DESIGNING NOVEL APPROACHES TO MAP IMPLICIT BENEFITS OF INVESTMENTS IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES

The long-term goal of the proposed project is to design novel approaches to map benefits from, and challenges to, publicly-funded programs in aggregate as they are perceived across scale of operations and type of population.The supporting objectives are to:Evaluate existing geospatial models and other models of investment streams as a direct measure of benefits from public research funding on underserved communities.Elicit information on multiple dimensions of the implicit benefits from research investments on underserved communities.Develop a novel approach that leverages and complements existing geospatial models for environmental justice.Test, validate, and improve the platform for investment assessment on environmental justice.