitive populations, or low levels of educational attainment. <br />Criteria are determined by California legislation.5,6 <br />Equality: The state in which each individual or group of people is given the same resources or <br />opportunities.7 <br />Equity: The state in which each individual or group is allocated the resources needed to reach an <br />equal outcome.8 <br />Exposure: The presence of people, infrastructure, natural systems, and economic, cultural, and <br />social resources in areas that are subject to harm.9 <br />Extreme Event: When a weather or climate variable exceeds the upper or lower thresholds of its <br />observed range.10, 11 <br />Frontline Communities: Term used by communities to self-identify as places that experience the <br />impacts of issues such as environmental pollution, climate change, and the economic crisis first <br />and most severely. These communities are most often communities of color and low income.12 <br />Hazard: An event or physical condition that has the potential to cause fatalities, injuries, property <br />damage, infrastructure damage, agricultural losses, damage to the environment, interruption of <br />business, or other types of harm or loss.13 <br />38